9 8 ffie Diflvejfes and Adventures 



he had been baptized by an Holy Father, 

 adding, that if we did but know as much as 

 he, we fliould gladly embrace the kind Of- 

 fer the Governor had made us, who, if we 

 incurred his Difpleafure, by obftinately re- 

 jecting his Beneficence, might have us pro- 

 fecuted as Spies, the Confequence of which 

 would be, if we were convicted as, fuch, no 

 lefs than Death itfelf ; and, continued he, it 

 is reported by the Indians, who are come 

 hither from feveral Parts, that you have 

 taken Obfervation of the Country, and in- 

 quir'd of the Names of Towns and Places 

 as you have paffed along. To which, I an- 

 fwer'd, that had we been imployed as Spies, 

 We ftiould have been fupported in another 

 Manner than what he faw ; and furely, faid I, 

 no Man breathing would have been prompt- 

 ed by Curiofity only, to lb painful and 

 hazardous an Undertaking; wherefore, there 

 is nothing more plain, than that we are poor 

 unhappy Wretches, ftruggling for the Free- 

 dom of once more breathing our Native Air. 

 Had we not made fuch Inquiries by theWay, 

 laid I, it would have been impollible for us 

 to have got thus far on our intended Jour- 

 ney j upon the whole, I defired him to ac- 

 quaint 



