This was a supply of provisions sufficient; as for bread, we were obliged
to shift with some roots which we had made use of before. We then began to
consider of making some large bags like the soldiers' knapsacks, for their
men to carry our baggage in, and to make it easy to them; and the goats
being killed, I ordered the skins to be spread in the sun, and they were as
dry in two days as could be desired; so we found means to make such little
bags as we wanted, and began to divide our baggage into them. When the
black prince found what they were for, and how easy they were of carriage
when we put them on, he smiled a little, and sent away the man again to
fetch skins, and he brought two natives more with him, all loaded with
skins better cured than ours, and of other kinds, such as we could not tell
what names to give them.

These two men brought the black prince two lances, of the sort they use in
their fights, but finer than ordinary, being made of black smooth wood, as
fine as ebony, and headed at the point with the end of a long tooth of some
creature--we could not tell of what creature; the head was so firm put on,
and the tooth so strong, though no bigger than my thumb, and sharp at the
end, that I never saw anything like it in any place in the world.

The prince would not take them till I gave him leave, but made signs that
they should give them to me; however, I gave him leave to take them
himself, for I saw evident signs of an honourable just principle in him.

We now prepared for our march, when the prince coming to me, and pointing
towards the several quarters of the world, made signs to know which way we
intended to go; and when I showed him, pointing to the west, he presently
let me know there was a great river a little further to the north, which
was able to carry our bark many leagues into the country due west. I