LAST VOYAGE OF DRAKE AND HAWKINS ad. 



1596. 

 presently againe, thus the fight began. The Bonaventure The fight be- 

 bare full with her, ringing her such a peale of ordinance tzveene the 

 and small shot withall, that he left her with torne sides. ^^g^\^h ^J^d 

 The Admirall also made no spare of powder and shot. ^^1^%^^^^^ 

 But the Defiance in the middest of the Spanish fleete 

 thundering of her ordinance and small shot continued 

 the fight to the end. So that the Viceadmirall with 3 

 or 4 of her consorts were forced to tacke about to the 

 Eastward, leaving their admirall and the rest of the 

 fleete, who came not so hotly into the fight as they did. 

 The fight continued two houres & better. At sunne 

 set all the fleete tacked about to the Eastward, we con- 

 tinued our course to the Westward for cape de los 

 Corrientes, supposing we should have met with more of 

 their consorts. In this conflict in the Defiance we had 

 five men slaine, three English men, a Greeke and a Negro. 

 That night some halfe houre after, their fleete keeping 

 upon their weather quarter, we saw a mightie smoke One of the 

 rise out of one of their great ships which stayed behind : Spanish great 

 which happened by meanes of powder as we thinke, ^^'^^^ burnt. 

 and presently after she was all on a light fire, and so 

 was consumed and all burnt, as we might well perceive. 

 The next day being the second of March in the morn- 

 ing by breake of day we were hard aboord Cape de los 

 Corrientes, which is a bare low cape, having a bush of trees 

 higher than the rest some mile to the Eastward of the 

 cape. All Cuba is full of wood on the Southside. 

 The Spanish fleete which then were but 14 no more than 

 we were, kept still upon our weather quarter, but dared 

 not to come roome with us although our Admirall stayed 

 for them. Assoone as we had cleered our selves of the 

 Cape 3 of their best saylers came roome with the 

 Salomon, which was so neere the land that she could 

 not double the Cape, but tacked about to the Eastward, 

 & so was both a sterne and also to leeward of all our 

 fleete : But when we saw the Spaniards working, the 

 Defiance tacked about to rescue her : which the Spaniards 

 seeing, and having not forgotten the fight which she 



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