to have done the like, as wel for his own discharge as for the publike
good: having 2 Indians for my guide and 2 of our own company, I set
forward, leaving 7 in the barge; having discovered 20 miles further in
this desart, the river stil kept his depth and bredth, but much more
combred with trees; here we went ashore (being some 12 miles higher than
ye barge had bene) to refresh our selves, during the boyling of our
vituals: one of the Indians I tooke with me, to see the nature of the
soile, and to cross the boughts of the river, the other Indian I left
with M. Robbinson and Thomas Emry, with their matches light and order to
discharge a peece, for my retreat at the first sight of any Indian, but
within a quarter of
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