0 f John Codbum, &c* tit 

 thofe Parts ; for otherwife, they would not 

 have ventured up into the Country with 

 their Mafheets only, adding, that they were 

 certainly devoured. Then 1 went on to tell 

 him how I had lately pafs'd the Point, by 

 fwimming from Rock to Rock; at which, 

 he feem'd amazed, faying, it was more than 

 any Indian had ever done; for they, he laid, 

 always made a Balfe to get round it, when 

 they* were a good many in Company, one 

 Man not being able to manage that alone. 

 This Point he called Point Burica> and faid, that 

 I mufthavetravell'd a great Way farther along 

 the Sea Coaft, had I not met with them, be- 

 fore I could have come to any Inhabitants, 

 the near eft being thofe of Chiriqui ; to which 

 Place, an Indian could not travel in lefs 

 than twenty Days, provided he kept to the 

 Sea, but that they knew a Way to get thi- 

 ther in nine Days, becaufe they would cut 

 off a great Part of the Journey, by croffing 

 certain Mountains which they could do in 

 three Days, and fo come to the Sea again. 

 And that as they were to go that Way in a 

 few Days, he would take me with them, and 

 {hew me to the River of Chiriqui, where I 

 ftrould be within five Leagues of the Town; 



