of John Cocfeburn, &c. \ 5 9 

 could we have eat it; however, we got 

 fome to carry altyig with us, and the nest 

 Day they directed us to go over certain 

 Mountains, whofe Tops (they told us as a 

 Sign to know them by) we c@uld not fee, 

 and then they faid, we fliould get to M- 

 coya in two or three Days. 



Th e s e Mountains we palTed in two Days ? 

 but were all the Way intolerably plagued 

 with a filthy Kind of Vermine, like a 

 Bug, which faften'd on us in Swarms, and 

 lb fattened that we could not fcrape them 

 off with our Knife. We had often been 

 annoy'd with this Sort of Infeft before, but 

 not to this Degree, and had it not been for 

 the Indians, who would pick them off us, 

 they would have eaten into our Flefti, and 

 could never have been got olit, as they told 

 us. 



On the third Day we arrived ztNicoya, 

 where after we had refted ourfelves awhile, we 

 went to the Alcald Major, and fhewed him 

 our Pafs ; who ftraitways inquired how we 

 came into this Country ? I told him, and 

 gave him an Account of our Travels, as 



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