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pay him extraordinary refped ; but in two 

 or three nights, thefe Indians, being inde- 

 pendent of the Spaniards, and living 

 fomewhere to the fouthv/ard of our 

 Chono guide, left us to proceed on our 

 journey by ourfelves. 



The firft night we lay at an ifland def- 

 titute of all refrefliment ; where having 

 found fome fhelter for our boat, and 

 made ourfelves a fire, we flept by it. 

 The next night we were more unfortu- 

 nate, though our wants were increafing ; 

 for having run to the weftward of Mon- 

 irofs ifland, we found no fhelter for the 

 barge ; but were under the neceffity of 

 lying upon our oars, fuffering the moft 

 extreme pangs of hunger. The next day 

 brought us to the bottom of a great bay, 

 where the Indian guide had left his 

 family, a wife and two children, in a 

 hut. Here we ftaid two or three days, 

 during which we were conflantly em- 

 ployed 



