Therefore using our Cimaroons most courteously, dismissing those that
were desirous to their wives, with such gifts and favours as were most
pleasing, and entertaining those still aboard his ship, which were
contented to abide with the company remaining; the pinnaces departed as
we determined: the _Minion_ to the West, the _Bear_ to the East.
The _Minion_ about the _Cabecas_, met with a frigate of Nicaragua, in
which was some gold, and a Genoese Pilot (of which Nation there are many
in those coasts), which had been at Veragua not past eight days before.
He being very well entreated, certified our Captain of the state of the
town, and of the harbour, and of a frigate that was there ready to come
forth within few days, aboard which there was above a million of gold,
offering to conduct him to it, if we would do him his right: for that he
knew the channel very perfectly, so that he could enter by night safely
without danger of the sands and shallows, though there be but little
water, and utterly undescried; for that the town is five leagues within
the harbour, and the way by land is so far about and difficult through
the woods, that though we should by any casualty be discovered, about
the point of the harbour, yet we might despatch our business and depart,
before the town could have notice of our coming.
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