Mr. W A F E RV Voyages 3 Sec. i 

 ved as dry and light as a Spunge or piece 

 of Cork. " After we had been fome time a- 

 (hore we efpyed a Smoak $ and making up 

 to it, found an old Man, a Spanijh Indian , 

 who was ranging along the Sea-fide, to find 

 fome dried Sea-weeds, to drefs fome Fifii 

 which his Company had caught 5 for he be- 

 longed to a Fiftiing Boat hard by. We 

 asked him many Queftions, in Spamjh, 

 about the Place, and how thofe dead Bo- 

 dies came there > To which he returned 

 for anfwer, That in his Father's time the 

 Soil there, which now yielded nothing, 

 was green, well-cultivated and fruitful : 

 That the City of Wormia had been well 

 inhabited with Indians : And v that they 

 were fo numerous, that they could have 

 handed a FiOi, from Hand to Stand, 20 

 Leagues from the Sea, until it had come 

 to the Ringor Touch's Hand : That the River 

 was very deep, and the Current ftrong : 

 And that theReafon of thofe dead Bodies 1 

 was, That when the Spaniards came, and % 

 block'd up and lay'd Siege to the City, the 

 Indians rather than lie at the Spaniards 

 Mercy, dug Holes in the Sand, and buried 

 themfelves alive. The Men as they now 

 lie, have with them their broken Bows 5 

 and the Women their Spinning-wheels, 

 and Diftaffs with Cotton-yarn upon them. 

 Of thefe dead Bodies I brought on boar4 

 a Boy of about nine or ten Years of Age, 

 M 4 vvith 



