This was the order of our march. Four of those Cimaroons that best knew
the ways, went about a mile distance before us, breaking boughs as they
went, to be a direction to those that followed; but with great silence,
which they also required us to keep.
Then twelve of them were as it were our Vanguard, other twelve, our
Rearward. We with their two Captains in the midst.
All the way was through woods very cool and pleasant, by reason of
those goodly and high trees, that grow there so thick, that it is cooler
travelling there under them in that hot region, than it is in the most
parts of England in the summer time. This gave a special encouragement
unto us all, that we understood there was a great Tree about the midway,
from which, we might at once discern the North Sea from whence we came,
and the South Sea whither we were going.
The fourth day following (11th February) we came to the height of
the desired hill, a very high hill, lying East and West, like a ridge
between the two seas, about ten of the clock: where [PEDRO] the chiefest
of these Cimaroons took our Captain by the hand, and prayed him to
follow him, if he was desirous to see at once the two seas, which he had
so long longed for.
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