Mr. Davis his Expedition 



On the 20th we came up to a Houfe 

 where there was a Guard kept to look after 

 us, confiding of a Spanijh Captain and nine 

 more, whoie Orders were to give all the 

 Intelligence they could to the Mine, whom 

 we all killed, or took Prifoners, except one 

 who made his efcape to the Mine > and gave 

 diem an account of our approach. We loft 

 on oar fide one Indian, whom we bury'd in 

 the Houfe. This Day we marched over the 

 higheft of all the Mountains, and fuch a 

 one as I thought Man could not be able to 

 get up : I do really believe it could not be 

 lefs than feven or eight miles high. Some of 

 our Men iniagin'd it to be within a Stones 

 cad of Heaven, and would willingly have 

 tarry ci there, cfpecially being much weari- 

 ed with the Fatigue they underwent, and 

 fuppplibig they (hould never come again fo 

 near the blifsful Region. We palled over 

 three Rivers on the 30th 5 and being with- 

 in two miles of the Town of Cana y a Spa- 

 niard who was let on the look out, wasdif- 

 cover'd by our Forlorn, and was (hot dead 

 by Captain Goulding $ we got into the Sa- 

 vannah (as they call it) atbout eleven, but 

 fuch an one, as I believe, was never feen be- 

 fore, for we were up to the Crutches, go- 

 ing up to the Town in Mud and Dirt 5 fe- 

 veral of our Men damnify'd their Arms and 

 Ammunition. Captain Gandy and Gould- 

 ing with Pedro, being in the Van, with a- 

 boat fifty EngHJh and thirty Indians, fell 



