14* The T)ijlrejfes and Adventures 

 with them, fubmitted patiently to their Dis- 

 cipline. This Ram was the only Sheep we 

 faw throughout the Country, and I fhould 

 have had no Occafion to have been forry, 

 had we mifs'd the Sight of him. As to my 

 own Part, tho' I laugh'd at the Rencounter 

 as foon as it was over, and have often done 

 fo fince, yet, in the main, I had no Caufe 

 to make a Jeft of it ; for I underwent a 

 great deal of Pain on Account of my 

 broken Rib, and particularly at the Time 

 it was frefh, when we were obliged to travel 

 for many Days, over thofe defperate Moun- 

 tains of Nicaragua. The Alcald and his 

 Wife were much concerned when they 

 faw me fo bruis'd, and applied what Plaifters 

 and Remedies they knew of to the Parts 

 affe&ed. 



We had now waited here fix Days in 

 Expectation that our Fellow-Traveller Ba- 

 pljier would overtake us, but finding he did 

 not come, we began to give him over for 

 loft, and fo agreed to wait no longer. Ac- 

 cordingly the next Morning we fat out, af- 

 ter paying our Refpecta to the Alcald, and 

 his Family, who dlreded us the Way we 



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