LOPEZ VAZ AD. 



1572-87. 



Going from thence hee passed by the towne of Con- ^^^ ^'^^^^ of 

 cepcion not knowing the place, and so to Valparizo which ^^^^P'^j'^n. 

 is the port of Sant lago, where hee found a ship laden 

 with a kind of victuals and wine, and had in her besides 

 threescore thousand pezos of gold, every pezo being worth 

 eight shillings sterling : and taking this ship with him 

 hee went from thence to another port called Coquimbo : The port of 

 where seeing many cattell on the land, he sent presently ^^^^^ ^ ^^ 

 some of his men with calievers to kill of the sayd cattell : ^i^. 

 but being espied of the Spaniards that dwelt in the towne, 

 they sent twelve horsemen to see what they were that 

 killed their cattell, for they knew them not : and comming 

 neere unto them, the Englishmen fled to their boates, but 

 the horsemen overtooke one of them who had a halbard 

 in his hand, whom the Spaniards thought to have taken : 

 but hee with his halbard killing one of their horses was 

 himselfe runne through with a lance, and so the Spaniards 

 carried him dead with them into the towne. The next 

 day the newes came to Sant lago, that they were English- 

 men, and how they had taken the shippe out of the 

 harbour of Valparizo : whereupon they of Sant lago sent 

 a Post by land to give warning unto them of Peru. 

 Howbeit by reason that the countrey betweene this place 

 and Peru is not inhabited for the space of two hundreth 

 leagues, and many huge and colde mountaines covered 

 with snowe lie in the way, the Poste was so long in 

 perfourmance of this journey, that captaine Drake was 

 upon the coast of Peru a moneth before the sayd Poste 

 came thither : neither could they send any newes by sea, 

 because they were destitute of shipping. 



Captaine Drake departing from Coquimbo sayled to 

 another porte not inhabited, where he set up a pinnesse. 

 And going from thence, the next place where he touched 

 was a porte upon the coast of Peru called los Pescadores : LosPescadores. 

 and there hee landed, and in one of the fishermens houses 

 found of a Spaniards three thousand pezos of silver in 

 little barres. JHca in 1% 



From hence he went to another port called Arica, which deg. 



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