A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1595. 



Phenix went so' neere the shore by the Generals com- 



mandement, that shee strake on ground, but got off 



againe. There lieth to the Eastward of the towne a 



Asholdof mile or thereabout a shold of sand: therefore give a 



sand. birth some halfe league or more before you come 



right against the town. There wee came to anker in 



two fadomes, but the great ships rode off in five and 



[III. 586.] sixe fadomes. There is a fresh river about a bow-shot 



A fresh river, ^q ^^ Eastward of the towne; whereinto our pin- 



nesses could scarse enter by reason of a barre of sand 



in the rivers mouth, but within it is navigable for 



barkes of twenty or thirty tunnes some sixe or eight 



leagues up. 



The sixth day the Spaniards came in to talke about 

 the ransome of the towne, but not to the Generall his 

 liking: and that night Sir Thomas Baskervil marched 

 up into the countrey to over-runne those parts : and 

 the Generall the same night with some hundreth and 

 fiftie men went by water sixe leagues to the Eastward, 

 La Rancheria and tooke the Rancheria a fisher towne, where they 

 taken. ^X2^g for pearle. The people all fled except some sixteene 



or twenty souldiers, which fought a little, but some 

 were taken prisoners, besides many Negros, with some 

 store of pearles and other pillage. In the houses we 

 refreshed our selves, and were all imbarked to come 

 away, and then had sight of a brigandine or a dredger, 

 which the Generall tooke within one houres chase with 

 his two barges : she had in her Indie-wheat, which we call 

 Maiz, and some silver and pearle, but of small value. 



On Saturday the seventh, master Yorke captaine of 

 the Hope dyed of sicknes, and then master Thomas 

 Drake the Generals brother was made captaine of the 

 Hope, and master Jonas Bodenham captaine of the 

 Adventure, and master Charles Caesar captaine of the 

 Amitie. 



The tenth day the Spaniards concluded for the ran- 

 some of the towne for 24000 ducats, and one prisoner 

 promised to pay for his ransome 4000 ducats. 



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