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plying with our Requeft, fecure us all. Up- 

 on this Consideration, we propofed to them, 

 to go to the Governor by themfelves, if they 

 could get Admittance, and plead their own 

 Cafe, whilft we crofTed the River of St. 

 Michael'^ and waited their coming in a 

 Wood about three Leagues off, which we 

 had been informed lay in our Way to Con- 

 ttagua\ they, feeing they could no other- 

 wife do, accepted thePropofal j upon which, 

 we departed to the Place appointed, and 

 they entred the Town to negotiate their Af- 

 fair, and fucceeded fo fpeedily therein, by 

 the Means of Colorado^ that by Evening, 

 they returned to us in the Wood, with their 

 Pafi in their Hands, having not been fo much 

 as fufpe&ed for Spies. We congratulated 

 them on their good Succefs, and imputed it, 

 in fome meafure, to this, that when the Go- 

 vernor beheld them in the fame forlorn Condi- 

 tion he had feen us, and found them in the 

 fame Story, he might probably fay to him- 

 felf, as yofepb did to his Brethren, that now 

 he knew we were true Men, and no Spies. 

 We refblved now to ftick clofe by one 

 another for the future, feeing we were ena^ 

 bled fo to do. 



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