NUNO DA SILVA a.d. 



1579. 

 behind, and there he found three thousand pezos of 

 silver, (every pezo being the value of a ryall of eight,) 

 and seven Indian sheepe, and hennes, & tooke al 

 whatsoever they found : wherev^ith they departed from 

 thence, following on their course. And two dayes after 

 they came to the haven called Arica, where they found Jrka. 

 two ships, the one laden with goods and Spanish 

 wares, out of the which they tooke only two hundred 

 Botijas, or Spanish pots with wine, and out of the 

 other seven and thirty barres of silver, which are 

 peeces of ten or twelve pound eche barre, and thinking 

 to leape on shore (with two barks that they found in 

 the said haven, with about seven and thirty harquebuses 

 and bowes) they perceived on the land certaine 

 horsemen comming towards them, whereupon they left 

 off their pretence, and tooke with them a Negro that 

 they found in the barks, with whom they returned 

 aboord. 



The next day in the morning they burnt the ship, 

 that was laden with the Spanish wares, and tooke the 

 other with them, passing forward with it on their 

 course, the Captaine sailing along the shore with his 

 pinnesse, and the ship keeping about a league from 

 him to seaward, to seeke for a ship wherof they had 

 intelligence : and having in that maner sailed about 

 five and forty leagues, they found the ship that lay 

 at anker in a haven, who about two houres before 

 had bene advertised of an English pirate or sea-rover, 

 and had discharged eight hundred barres of silver out 

 of her, and hidden it on the land, which silver belonged 

 to the king of Spaine, of the which silver the English- [III. 746.] 

 men had received some intelligence, but they durst not 

 go on land, because there were many Indians and 

 Spaniards that stood to gard it, and they found nothing 

 in the ship but three pipes of water : the ship they 

 tooke with them, and being about a league in the sea, 

 they hoysed up all her sailes and let her drive, doing 

 the like with the ship that they had taken in Arica, as 



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