A.D. 



1568. 



The Sipaniards 

 deceived. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



being deceived of their expectation were greatly dis- 

 mayed : but immediatly when they sawe our demand 

 was nothing but victuals, were recomforted. I found 

 also in the same Port twelve ships which had in them 

 by report two hundred thousand pound in gold & silver, 

 all which (being in my possession, with the kings 

 Hand as also the passengers before in my way thitherward 

 stayed) I set at libertie, without the taking from them 

 the waight of a groat: onely because I would not be 

 delayed of my dispatch, I stayed two men of estimation 

 and sent post immediatly to Mexico, which was two 

 hundred miles from us, to the Presidentes and Councell 

 there, shewing them of our arrivall there by the force 

 of weather, and the necessitie of the repaire of our 



Our requests, shippes and victuals, which wantes we required as friends 

 to king Philip to be furnished of for our money : and 

 that the Presidents and Councell there should with 

 all convenient speede take order, that at the arrivall 

 of the Spanish fleete, which was dayly looked for, there 

 might no cause of quarrell rise betweene us and them, 

 but for the better maintenance of amitie, their com- 

 mandement might be had in that behalfe. This message 

 being sent away the sixteenth day of September at night, 

 being the very day of our arrivall, in the next morning 

 which was the seventeenth day of the same moneth, 

 we sawe open of the Haven thirteene great shippes, 



The fleete of and understanding them to bee the fleete of Spaine, I 

 sent immediatly to advertise the Generall of the fleete 

 of my being there, doing him to understand, that before 

 I would suff^er them to enter the Port, there should 

 some order of conditions passe betweene us for our safe 

 being there, and maintenance of peace. Now it is to 

 be understood that this Port is made by a little Hand 

 of stones not three foote above the water in the highest 

 place, and but a bow-shoot of length any way, this Hand 

 standeth from the maine land two bow shootes or more, 

 also it is to be understood that there is not in all this 

 coast any other place for ships to arrive in safety, 



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Spaine. 



The maner 

 of the Port 5. 

 John de Ullua 



