LAST VOYAGE OF DRAKE AND HAWKINS ad. 



1596. 



The 28 died Abraham Kendall out of the Saker. 

 At this place we watered againe, washed our ships & 

 made new sailes, it being by the Generall and all the 

 captaines agreed, that if we could by any meanes turne 

 up againe for Santa Martha, we should, if not, to goe 

 directly for England. Here also we tooke in some 

 balast as our neede required. 



The 6 of Februarie the Elizabeth of M. Wattes was 

 discharged and sunke, and that day the Pegasus jolly 

 was going on shore for water, carying no guarde : The 

 Spaniards perceiving it came downe upon them, killed 

 two of them, and tooke 2 or 3 prisoners, and so ranne up 

 into the woods againe. 



The seventh the Delight and captaine Edens frigat 

 were discharged and sunke because they were old and 

 leaked, and the Queenes ships wanted saylers. 



That day our men being mustered we had 

 sicke and whole 2000. And the next day we set 

 on shore all our prisoners as Spaniards and Negros. 

 But before at our first comming to Puerto Bello sir 

 Thomas sent two of those Spaniards to Nombre de 

 Dios and to Panama to fetch ransome for some of the 

 chiefest prisoners, but they never returned againe. As 

 we were setting saile there came one with a flagge of 

 truce, and told the General that they had taken 18 of 

 our men, and that they were well used, adding that if 

 he would stay 8 or 10 dayes longer they should 

 be brought from Panama. We supposed this to have 

 bene but a delay to have kept us there while the 

 kings forces had come about by sea, as they dayly ex- 

 pected. We set saile the 8 of Februarie, turning up for 

 Santa Martha, and the 14 day we saw the Hands of Baru 

 some 14 leagues to the Westward of Carthagena : The 

 Generall that night told us he would stand in for the 

 towne of Baru in the bay : but that night blew 

 so much winde and continued that small moone, that 

 the same night we lost the Foresight, and the next day 

 standing againe to make the land which we had made, 

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