1 56 The jDijirefes and Adventures 

 warns that were inhabited. Here we were 

 informed, that a Countryman of ours was, 

 at this Time, in one of thefe Whigwams, 

 who was come hither with fome Indians from 

 Granada, This proved to be Robert Barn- 

 well, whom we found by the Lake of Ni- 

 caragua, near that Town ; and who, at our 

 Departure from thence, was in fo feeble a 

 State of Body, that he was not able to un- 

 dertake the Journey with us. He told us, 

 that after he had recover'd a little Strength, 

 he met with an Opportunity to follow us, 

 with fome Indians, who were to travel this 

 Way, and that he had been endeavouring 

 with them to get over the great River? 

 which vents itfelf into the Gulf of Herra- 

 dura, but that the Current being very rapid, 

 he fhould undoubtedly have been drowned, 

 had they not faved him ; and that afterward, 

 fearing he Ihould be farther troublefome to 

 them, they brought him back to this Place, 

 where they had left him, and were now 

 gone on by themfelves ; fo that having loft 

 his Guides, he had given over all Thoughts 

 of ever feeing us more, little imagining, that 

 this unlucky Accident, as it feemed to be, 

 fhould prove the Means of what he fo much 



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