SIR JOHN HAWKINS a.d. 



1565. 

 of a monstrous bignesse, amongst the which the captaine [III. 513.] 

 being in one of the Barks comming downe the same, shot 

 a Faulcon at one, which very narowly hee missed, and 

 with a feare hee plunged into the water, making a streame 

 like the way of a boate. 



Now while we were here, whether it were of a feare 

 that the Spaniards doubted wee would have done them 

 some harme before we departed, or for any treason that 

 they intended towards us, I am not able to say ; but then 

 came thither a Captaine from some of the other townes, 

 with a dozen souldiers upon a time when our Captaine 

 and the treasurer cleared al things betweene them, and 

 were in a communication of a debt of the governors of 

 Burboroata, which was to be payd by the said treasurer, 

 who would not answer the same by any meanes. Where- 

 upon certaine words of displeasure passed betwixt the 

 Captaine and him, and parting the one from the other, 

 the treasurer possibly doubting that our Captaine would 

 perforce have sought the same, did immediately command 

 his men to armes, both horsemen and footemen : but 

 because the Captaine was in the River on the backe side 

 of the Towne with his other boates, and all his men 

 unarmed and without weapons, it was to be judged he 

 ment him little good, having that advantage of him, that 

 comming upon the sudden, hee might have mischieved 

 many of his men : but the Captaine having understanding 

 thereof, not trusting to their gentlenesse, if they might 

 have the advantage, departed aboord his ships, and at 

 night returned againe, and demanded amongst other talke, 

 what they ment by assembling their men in that order, 

 & they answered, that their Captaine being come to towne 

 did muster his men according to his accustomed maner. 

 But it is to be judged to bee a cloake, in that comming 

 for that purpose hee might have done it sooner, but the 

 trueth is, they were not of force untill then, whereby to 

 enterprise any matter against us, by meanes of pikes and 

 harquebuzes, whereof they have want, and were now 

 furnished by our Captaine, and also 3. Faulcons, which 



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