NUNC DA SILVA ad. 



1579. 

 killed one of the Englishmen, wherewith they turned 

 againe into their shippe, and presently set saile, follow- 

 ing after the ship, which not long after they overtooke : 

 which they of the shippe perceiving hoysed out their 

 boate, and leaping into it, rowed to the land, leaving 

 the shippe with all the goods, which the Englishmen 

 presently tooke, and with her sayled on their course. 



The next day they saw a boat with sailes making 

 towards them, whereby they presently mistrusted it to 

 be a spie, and not long after they perceived two great 

 ships comming towards them, which made the English 

 thinke they came to fight with them, whereupon they 

 let the shippe of Panama drive, therein leaving John 

 the Greeke, with the two men that they had taken 

 the same day that they entred into the Calao de Lyma, 

 as I sayde before, and presently hoysed all their sailes, 

 and sailed forward, not once setting eye againe upon the 

 aforesayde ships, for they made towards the ship of 

 Panama, which the Englishmen let drive. From thence 

 they sailed againe along the coast, following on their 

 course : and having sailed certaine dayes, they met a 

 frigate that went towards Lyma, laden with wares and 

 merchandises of the countrey, from whence the English- 

 men tooke a lampe and a fountaine of silver, and asked 

 the pilote being a Spaniard, if they met not with a ship, 

 that they understood should be laden with silver, but the 

 one Pilote saide he met her not, and the other said he 

 saw her about three dayes before. This frigat came not 

 to the ship, but to the pinnesse, wherein the Captaine 

 sailed, for the pinnesse ranne close by the shore, and the 

 ship kept a league and a halfe from the lande : where- 

 upon they let the frigate goe, following on their course. 



Two dayes after, they came to the haven called Payta, Payta. 

 where they found a ship laden with Spanish wares, which 

 the pinnesse boorded, and tooke without any resistance : 

 for assoone as the Spaniards perceived the Englishmen, 

 they presently made to land with their boate, and two of 

 them lept into the sea, none staying in the shippe, but 



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