AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1578. 



brought two Spanish sheepe, and a little Maiz or rootes 

 whereof they make bread, and because it was late, they 

 returned againe unto their ship, without doing any other 

 thing for that day. 



The next day the said Captaine with the aforesaid 

 twelve men being harquebusiers, rowed to land againe, 

 and set two of their company on shore with their vessels 

 to fetch fresh water, and by the place where they should 

 fill their water there lay certaine Indians secretly hidden, 

 that fell upon the two Englishmen and tooke them : which 

 they in the boat perceiving, went out to helpe them, but 

 they were so assailed with stones & arrowes, that all or 

 Sir Francis the most part of them were hurt, the Captaine himselfe 

 A ^ being wounded with an arrow on the face, and with an 

 other arrow in the head, whereby they were constrained 

 to turne backe againe, without once hurting any of the 

 Indians, and yet they came so neere the boate, that 

 they tooke foure of their oares from them. This done, 

 they set saile againe, running along the coast with a South 

 winde, sailing so for the space of sixe dayes, passing 

 by the haven called Sant lago, and put into another 

 haven, and there they tooke an Indian that lay fishing 

 in a Canoa, giving him linnen and butchers chopping 

 knives, with other trifles, and not long after there came 

 another Indian aboord their shippe called Felippe, and 

 he spake Spanish, he gave the English Captaine notice 

 of a certaine shippe that lay in the haven of Sant lago, 

 which they had left sixe leagues behind them : with 

 that intelligence the Indian being their guide, the next 

 day they set saile and went to the aforesayd haven of 

 S. lago, and entring therein, they tooke the said shippe, 

 wherein they found a thousand seven hundred and 70 

 Botijas or Spanish pots full of wine, and other things : 

 which having done, they lept on land, where they 

 tooke certaine sackes with meale, with whatsoever they 

 could find ; they tooke likewise the ornaments and the 

 reliques out of the Church, wherewith they departed 

 from thence, taking the aforesayd shippe, with two 



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