A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1587. 



great importance for safegard of this Harbour, because 

 all the Shippes which doe enter into this Harbour doe 

 come close to this place where it is strongest, so that 

 sometimes one may cast a stone into the ships when they 

 are comming in : and when any ship of warre or Pirate 

 will give any attempt to enter into this Harbour, there is 

 The gallies of order given that the two galleys shall go forth, and put 

 Cartagena. themselves behinde the Fort with their prows to the sea, 

 and so shooting at their enemies in the forepart of the 

 ship, and then the Fort answering likewise with their 

 ordinance at the side of the shippe, and at their tackling, 

 so the enemie being in the Harbour all unrigged, they 

 must of necessitie be constrained to lye hovering within 

 the Harbour, or els they must drive upon the rockes 

 called the Ismo, or els upon those rocks which are covered 

 with the sea at the Hand of Cares. 



And put case that in this place we can doe no good by 

 this meanes, and that the enemie will venture to come 

 in with their long boates & Pinnesses through this narrow 

 mouth ; then we are to have in a readinesse 4. Frigats 

 to ayde and helpe the gallies, & to row with oares, and 

 so to go to the narrow mouth, and there to stay in the 

 channell. And forasmuch as the entring in is so danger- 

 ous, according as I have certified your Majestic, there 

 can no ship come into this harbour, but we must needes 

 sinke them ; so that these defences shall not onely bee 

 [III. 551.] annoyance to the enemie, but also animate and encourage 

 the inhabitants of this citie : for they have beene and are 

 in such feare of the enemie, and pirates, that if wee had 

 not made these fortifications, strengthened the citie in 

 this order, and put some souldiers in garison, the 

 citizens would have fledde, and forsaken this citie : for 

 all the perswasions made to them by the governour 

 coulde not perswade them to the contrary, but they 

 would bee gone, if it had not beene for this fortification, 

 and yet for all this wee have much to doe to make them 

 to stay here : so nowe by reason of these souldiers which 

 shall come hither, the people of the citie have taken 



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