A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1575. 



see if he might get any ship that came from Peru : At 



last there came a small Barke by, which came from Peru 

 from a place called Quito, which he tooke and found 

 in her sixtie thousand pezos of golde, and much victuals. 

 But not contenting himselfe with this prize, hee stayed 

 long without sending away his prize or any of the men, 

 and in the ende of sixe dayes after, hee tooke another 

 Barke v/hich came from Lima, in which he tooke an 

 hundred thousand pezos of silver in barres, with the 

 [III. 527.] which hee thought to have gone, & entred the river, 

 but first he went into the Islands to see if he could 

 find any pearles : where he found a few, and so returned 

 to his pinnesse againe, & so sailing to the river from 

 whence he came, and comming neere to the mouth 

 of the sayd river, hee sent away the two prizes that 

 hee tooke, and with his pinnesse he went up the river. 

 The Negros that dwelt in the Island of pearls, the same 

 night that he went from them, went in Canoas to Panama, 

 and the Governour within two dayes sent foure barkes 

 100 men, 25 in every one, and Negros to rowe with 

 the captaine John de Ortega, which went to the Island 

 of pearles, and there had intelligence, which way the 

 English men were gone, and following them he met 

 by the way the ships which the English men had taken, 

 of whom he learned, that the English men were gone 

 up the river, and he going thither, when he came to 

 the mouth of the river, the captaine of Panama knew 

 not which way to take, because there were three partitions 

 in the river to goe up in, and being determined to goe 

 up the greatest of the three rivers, he saw comming 

 downe a lesser river many feathers of hennes, which 

 the Englishmen had pulled to eate, and being glad 

 thereof, hee went up that river where hee saw the 

 feathers, and after that he had bene in that river 

 foure daies, he descried the Englishmens pinnesse upon 

 the sands, and comming to her, there were no more 

 then sixe Englishmen, whereof they killed one, and the 

 other five escaped away, and in the pinnesse he found 



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