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it from the Spaniards, and the Negros promised to helpe 



him with their bowes and arrowes, and thereupon they 

 came to seeke the Spaniards, and now that some of his 

 company were killed and taken, hee thought it best to 

 returne to his ship, and to passe backe for England. 

 The Spanish captaine hearing this, having buried the 

 dead bodies, and having gotten all things into his barkes, 

 and taking the English men and their pinnesse with 

 him, he returned to Panama : so the voyage of that 

 English man did not prosper with him, as hee thought 

 it would have done. 



Nowe when the foure barkes were come to Panama, 

 they sent advise also to Nombre de dios, and they of 

 Nombre de dios sent also from them other foure barkes 

 which (as the Spaniards say) found the English ship 

 where she was hid, and brought her to Nombre de dios : 

 and that the Viceroy of Peru not thinking it good to 

 suffer fiftie English men to remaine in the countrey, 

 sent a servant of his called Diego de Frees, with a 

 hundreth and fifty shot into the mountaines to seeke 

 them out, who found them making of certaine Canoas 

 to goe into the North sea, and there to take some barke 

 The English or other : some of them were sicke, and were taken, 

 betrayed to the and the rest fled with the Negros, who in the end 

 Spaniards. betrayed them to the Spaniards, so that they were brought 

 to Panama. And the Justice of Panama asked the 

 English captaine whether hee had the Queenes licence, 

 or the licence of any other Prince or Lord for his attempt. 

 And he answered he had none, whereupon hee and all 

 his company were condemned to dye, and so were all 

 executed, saving the Captaine, the Master, the Pilot, 

 and five boyes which were caried to Lima, and there 

 The death of the Captaine was executed with the other two, but the 

 John Oxnam. bo^gg be yet living. 



[III. 528.] The King of Spaine having intelligence of these 



matters, sent 300 men of warre against those Negros 

 which had assisted those English men, which before 

 were slaves unto the Spaniards, and as before is sayd, 



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