I S4 The 7)ijlrejfes and Adventures 



they will not keep longer : Then we took to 

 our Canoe, and fteered our Courfe along 

 Shore, about Eaft North Eaft, and the next 

 Morning found ourfelves on the great Gulf 

 of Herradura y in which are many Iflands ; 

 one of tnefe we law, had a fubterraneous 

 PafTage like a regular well-built Arch, 

 which the Indians told us ran quite through 

 it, and that if we would venture ourfelves 

 and the Canoe that Way, which was but 

 one League, we fhould by that Means fave 

 twenty. I defired to know, if any qf them 

 had ever been through it, and one of them 

 told me he had twice, and that the Current 

 which was very ftrong, always ran the 

 W^y we were to go, but that, indeed, we 

 fhould be all in Darknefs. Upon weighing 

 the whole Matter, we concluded to venture 

 through it, and accordingly fet in our Ca- 

 noe, and drove away with wonderful Swift- 

 nefs. We were about half an Hour in our 

 Paifage; but (as I faid upon a different 

 Occafion) a Man would have thought him- 

 felf in another' World. We had total Dark- 

 nefs for the Time, and fuch a terrible Roar- 

 ing did the Water make in this Cavity, as 

 would have daunted the ftputeft Man living; 

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