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The Passage along the Cape River.
this River they made Bark-logs (which I shall describe in the next Chapter) and so went into the North Seas. This was the way that Captain Sharp had proposed to go if he had been put to it ; for this way was partly known to Privateers by the dis- covery that was made into the Country about 30 years since, by a party of Englishmen that went up that River in Canoas, about as far as the place where these Frenchmen made their Bark-logs : there they landed and marched to a Town called Segovia in the Country. They were near a month getting up the River, for there are many Cataracts where they were often forced to leave the River, and hale their Canoas ashore over the Land, till they were past the Cataracts, and then launch their Carcas again into the River. I have discoursed several Men that were in that Expedition, and if I mistake not Captain Sharp was one of them. But to return to our Voyage in hand ; when both our Ships were clean, and our Water fill'd, Captain Davis and Captain Eaton broke off Consortships. Captain Ea- ton took aboard of his Ships 400 Packs of Flower, and sailed out of the Gulf the second day of Sep- tember.
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