lo The Dijirejfes and Adventures 



About Noon that Day, we drefled the \ % 

 four Pieces of Beef before fpoken of, which 

 our People brought along with them, and 

 thereof made an equal Divifion, the People 

 we were among not having the Eowels to 

 give us any Thing to eat, or ought that 

 might comfort us, tho' they themfelves wal- 

 lowed in Plenty. Indeed, the next Day 

 they granted us Liberty to depart in order 

 (as they faid) to get a Veffel bound for 

 the Havrmna, which wonderfully revived 

 our drooping Spirits ; but we found after- 

 wards, by fad Experience, it was mere De- 

 lufion all, for no fuch VelTel could we find. 

 They appointed two Indians to be our Guides 

 to a Town called Candiliero^ who led us 

 over feveral high and craggy Mountains, 

 extre^mly difficult to afcend, which went 

 very hard with wounded Men. 



This was the firft fetting out of a jour- 

 ney, as we computed, of two Thoufand 

 three Hundred Miles, which we were to tra- 

 vel bare- footed, through an unknown Trad of 

 Land, (at leaft to us) which took us up 

 ten Months, and I may fay fome times 

 proved infupportable r for we were all the 



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