A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed BeforeDefoe, Daniel
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A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before
Defoe, Daniel
Adventure stories; Voyages around the world -- Fiction
It might very well take up another volume to give a farther account of
the particulars of their journey, or, rather, their journey and voyage.
How they got through the hills, and were entertained by the generous
Spaniard, and afterwards by the wealthy Chilian; how the men, greedy for
gold, were hardly brought away from the mountains; and how, once, they
had much ado to persuade them not to rob the honest Chilian who had
used them so well, till my lieutenant, then their captain, by a
stratagem, seized on their weapons, and threatened to speak to the
Spaniard to raise the Chilians in the mountains, and have all their
throats cut; and yet even this did not suffice, till the two midshipmen,
then their lieutenants, assured them that at the first opening of the
hills, and in the rivers beyond, they would have plenty of gold; and one
of the midshipmen told them, that if he did not see them have so much
gold that they would not stoop to take up any more, they should have all
his share to be divided among them, and should leave him behind in the
first desolate place they could find.
How this appeased them till they came to the outer edge of the
mountains, where I had been, and where my patron, the Spaniard, left
them, having supplied them with sixteen mules to carry their baggage,
and some guinacoes, or sheep of Peru, which would carry burdens, and
afterwards be good to eat also.
Also, how here they mutinied again, and would not be drawn away, being
insatiable in their thirst after gold, till about twenty, more
reasonable than the rest, were content to move forward; and, after some
time, the rest followed, though not till they were assured that the
picking up of gold continued all along the river, which began at the
bottom of the mountains, and that it was likely to continue a great way
farther.
How they worked their way down these streams, with still an insatiable
avarice and thirst after the gold, to the lake called the Golden Lake,
and how here they were astonished at the quantity they found; how, after
this, they had great difficulty to furnish themselves with provisions,
and greater still in carrying it along with them until they found more.
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