JOHN OXENHAM a.d. 



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 nothing but victuals : but this captaine of Panama not 



herewith satisfied, determined to seeke out the English- 

 men by land, and leaving twenty men in his pinnesses, 

 hee with 80 shot went up the countrey : hee had not 

 gone halfe a league, but hee found a house made of 

 boughs, where they found all the Englishmens goods, 

 and the gold and silver also, and carying it backe to 

 their pinnesses, the Spaniards were determined to goe 

 away, without following the English men any further. 



But at the end of three dayes, the English captaine ^ skirmish 

 came to the river with all his men, and above 200 ^^^^^^^ ^^^ 

 Negros, and set upon the Spaniards with great fury : anTthe ^^"' 

 But the Spaniards having the advantage of trees which Spaniards. 

 they stood behind, did easily prevaile, and killed eleven 

 Englishmen, and five Negros, and tooke other seven 

 Englishmen alive, but of the Spaniards, two were slaine 

 and five sore hurt. 



Among other things, the Spaniards enquired of the 

 Englishmen which they tooke, why they went not away 

 in fifteene dayes liberty which they had. They answered, 

 that their captaine had commanded them to carie all that 

 golde and silver which they had, to the place where they 

 had left their shippe, and they had promised him to 

 carie it, although they made three or foure journeys of 

 it, for hee promised to give them part of it besides their 

 wages, but the mariners would have it by and by, and 

 so their Captaine being angry because they would not 

 take his word, fell out with them, and they with him, 

 in so much that one of the company would have killed 

 the Captaine, so that the Captaine would not have them 

 to carie the treasure, but sayd hee would seeke Negros 

 to carie it, and so he went and sought for Negros, 

 and bringing those Negros to carie it, hee met with the 

 five English men that hee had left in his pinnesse which 

 ranne from the Spaniards, and the rest also which ran 

 from the house, and they told him what the Spaniards 

 had done, and then making friendship with all his men, 

 hee promised them halfe of all the treasure if they got 



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