A.D. 



1595- 



Certain vil- 

 lage! about 

 Sant lago 

 fired. 



ThecitieofS, 

 lago burned. 



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small summe of money among so many, did utterly refuse 

 it. So the Spaniard departed. But before his departure 

 our general told him, that if he came not to him again 

 before the next day noone, with the ransome which he 

 demanded, he would set all on fire. That whole day 

 past, and the night also without any thing of moment, 

 except some shew of assault, by their approching towards 

 our Corps du guard, and retiring backe againe. The 3 

 day being come, in the morning some of our company 

 went forth, a league or more from the towne, & some two 

 leagues and more unto certaine villages thereabout, & set 

 them on fire : but the enemy never came to resist them, 

 so they returned backe againe safe into the towne, and 

 brought certaine Indian prisoners with them, among 

 whom there was one which spake broken Spanish, which 

 being examined, confessed unto us of his own accord, 

 how the General had sent to the other towns thereabout 

 for aide, and that he thought they would be there with 

 him that day. When we understood this, we grew into 

 some distrust of the Spaniards trechery, and thought 

 upon the messenger, how he had used long delayes with 

 us : wherupon we were commanded presently, every 

 man to make ready to depart, and to fire the citie : which 

 forthwith was done. And after we had scene it all on 

 fire, & burnt to ashes, we tooke our leaves and so 

 departed, & marched away that day being the 3 of June, 

 not that way we came, but by the great beaten way. 

 And when we had marched halfe the way towards the 

 waters side, we came unto that strong baricado which they 

 had made, and there lay all that night. Here we found 

 the Spanish captaines word to be true which we tooke 

 at the fort by the waters side : for this baricado was of 

 such force, that 100 men in it wel furnished, would 

 have kept backe from passing that way 1 00000: first 

 by reason of the huge and high mountaines, next the 

 steepenes of them, on both sides, last of all in regard 

 of the fine contriving of it with the large trenches, and 

 other munitions, which I cease to recite. The fourth 



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