I also absorbed a pig skin flask of Spanish wine which afforded me great consolation in my exhausted condition.

I then took off the dress and dried myself before the fire and rising sun, in hopes the shepherds would take courage and return; but they never came back.

Before dressing I left a Spanish dollar on the upturned bottom of the stew pan, and returned to the river much refreshed and all traces of hunger gone.
"I had not proceeded more than a league when I observed a man seated on a mule, occupying a point of rock overlooking the river.

The man, on seeing me, raised a bugle to his lips and sounded a merry blast, which was, answered by loud cheers further down.

On arriving opposite the lookout, I was informed that the Governor of Caceres and a party of ladies and gentlemen were waiting for me at a short distance below, and in a few moments I sighted the party and landed.