86 The 7)ijlreffe$ and Adventures 



coming at this Day ; for as we fat contem- 

 plating on thefe Things, and had juft de- 

 termined to return from whence we came, 

 there happen'd to pafs by us certain Indians 

 who had feen us before ; they knowing us 

 again, after a little Difcourfe, inquir'd where 

 our Comrade was ; we told them, we had 

 left him fick in the Woods about two Leagues 

 off j they faid, if he had efcaped the Storm, 

 he would be torn in Pieces by Tigers before 

 Morning, and readily offered to go look for 

 him, and bring him to us : This much re- 

 joiced us, as we knew them to be fwift and 

 faithful. 



No fooner were they gone, than we 

 entred the Town, and prefently a Man 

 beckon'd to us. It was not our Bufinefs to 

 neglect any one that would take Notice of 

 us, and therefore we went direftly to him. 

 He asked, if we could fpeak CajliUana, and 

 what Diftrefs had brought us hither; upon 

 which, I repeated our whole Story, and told 

 him, we were endeavouring to get to fome 

 Engllfb Faftory but he gave us to under- 

 Hand, there was none nearer than Panama, 

 that we were ftill four Hundred Leagues 



from 



