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4£ U New Survey Chap. Vil

/nów Wcíedireaed to the black Marks and fo five of the* in little above a quarter of an hour ilain and wounded All that night our Soufdiers Guarded the Coaft, ofrei íhopting off their Muskets to affright the Indians, wh< appeared tio more unco us. All thar tffyht we flepc little for we watched oar Ship 5 left the Indians in their Canoa íiiould íet upon us and take us afleep. Some lamentec the dead and drowned, others pitied our wounded Friei fshn de la Cueva, who all that night lay in great tor inentand mifery, others laushed and jeared at thoie Zealou Friers, who would have flayed in that Ifland to Con- vert the Barbarians, faying they had their full defire oí Martyrdom, for had they been bur that night with the Indians, doubtlefs they had been fhred for their Suppers. But now we perceived their Zeal was coole, and they de- fired no more to flay wich fuch a Barbarous kind of peo- pie; but rather wiflied the Admiral would íhoot off the warning Peece for us all to take up our Anchors, and de- part from fo dangerous a place. In the rqorning ail the Ships made haft to take in fuch freili water as was ne- aflary for their Voiage yet to America^ a ftrong Warch being kept along the Coaft, and a Guard Guarding our men to the River; and all che morning while this was doing not one Indian could be found or feen, nor our three men that were míTm*, appeared. Thus at noon with a plcafant and profperous Gale we Hoifted up our Sails, leaving the Iflands and Harbour of g**i*lnpt.

Chap. VIL

Of our further Sailing to. St. John de Ulhua, alias, Vera Crux; and of our Landing there.

UPon the twenty fecond of Augnfl, we Sailed fo pleaiandy that we foon left the ii*kc of the iflands: lae Indians uprore had weaved for usa thred of long

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