A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1591. 



spared it, because wee found other contentment. And 

 having taken our pleasure of the towne, as aforesayd, wee 

 returned aboord our ships, standing backe againe for 

 Truxillo, we discovered one of the shippes which was 

 laden at Puerto de Cavallos : but they had espied us 

 before, as it should seeme ; for they had conveyed away 

 as much as possibly they could ashore, and set their ship 

 on fire ; which so soone as we had discried, we made to 

 her with our boats, and quenched the fire, and loaded up 

 with hides the shippe which we tooke at our first 

 comming ; for she had but a thousand hides in her, and 

 certeine jarres of balsamum : which being accomplished, 

 wee sunke the shippe with the rest of the goods, and 

 so stood alongst againe for Truxillo. It fell out to 

 be so calme, that we were two and twenty dayes sailing 

 backe that we had sailed in sixe dayes, which was about 

 forty leagues : so that when we came before Truxillo, 

 which was about the sixth of June, we found another 

 of the ships there, but close under the castle, her ruther 

 unhanged, her sailes taken from the yards, &c. not- 

 withstanding we entered her, but they had placed such 

 a company of musketiers under a rampire, which they 

 had made with hides and such like, that it was too 

 bote for us to abide, and so betaking us to our shippes 

 againe, and standing out of the bay into the sea, wee 

 discovered great store of shot intrenched in those places 

 where they suspected we would have landed. That night 

 there fell such a storme of raine, thunder, lightening and 

 tempestuous weather, that our ships were dispersed either 

 from other. And having determined all of us to meet at 

 a certeine Island, where wee purposed to water and refresh 

 our selves ; by meanes of the storme and other contagious 

 weather which followed, we were frustrated of that hope. 



We had lost our prize, and certeine frigats with the 

 men. Two of our shippes went to seeke our prize and 

 our men : and other two of us came homeward. And so 

 we parted, not hearing either of other untill we came 

 into England. 



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