A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1591. 



After we had here refreshed our selves, wee stode 



along for Cape Tiburon, where we watered : and making 



no stay there, about the 23. of Aprill wee left our shippes 



in a faire road-sted under an Hand not inhabited, and with 



our frigats which wee had taken before, wherein wee 



shipped all our strength which possibly wee could affourd, 



leaving onely so fewe aboord our shippes as could hardly 



if neede had bene, have wrought them ; we passed along 



by the sayd Hand to the Northwest part of Hispaniola, to 



a towne called Yaguana ; where the 27. in the morning 2. 



houres before day we landed ; but wee were discovered 



by meanes of a frigat that lay laden with victuals, bound 



for Carthagena, the men of which frigat recovering on 



lande before us, gave an alarme to the towne, who were 



presently up in armes to the number of a hundred & 



fiftie horses. Wee marched notwithstanding along to the 



towne, having a Spaniard for our guide, where by that 



This towne time the day brake, we were before the towne, where upon 



standeth from ^ f^ire greene making a stand, we were encountred by the 



the waters side ]^Qj-semen having: no strength of foote, but certaine few 

 ci league • /^ 1 



loose shot which lay in a low valley at the entrie of the 



towne. The horsemen charged us very fiercely, but 

 seeing they could not prevaile, brought in a drove before 

 them of two hundred beastes or more : and so forcibly 

 thinking to have broken our array, it pleased God to 

 cause their cattell to returne backe upon themselves : and 

 thus their owne device sorted out to their owne detriment. 

 In this skirmish wee slewe their governour, a man very 

 hardy, and of great valure. 



In the end, by reason of the Spaniards brags which they 

 gave out, (as by the life of their wives and children, &c. 

 that not one of us should goe aboord againe) a greater 

 doubt of intercepting of us and of our boates was stroken 

 into our captaines hearts then needed : and so for that 

 time we retired to our boates not entring the towne, and 

 so passed with our boates to our ships againe ; where the 

 same night our captaine determined to goe up with our 

 shippes, but it fell so calme, that all the next day untill 



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