JOB HORTOP A.D. 



1568. 

 his favour & friendship in their lawes, who hearing of our 

 comming, for feare forsooke ye town. 



In our way up the hil to Placencia, wee found a Placencia In 

 monstrous venemous worme with two heads : his body ^^^ maine> 

 was as bigge as a mans arme, and a yard long : our 

 master Robert Barret did cut him in sunder with his 

 sword, and it made it as blacke as if it were coloured 

 with ynke. 



Heere be many Tygers, monstrous and furious beasts, 

 which by subtiltie devoure and destroy many men : they 

 use the traded wayes, & wil shew themselves twise or 

 thrise to the travellers, and so depart secretly, lurking till 

 they be past, then suddenly & at unawares they leape upon 

 them and devoure them : they had so used two of our [III. 489.] 

 company, had not one of them looked behind. Our 

 General! sent three ships unto the Hand called Coragao, to 

 make provision for the rest, where they remayned untill 

 his comming. Hee sent from thence the Angel and the 

 Judith to Rio de Hacha, where we anchored before the 

 town. The Spaniards shot three pieces at us from the 

 shore, whom we requited with two of ours, and shotte 

 through the Governours house : we wayed anchor, & 

 anchored againe without shot of the towne, where wee 

 rid five dayes in despite of the Spanyards and their shot. 

 In the mean space there came a Carvel of advise from S. 

 Domingo, whom with the Angel, and the Judith wee 

 chased and drove to the shore : we fetcht him from thence 

 in spite of 200. Spaniards hargubush shot, and anchored 

 againe before the towne, and rid there with them, till our 

 Generals comming, who anchored, landed his men, and 

 valiantly tooke the Towne, with the losse of one man, ^10 de la 

 whose name was Thomas Surgeon : wee landed and ^^^^^ ^^^^^' 

 planted on the shore for our safeties, our field ordinance : 

 we drove the Spaniards up into the country above two 

 leagues, whereby they were inforced to trade with our 

 General, to whom he sold most part of his Negros. 



In this river we killed a monstrous Lagarto or Croco- 

 dile in this port at sunne set : seven of us went in the 

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