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a fight ; but the Indian women nevef 

 came empty-handed ; they always brought 

 with them either fowls, mutton, or fome 

 kind of provifion to us ; fo that we lived 

 well enough. However, we found a 

 very fenfible diiference between the treat- 

 ment we had met with from the Indians, 

 and what we now experienced from the 

 Spaniards : With the former, we were 

 quite at liberty to do as we pleafed ; 

 but here, if we only went ten yards to 

 attempt at getting rid of fome of the ver- 

 min that devoured us, we had two fo!- 

 diers, with drawn fpados, to attend us. 

 About the third day, a jefuit from Caftro 

 came to fee us ; not from a motive of 

 Gompaflion, but from a report fpread by 

 our Indian cacique, that we had fome 

 things of great value about us. Having 

 by chance feen captain Cheap pull out a 

 gold repeating watch, the firft thing 

 the good father did was to lug out of 

 his pocket a bottle of brandy, and give 



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