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.
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