A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1568. 



8 dayes, in which our ships were most dangerously tossed 

 and beaten hither, & thither, so that we were in continuall 

 feare to be drowned by reason of the shallownes of the 

 coast, and in the end we were constrained to flee for 

 succour to the port of S. John de Ullua, or Vera Cruz, 

 situated in 19. degrees of latitude, and in 279. degrees of 

 longitude, which is the port that serveth for the Citie of 

 Mexico : in our seeking to recover this port our Generall 

 met by the way three small ships that caried passengers, 

 which hee tooke with him, and so the sixtenth of 

 September 1568. wee entered the saide port of S. John 

 de Ullua. The Spaniards there supposing us to have 

 bene the King of Spaines Fleete, the chiefe officers of 

 the Countrey thereabouts came presently aboord our 

 Generall, where perceiving themselves to have made an 

 unwise adventure, they were in great feare to have bene 

 taken and stayed : howbeit our Generall did use them all 

 very courteously. In the said port there were twelve 

 ships which by report had in them in treasure to the 

 value of two hundreth thousand pound all which being 

 in our Generall his power and at his devotion, he did 

 freely set at libertie, as also the passengers which he had 

 before stayed, not taking from any of them all the value 

 of one groat : onely hee stayed two men of credite and 

 accompt, the one named Don Laurenzo de Alva, and the 

 other Don Pedro de Rivera, and presently our Generall 

 Mexico 60. sent to the Viceroy to Mexico which was threescore 

 leagues from leagues off, certifying him of our arrivall there by force 

 . uan e ^^ weather, desiring that forasmuch as our Queene his 

 Soveraigne, was the king of Spaine his loving sister and 

 friend, that therefore hee would, considering our neces- 

 sities and wants, furnish us with victuals for our Navie, 

 and quietly suffer us to repaire and amend our ships. 

 And furthermore that at the arrival of the Spanish Fleet 

 which was there dayly expected and looked for, to the 

 ende that there might no quarell arise betweene them, 

 and our Generall and his company for the breach of 

 amitie, he humbly requested of his excellencie, that there 



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