We resolved therefore to follow this our friends counsell, and to goe yet to _Nicoya_, and from thence to _Golfo de Salinas_, where laughing, I told the three _Spaniards_ of my company, that if we were disappointed, we would like _Hercules_ set up a Pillar to eternize our fame, with our names, and this inscription upon it, _Non plus Ultra_, for that beyond it there was no other Port, Haven, or place, to take shipping to _Panama_; neither could any man have done more (nor ever did any _English_ man in that Countrey doe more then my selfe) then wee had done, but especially my selfe, who from _Mexico_ had thus travelled by land to _Nicoya_ at lead six hundred leagues, or eighteen hundred _English_ miles straight from North to South, besides what I had travelled from _Vera Cruz_ to _Mexico_, and from _Guatemala_ to _Vera Paz_, and to _Puerto de Cavallos_, or _Golfo dulce_, and from thence to _Truxillo_, and from thence back againe to _Guatemala_, which was at least thirteen or fourteen hundred _English_ miles more, which I thought to eternize upon a pillar at _Nicoya_. But what there was not erected, I hope here shall be eternized, and that this my true and faithfull History shall bee a Monument of three thousand, and three hundred miles travelled by an _English_ man, within the main land of _America_, besides other sea navigations to _Panama_, from _Portobel_ to _Carthagena_, and from thence unto the _Havana_. The way which we travelled from _Carthago_ to _Nicoya_ was very mountainous, hard, & unpleasant, for we met with few Estancia's of _Spaniards_, and few _Indian_ Towns, and those very poor, smal, and all of dejected and wretched people. Yet _Nicoya_ is a pretty Towne, and head of a _Spanish_ government, where wee found one _Justo de Salazar_, Alcalde Maior, who entertained us very well, and provided lodgings for us for the time that wee should abide there, and comforted us with hopeful words, that though for the present there was no ship or frigat in the Golfe of _Salinas_, yet he doubted not, but very shortly one would come from _Panama_ thither, for Salt and other commodities, as yeerly they were wont. The time of the yeer when we came thither, was a fit time for me to get againe some monies after my great losse; for it was in Lent which is the Friers chiefest harvest, who (as I have before observed) then by Confessions and by giving the Communion get many money offerings.