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like maner. This attempt put the townesmen in such 

 extreme feare, that leaving their houses, they fled into 

 the mountaines, and there bethought themselves what the 

 matter should be in the towne, remaining as men amazed 

 at so sudden an alarme. But the Spaniards being men 

 for the most part of good discretion joyned foureteene 

 or fifteene of them together with their pieces, to see 

 who was in the towne : and getting to a corner of the 

 market-place they discovered the Englishmen, and per- 

 ceiving that they were but a few, discharged their pieces 

 at them ; and their fortune was such, that they slew 

 [III. 779.] the trumpetter, and shot the captaine (whose name was 

 Francis Drake) into the legge : who feeling himselfe 

 hurt retired toward the Fort, where he had left the 

 rest of his men : but they in the Fort sounded their 

 trumpet, and being not answered againe, and hearing 

 the calivers discharged in the towne, thought that their 

 fellowes in the towne had bene slaine, and thereupon 

 fled to their Pinnesses. Now Francis Drake (whom his 

 men carried because of his hurt) when he came to the 

 fort where he left his men and saw them fled, he and 

 the rest of his company were in so great feare, that 

 leaving their furniture behinde them, and putting off 

 their hose, they swamme & waded all to their Pinnesses, 

 and departed forth of the harbour, so that if the Span- 

 iards had followed them, they might have slaine them 

 all. Thus Captaine Drake did no more harme at 

 Nombre de Dios, neither was there in this skirmish 

 any more then one Spaniarde slaine, and of the Eng- 

 lishmen onely their Trumpetter, whom they left behind 

 with his trumpet in his hand. 



From hence the coast lieth all along till you come 

 to Cartagena. Betweene Nombre de Dios and Carta- 

 gena is a great sound or gulfe, where the first Spaniardes 

 that ever dwelt upon the firme land built and inhabited 

 the towne of Dariene : howbeit they abode not long 

 there, because of the unholesomenesse of the place. 



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