ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author was troubled how he should get through St Salvador, which was a city of Spaniards, and wherein there was a cloister of Dominicans, whom he feared most of all, because he was known by some of them. Thus with courage resolving to go on towards England, his enquired at Cartago which way he might get to Portobello. The River of Lempa is held the broadest and biggest in ail the jurisdiction belonging unto Guatemala; there are constantly two ferry boats to pass over the travellers, and their requas of mules. St Antonio Suchitepequez town of Los Esclavos standeth in a bottom by a river, over the which the Spaniards have built a very strong stone bridge to go in and out of the town, for otherwise with mules there is no passing by reason of the violent and rapid stream of the water.
