i jo The Dijlrejfes and Adventures 



his Legs after him ; but, for our own Parts, 

 what we endured is inexpreffible ; and cerr 

 tain it is, that could we have been truly fen- 

 fible of what thefe Mountains really were, be- 

 fore we undertook to go over them, we ftiould 

 have been fo far from attempting it, that to 

 have been made Lords and Mafters of the 

 Country, with all the Riches contained there r 

 in, would not have been fufficient to bribe us 

 to fuch an Undertaking; but every Man of 

 us, would have rather chofe to fit down 

 with the Indians, as contentedly as he could, 

 and have Ipent his whole Life after their 

 wild and uncomfortable Manner. True it 

 is, indeed, that both Spaniards and Indians, 

 had often warned us, that it would be im- 

 practicable for us to travel over thefe Moun- 

 tains, but we vainly imagined, we fhould 

 not meet with the terrible Bugbears they re- 

 prefented to us ; and as the old Proverb has 

 it, We fancied they made Mountains of Mole- 

 hills. 



But not to trouble the Reader with a 

 farther Account of the Particulars of this 

 melancholy Part of our Journey, I ihall on- 

 ly fay, that with infinite Toil and Danger, 



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