In his Way not far from thence, he fell amongst eighteen of the Cannibals Boats, which according to their custom had been a Man-stealing, and now were so hardy, that setting upon the _Spanish_ Ship, they suddenly clapt him aboard with their _Canoos_ on all sides; but being beaten back by the terror of their Guns, they soon retir’d: yet the _Spaniards_ took one of the Boats with two Men, all the rest saving themselves by swimming. One of the two Men lay bound Hand and Foot, who told them, that he was to have been kill’d the next day and eaten, as he saw his Companions, with whose Flesh they banquetting kept a jovial Feast. _Nigno_ unbinding the Prisoner, gave him leave to do what he pleas’d with the taken Cannibal, who falling upon him, cudgel’d and whipp’d him to death. [Sidenote: Strange Salt.] Then _Nigno_ in his Way to _Curiana_ touch’d upon the Coast of _Paria_, where he found a strange kind of Salt, which the Sea in tempestuous Weather casts on the Shore, which afterwards hardens by the Sun. This Salt must be taken up before any Rain fall, else it melts and soaks away into the Ground; yet sometimes grows so hard as a Stone, insomuch that they make Pots and other Vessels of it; which the _Parians_ barter for foreign Commodities. [Sidenote: Strange Corps.] _Nigno_ not making here any stay, return’d a second time to _Curiana_, where he spent twenty days in pleasant Pastimes, being Lodg’d in a Noble-mans House, at whose Door was fix’d a Cannibals Head, as a Trophy of his Victory. He saw there also the dead Bodies of divers eminent Persons set drying at a Fire, so hardned to be set amongst their Idols. [Sidenote: _Nigno_ put in Prison.] [Sidenote: Cruel dealings in _Curiana_.]