1 20 The Dijlrejfes and Adventures 



with Devotees. We went one Day to the 

 Convent to ask Charity, where the Fathers 

 prefently asked, if we were Chriftians ; when 

 I told them we were, they defired to be in- 

 formed, by whom we had been baptized. I 

 told them by Clergymen of the Church of 

 England : Why then, laid they, you are no 

 Chriftians, for they have no Power to bap- 

 tize, who are married, and have Children. 

 As they were difcourfing me upon this 

 Head, came a Negroe Woman, and faid, 

 that her Mafter Don Emanuel defired to 

 fpeak with us; we went with her imme- 

 diately to his Houfe, where he asked us 

 fuch Queftions only as good Nature and 

 Curiofity fuggefted, all which I refolved 

 the beft I could. When he heard, we had 

 delivered our Paffes to the Alcald of Con- 

 tiagua, before we croffed the great Gulf, and 

 were now without any, he faid, we muft 

 have one, for otherwife there would be no 

 travelling ; and was very forry, that his Fa- 

 ther, whom he ftiled our Countryman, tho 5 

 born in Ireland, and who was Treafurer and 

 Secretary to the Governor, and could do as 

 he pleafes with him, fhould be out of Town 

 at this critical Juncture ; for had he been 



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