FRANCIS DRAKE 



A.D. 

 1572. 



The first voyage attempted and set foorth by the 

 expert and valiant captaine M. Francis Drake 

 himselfe, with a ship called the Dragon, and 

 another ship and a Pinnesse, to Nombre de 

 Dios, and Dariene, about the yeere 1572, 

 Written and recorded by one Lopez Vaz a 

 Portugall borne in the citie of Elvas, in maner 

 follow : which Portugale, with the discourse 

 about him, was taken at the river of Plate by 

 the ships set foorth by the Right Honourable 

 the Earle of Cumberland, in the yeere 1586. 



Here was a certaine English man named 

 Francis Drake, who having intelligence 

 how the towne of Nombre de Dios in 

 Nueva Espanna, had but small store of 

 people remaining there, came on a night, 

 and entred the Port with foure Pin- 

 nesses, and landed about 150 men, & 

 leaving 70 men with a trumpet, in a Fort which was 

 there, with the other 80 he entred the towne, without 

 doing any harme, till he came to the market place, and [III. 526.] 

 there discharged his calivers, & sounded a trumpet very 

 loud, and the other which he had left in the Fort 

 answered him after the same maner, with the discharging 

 their calivers, and sounding their trumpets : the people 

 hereupon not thinking of any such matter, were put 

 in great feare, and waking out of their sleepe fled all 

 into the mountaines, inquiring one of another what the 

 matter should be, remaining as men amazed, not knowing 

 what that uprore was which happened so suddenly in 

 the towne. But 14 or 15 of them joyning together 

 with their harquebuzes, went to the market place to 

 know what they were that were in the towne, and in 

 a corner of the market place they did discover the 

 Englishmen, and seeing them to be but fewe, discharged 



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