But my thoughts were a little suspended , when i had a serious discourse with the spaniard , and when i understood that there were sixteen more of his countrymen and portuguese , who having been cast away , and made their escape to that side , liv d there at peace indeed with the savages , but were very sore put to it for necessaries , and indeed for life : i ask d him all the particulars of their voyage , and found they were a spanish ship bound from the rio de la plata to the havana , being directed to leave their loading there , which was chiefly hides and silver , and to bring back what european goods they could meet with there ; that they had five portuguese seamen on board , who they took out of another wreck ; that five of their own men were drowned when the first ship was lost , and that these escaped thro infinite dangers and hazards , and arriv d almost starv d on the cannibal coast , where they expected to have been devour d every moment 我仔细询问了他们的航程，才知道他们搭的是一条西班牙船，从拉普拉塔河出发，前往哈瓦那，准备在哈瓦那卸货，船上主要装的是起货和银子，然后再看看有什么欧洲货可以运回去。他们船上有五个葡萄牙水手，是从另一条遇难船上救下来的。后来他们自己的船也出事了，淹死了五个西班牙船员，其余的人经过无数艰难危险，逃到那些食人生番聚居的海岸时，几乎都快饿死了上岸后，他们也无时无刻不担心给那些野人吃掉。
