As he did the same evening, giving order, that
the ship and the rest of his fleet should the next morning follow him,
because there was a place of as great safety and sufficiency, which his
brother had found out near the river. The safety of it consisted, not
only in that which is common all along that coast from Tolou to Nombre
de Dios, being above sixty leagues, that it is a most goodly and
plentiful country, and yet inhabited not with one Spaniard, or any for
the Spaniards: but especially in that it lieth among a great many of
goodly islands full of trees. Where, though there be channels, yet there
are such rocks and shoals, that no man can enter by night without great
danger; nor by day without discovery, whereas our ships might be hidden
within the trees.
The next day (14th September) we arrived at this river appointed, where
we found the Cimaroons according to promise: the rest of their number
were a mile up, in a wood by the river's side. There after we had given
them entertainment, and received good testimonies of their joy and good
will towards us, we took two more of them into our pinnace, leaving
our two men with the rest of theirs, to march by land, to another river
called Rio Guana, with intent there to meet with another company of
Cimaroons which were now in the mountains.
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