As There Is No Reasoning Them Out Of
Superstition, I Knew No Way Of Encouraging Them To Go Forward But
What I Had Already Made Use Of On The Same Occasion, Assuring Them
That I Heard One At The Same Time On The Right.
They were happily
so credulous as to take my word, and we went on till we came to a
well, where we stayed awhile to refresh ourselves.
Setting out
again in the evening, we passed so near a village where these
robbers had retreated that the dogs barked after us. Next morning
we joined the fathers, who waited for us. After we had rested
ourselves some time in that mountain, we resolved to separate and go
two and two, to seek for a more convenient place where we might hide
ourselves. We had not gone far before we were surrounded by a troop
of robbers, with whom, by the interest of some of the natives who
had joined themselves to our caravan, we came to a composition,
giving them part of our goods to permit us to carry away the rest;
and after this troublesome adventure arrived at a place something
more commodious than that which we had quitted, where we met with
bread, but of so pernicious a quality that, after having ate it, we
were intoxicated to so great a degree that one of my friends, seeing
me so disordered, congratulated my good fortune of having met with
such good wine, and was surprised when I gave him an account of the
whole affair.
Enter page number
PreviousNext
Page 134 of 149
Words from 37164 to 37423
of 41322
