1 9 o The Diftreffes and Adventures 

 the Time would permit me to ftay no longer, 

 I took a forrowful Leave, with many melan- 

 choly Reflections concerning the hard Fate 

 of this unfortunate young Man, who had 

 been a defpairing Wanderer in this Country 

 live Years before he met with us, and had 

 fince followed us thus far, with great Difficul- 

 ty and Hazard of his Life, as he was not in a 

 State of Health, nor had Strength of Body 

 to undergo the Hardfhips he met with, and 

 this only with a View of feeing his Friends 

 and Country once more; but that after all 

 his Toil, all his Labour and Sufferings, he 

 fhould be cut off from what he had fo 

 earneftly and juftly defired, feem'd to me 

 the Hardeft of Fate. 



Being now embarked in the Canoe, the 

 Indian Patroon who was fent with us, by 

 way of Pilot, on thefe Coafts, faid, that the 

 neareft Harbour we could come to was Golfo 

 Dolce, which was thirty Leagues from this 

 Place. In fix Days after we made the Ifland 

 of Caino, but the Wind turning againft us, 

 and our Provifion and Water being fpent, 

 we agreed to row in for the Shore as near as 

 poffible j and when we came to an Anchor, 



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