So The Dijheffes and Adventures 

 out his Beads and Crucifix, faying, he had 

 been baptized by a Friar at St. Michael's, 

 with his Wife, and all his Family ; he then 

 bid his Wife look on my Arm, and fhe alfo 

 fell down and kiffed it, but with greater 

 Fervency, if poflible, than the Man ; as I 

 knew this Adoration was paid only to him, 

 whofe Image it bore, it gave me no Uneafi- 

 nefs. Thefe People made us welcome to 

 the beft Entertainment their Circumftances 

 would afford, fuch as Milk, Fruits, Plan- 

 tains, &c. they told us, we were now not 

 far from St. Michael's, where lived Grandee 

 Spaniards \ and, that in a Day or two, there 

 would be held a great Bull-Feaft at that 

 Town, for which, in the Morning, we fet 

 out, after due Acknowledgements for the 

 Favours we had received. 



By the Way, we met with feveral Indians 

 going to St. Michael's, who were all painted 

 and drefTed up, every one in the Skin of 

 lbme wild Creature or other, nothing but 

 Mirth and Jollity appeared in their Coun- 

 tenances; they never ceafed finging and 

 dancing all the Way they went • fome of 

 them had a Sort of Cudgels in their Hands, 



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