46 The Dijlreffes and Adventures 

 JDioSj not above fix Days Journey from 

 thence, and that there lived two of our 

 Countrymen, which was very agreeable 

 News to us. Then he appointed us to a 

 Range, faying, he would take Order that 

 every Inhabitant in the Town fliould give 

 us fomething, and pun&ually performed 

 his Promife. Now the Manner of colleft- 

 ing the Charity was, by the Sound of Pipe 

 and Tabor, with which the Perfons, who 

 were appointed for that Purpofe, went from 

 Houfe to Houfe, and gathered fome Plan- 

 tains for us. The Tabor was made of a 

 Piece of a hollow Tree, cover'd with a Skin, 

 and the Pipe of a Reed ; after flaying here 

 two Nights and one Day, we fet out for 

 Gracias a Dios. 



In our firfb Day's Journey from hence, 

 we pafs'd over very high Rocks, all of fine 

 Marble, curioufly veined with various Co- 

 lours ; at the Bottom of thefe Rocks, was a 

 Path that led us to a great River. This was 

 what the Indian Governor had before told 

 us of by the Name of the River Grande^ 

 which, he faid, we ftiould have occafion to 

 crofs to and fro for many Days. We got 



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