A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1579. 



the Master, Pilote, and some Negros, out of the which 



shippe the Englishmen tooke the pilote, and all the 

 bread, hennes and a hogge, and so sailed forward with 

 the ship : but being about two harquebuse shot to sea- 

 ward, they let it goe againe, not taking any thing out of 

 it, and asking after the ship, which they sought for, they 

 told them that about two dayes before she departed from 

 that place, wherewith they followed on their course, and 

 before night they met with a ship of Panama, which they 

 presently boorded, but tooke nothing from her but onely 

 a Negro, and so left it, holding on their course. 



The next day being the first of Februarie, they met 

 another ship that sailed to Panama, laden with fish and 

 other victuals, and fortie barres of silver, and some gold, 

 but I know not how much, which they tooke, and sent the 

 passengers (with two friers that were in her) in a boate 

 [III. 747.] to land. The next day they hanged a man of the ship, 

 because hee would not confesse two plates of golde that 

 he had taken, which after they found about him : which 

 done, they let the ship drive, following on their course. 



The first of March towards noone, they espied the 

 ship laden with silver, being about foure leagues to sea- 

 ward from them : and because the English ship was 

 somewhat heavie before, whereby it sailed not as they 

 would have it, they tooke a company of Botijas or 

 A pret'ie de- Spanish pots for oyle, and filling them with water, hung 

 vm to make^ them by ropes at the sterne of the ship to make her sayle 

 their shipsaik ^^ better : and the shippe that sayled towardes Panama 

 mou swij J. j^^^g towards the English shippe to know what shee was, 

 thinking it to bee one of the shippes that used to saile 

 along the coastes, and to traffique in the countrey : and 

 beeing hard by her, the English Captaine badde them 

 strike, but the other refusing to doe it, with a great 

 peece hee shotte her mast overboord, and having wounded 

 the Master with an arrowe, the shippe presently yeelded, 

 which they tooke, and sayled with her further into the 

 sea, all that night and the next day and night, making 

 all the way they could. 



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