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Hours, we put up our Things, and croffed 

 the River; after which, we came into a 

 Wood, where we travelled about three 

 Hours, before our Guides told us they had 

 miftook the Way, but in going back again 

 we met a Company of Indians who fet us 

 right. Before we came up to thefe People^ 

 we had ftrangely alarmed ourfelves, fuppo- 

 ling them to be a Body of the Indios Bravos, or 

 Indians at War, but we were miftaken. Af- 

 ter this, we afcended a very fteep Mountain, 

 where it was impoffible to keep on the 

 Mules, without clinging faft round their 

 Necks ; lbme Part of this Road is not above 

 two Foot broad, having Precipices on each Side 

 four or five hundred Feet deep ; Co that, by 

 the leaft Slip of a Male's Foot, both itfelf 

 and Rider muft be dafhed in Pieces. By 

 Sun-let we got to a Houfe, or Inn, where 

 Travellers and Mules are entertained, there 

 being feveral fuch Houfes on this Roadj> 

 and the next Morning by Day-break we let 

 out, and came down to the River of Chagre 

 again, through which we rode a confiderable 

 Way over feveral great Rocks, tho' fome- 

 Simes the Water came over the Mules Backs j 



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