DRAKE'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION ad. 



1579- 



When our Generall had done what hee would with 

 this Cacafuego, hee cast her off, and wee went on our 

 course still towards the West, and not long after met 

 with a ship laden with linnen cloth and fine China- 

 dishes of white earth, and great store of China-silks, of China-silks, 

 all which things wee tooke as we listed. and Porcellan. 



The owner himselfe of this ship was in her, who was 

 a Spanish Gentleman, from whom our Generall tooke a 

 Fawlcon of golde, with a great Emeraud in the breast 

 thereof, and the Pilot of the ship he tooke also with 

 him, and so cast the ship off. 



This Pilot brought us to the haven of Guatulco, the Guatuko. 

 towne whereof, as he told us, had but 17. Spaniards in 

 it. Assoone as we were entred this haven, wee landed, 

 and went presently to the towne, and to the Towne- 

 house, where we found a Judge sitting in judgement, 

 being associate with three other officers, upon three 

 Negros that had conspired the burning of the Towne : 

 both which Judges & prisoners we tooke, and brought 

 them a shipboord, and caused the chiefe Judge to write 

 his letter to the Towne, to command all the Townesmen 

 to avoid, that we might safely water there. Which being 

 done, and they departed, we ransaked the Towne, and in 

 one house we found a pot of the quantitie of a bushell, 

 full of reals of plate, which we brought to our ship. 



And here one Thomas Moone one of our company, 

 tooke a Spanish Gentleman as hee was flying out of 

 the towne, and searching him, he found a chaine of 

 golde about him, and other jewels, which he tooke, 

 and so let him goe. 



At this place our General among other Spaniards, set The Portugal 

 ashore his Portugall Pilote, which hee tooke at the Pi^ot set on 

 Islands of Cape Verde, out of a ship of S. Mary port 

 of Portugall : and having set them ashore, we departed 

 hence, and sailed to the Island of Canno, where our The Island of 

 Generall landed, and brought to shore his owne ship, ^^^^°- 

 and discharged her, mended, and graved her, and 

 furnished our ship with water and wood sufficiently. 



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