AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1595. 



the mouth of the sound, which hath a white clifFe or 

 spot in the Westnorthwest part of the Island. The 

 land all about the cape riseth all in homocks or broken 

 steepie hils. A league Southwest within that, (for so 

 falleth the land thereabout) there standeth on the top 

 of a cliffe a watch-house : and a little within that a 

 small Island : you may goe in betweene the maine and 

 it, or to leeward if you lust : and hard within that is 

 Santa Martha the rode and towne of Santa Martha, which at 11 of 

 taken, ^j^g clocke we tooke, the people all being fled, except a 



few Spaniards, Negros & Indians, which in a bravado 

 at our landing gave us some 30 or 40 shot, & so ran 

 away. 



That night their Lieutenant generall was taken and 

 some little pillage brought in out of the woods : for in 

 the town nothing was left but the houses swept clean. 

 In all the main is not a richer place for gold : for the 

 hops were mixt with the earth in every place, and also 

 in the sand a little to the leewards of the towne. In 

 the bay wee had a bad rode by reason of a small moone, 

 for every small moone maketh foule weather all the 

 maine along. 



The 21, the Generall caused the towne to be burnt, 

 and all the ships to wey, and stood out, many of the 

 souldiers being imbarked where the Generall had 

 appointed, in the small ships which rode neerest the 

 shore. We lost that night the company of the Phenix, 

 captaine Austin, Peter Lemond, and the Garlands 

 pinnesse, which stood along the shore, and being chased 

 off by gallies out of Carthagena Peter Lemond with nine 

 of our men was taken, the rest came safe to our 

 [III. 587.] fleete. 



The 26 we saw the Hands some twelve leagues to the 



Eastward of Nombre de Dios standing in toward the 



shore, but toward night we stood to the offin untill the 



next day. 



Nombre de The 27 we came into the mouth of Nombre de Dios, 



Dios taken. and by one of the clocke tooke the towne, the people 



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