AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1572-87. 



small trust in his word, would not suffer his saylers to 

 Carrie it, but said he would get Negros to serve his turne, 

 and so these were the Negros aforesaid, whom he had 

 brought to carry away the golde and silver: but by the 

 way he met with the five Englishmen which fled from 

 the pinnesse, who told him of the Spaniards; and then 

 he made friends with all his men, and got the Negros 

 to take his part : but having the overthrow, and his best 

 men being slaine and taken prisoners, he thought to 

 have returned to his ship, and so to have gone for 

 England. The Spanish captaine having heard this dis- 

 course of the English prisoners, buried the dead bodies, 

 embarking all things, and with the Englishmen and their 

 pinnesse returned backe unto Panama. Thus was the 

 Englishmens voyage overthrowen. 



Now so soone as the foure barkes and the pinnesse were 

 arrived at Panama, the Governour of that place sent a 

 messenger overland to Nombre de Dios, to advertise the 

 townesmen, where the Englishmens ship lay : whereupon 

 they of Nombre de Dios manned out foure ships and 

 went into the bay of Dariene where the Englishmen 

 had left their ship, which they tooke away with them to 

 Nombre de Dios, with all her ordinance ; so that the 

 poore Englishmen were left in the mountaines very naked 

 and destitute of all comfort: for the Spaniards had taken 

 out of the foresayd house of boughes all their tooles & 

 other necessaries, so that they could by no meanes have 

 any succour : whereas otherwise they might have builded 

 another pinnesse, and provided better for themselves to 

 have returned for their owne countrey. 



These newes comming to the eares of the Viceroy of 

 Peru, he thought it not convenient to suffer those fiftie 

 Englishmen which were yet alive, to continue in the 

 mountaines among the said Negros. Wherefore he sent 

 a servant of his called Diego de Frees with 150 shot 

 to seeke them, who at length found them making of 

 Canoas to take some one small barke or other that sayled 

 to and againe in the North sea, whereby they might the 



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