ter; wherein, albeit they had indeed
sufficient safety and security, by those of his company, which our
Captain sent unto them, of purpose to comfort them: yet they never
ceased most earnestly entreating, that our Captain would vouchsafe to
come to them himself for their more safety; which when he did, in their
presence reporting the charge he had first been given, and the assurance
of his men, they were comforted.

While the guards which we had, not without great need, set, as well
on the bridge which we had to pass over, as at the town's end where we
entered (they have no other entrance into the town by land: but from the
water's side there is one other to carry up and down their merchandise
from their frigates) gained us liberty and quiet to stay in this town
some hour and half: we had not only refreshed ourselves, but our company
and Cimaroons had gotten some good pillage, which our Captain allowed
and gave them (being not the thing he looked for) so that it were
not too cumbersome or heavy in respect of our travel, or defence of
ourselves.

A little before we departed, some ten or twelve horsemen came from
Panama; by all likelihood, supposing that we were gone out of this town,
for that all was so still and quiet, came to enter the town confidently:
but finding their entertainment such as it was; they that could, rode
faster back again for fear than they had ridden forward for hope.

Thus we having ended our business in this town, and the day beginning to
spring, we marched over the bridge, observing the same order that we
did before. There we were all safe in our opinion, as if we had been
environed with wall and trench, for that no Spaniard without his extreme
danger could follow us. The rather now, for that our Cimaroons were
grown very valiant. But our Captain considering that he had a long way
to pass, and that he had been now well near a fortnight from his ship,
where he had left his company but weak by reason of their sickness,
hastened his journeys as much as he might, refusing to visit the other
Cimaroon towns (which they earnestly desired him) and encouraging his
own company with such example and speech, that the way seemed much
shorter. For he marched most cheerfully, and assured us that he doubted
not but ere he left that coast, we should all be bountifully paid
and recompensed for all those pains taken: but by reason of this our
Captain's haste, and leaving of their towns, we marched many days with