A.D. 

 1572. 



The valiant 

 exploit of M. 

 Francis Drake 

 betwixt 

 Panama and 

 "N ombre de 

 Dios. 



M. Francis 

 Drake burnt 

 the house of 

 Crosses. 



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their calivers at those Englishmen : their fortune was 

 such that they killed the Trumpetter, and shot one of 

 the principall men thorow the legge, who seeing himselfe 

 hurt, retyred to the Fort, where the rest of their company 

 was left : they which were in the Fort sounded their 

 Trumpet, and seeing that they in the towne did not 

 answere them, and hearing the calivers, thought that 

 all they in the towne had bene slaine, and thereupon 

 fled to their Pinnesses : the English captaine comming 

 to the Fort, and not finding his men which he left there, 

 he and his were in so great feare, that leaving their 

 furniture behind them, and putting off their hose, they 

 swamme, and waded all to their Pinnesses, and so went 

 with their ships againe out of the Port. 



Thus this English Captaine called Francis Drake, 

 departed from Nombre de Dios, & slew onely one man 

 in the towne which was looking out of a windowe to 

 see what the matter was, and of his men had onely his 

 Trumpetter slaine. 



But he being discontented with the repulse which he 

 had received there, came to the sound of Dariene, and 

 having conference with certaine Negros which were fled 

 from their masters of Panama, and Nombre de Dios, the 

 Negros did tell him, that certaine Mules came laden with 

 gold and silver from Panama to Nombre de Dios, who 

 in companie of these Negros went thereupon on land, 

 and stayed in the way where the treasure should come 

 with an hundred shot, and so tooke two companies of 

 mules, which came onely with their drivers mistrusting 

 nothing, and he carried away the (gold onely, for they 

 were not able to carrie the silver through the mountaines. 

 And two dayes after he came to the house of Crosses, 

 where he killed sixe or seven marchants, but found no 

 golde nor silver but much marchandize : so he fired the 

 house, where was burnt above 200000 Duckets in mar- 

 chandize, and so went to his ship againe : and within 

 halfe an houre after he was a ship-boord, there came 

 downe to the sandes three hundred shot of the Spaniards 



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