A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1595. 



Captaine Preston comming before this yland with one 

 ship only sought with 2. long boats to land his men 

 & to force the same : but the people were on shore 

 in warlike array, with baricados & trenches made, ready 

 to withstand them. Whereupon, considering the great 

 • danger, and disadvantage of the place, he caused his 

 people to returne abord againe. And the next morning 

 3 or 4 houres before day, he landed in a place of greater 

 security, with 60 men onely, who lay closely in a chapel, 

 to defend themselves from the raine til break of the day, 

 and so marched forward upon the backs of their enemies, 

 which kept their baricados upon the shore. By this time 

 the enemie was 500 strong. But, being so suddenly 

 surprised, after some resistance of our muskets, when 

 they saw our pikes approch, and had tasted somewhat 

 of their force they began to flee into certaine thickets, & 

 shrubs, thinking from thence to gall our men : but with 

 very litle or no losse at all, our men dislodged them of 

 that place also. Hereupon, they all fled toward the 

 chiefe towne of the yland : but once againe they thought 

 to make a new stand at a certaine house by the way, from 

 whence they were repulsed by captaine Roberts. So in 

 the flight part of them were slaine, and an ensigne, 

 which one captaine Harvey an English man had lost 

 not long before, was recovered : and the chiefe towne 



The yle of it selfe was by our men wholly woon and possessed. 



Puerto Santo ^^^ before the entrance of our men they had conveisfhed 



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chiefe towne their wives, their children, and the rest of their goods 

 in it burnt. into an exceeding high hil which standeth neere the 

 towne, and could not be conquered, but with exceeding 

 losse. Although they sent divers times to redeeme their 

 towne, which was very faire and large, yet in regard of 

 their crueltie and treachery, which they used towards 

 captaine Harvey and his people, captaine Preston would 

 shew them no favour, but utterly burnt their towne to 

 ashes, and sent his men to wast the rest of their villages 

 of the yland, preferring the honour & just revenge of 

 his country men, before his owne private gaine, & 



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