They showed us their clothing and weapons and told us their boat was stranded there. This is the fifth boat and the one that had not yet been accounted for. We have already told how the Governor's boat was carried out to sea. The one with the Purser and the friars had been seen stranded on the coast, and Esquivel told how they met their end. We have already mentioned the two boats Castillo, Dorantes and I were in, and how they sank near the Isle of Misfortune.

CHAPTER TWENTY

How We Escaped

Two days after we moved, we commended ourselves to God our Lord and fled, confident that, although the season was near its end and the prickly pears were almost gone, there would be enough of them left to allow us to march a good distance. Going on our way that day, greatly fearing that the Indians would follow us, we saw some smoke. Going towards it, we arrived there after sundown. There we saw an Indian who fled without waiting for us when he saw us coming. We sent the black man after him, and when the Indian saw that he was going alone, he waited for him. The black man told him we were looking for the people who were making that smoke. He replied that the lodges were near there and that he would guide us there. So we followed him and he ran ahead to announce that we were coming. At sunset we saw the lodges, and at a distance of two crossbow-shots before we reached the lodges, we found four Indians waiting for us. They received us well. We told them in the language of the Mariames that we were looking for them. They indicated that they were pleased with our company and took us to their lodges. Dorantes and the black man stayed in a medicine man Is lodge and Castillo and I in another.

These people, called the Avavares, speak another language. They are the ones that would take bows to our Indians and