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waflul a fecond time, and fo cleared of 

 the Drofs or fome rocky Part wherewith 

 * it's intermixed till there remains pure Gold. 

 They make a great quantity of Gold every 

 Day Hhey work ^ we made five pound 

 weight and nine Ounces in left than a Day. 

 Every filing here fells at an Extravagant 

 Rate, zs a pound of Sugar at fifteen Shill- 

 ings, and fo proportionably for all things 

 elfe • they carry what Gold they make every 

 fix Weeks to Panama, which is feven Days 

 Journey from this Town. The Town was 

 now -rcliM more narrowly, when we found 

 more Gold and Plate. 



Next Day our Scouts brought in more 

 Spaniards- md Negroes, than we had already 

 in our Power, fome of whom we lent with 

 a Guard to the Mine to wafh theOare, 

 of which they made fix pound weight 



We fent twenty four Negroes on the third 

 into the Mine, who brought eight Pounds 

 of Gold : Now it was, that we began to 

 punifh fome of the Spaniards and Negroes, 

 to make them difcover where they had hid 

 their Treafure 5 the Captain of J:he Mine 

 (who was our Prifoner) vye ty s d up by the 

 Neck fo long, till he was almoft dead, yet 

 cou'd get nothing out of him, nor the reft, 

 whom we punifh d in the fame manner 5 

 the Priefts 'having it feems, given them 

 the Sacrament not to difcover any thing up- 

 ,011 pain of Damnation. But though we 

 pould procure nothing this way, we made 



however 



