AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1572-87. 



being the next towne to Chili that the Spaniards have in all 

 Peru, containeth an hundreth houses : and this is the porte 



[III. 792.] where they discharge their merchandize that passe from 

 Lima toPotossi, and to all other cities within the land, and 

 likewise at this place they were woont to embarke all the 

 silver which they caried for Panama. At this port of 

 Arica he found a ship that had in her thirteene thousand 

 pezos of silver, which having taken out, he burned the 

 sayd ship, and after thought to have landed, but seeing 

 both horsemen and footemen on shore hee would not, but 

 proceeded on his voyage. Since captaine Drake was at 

 this porte they carie their silver by land to Lima, and lade 

 no more treasure here, but onely discharge the merchants 

 goods that come from Spaine hither. Also they have 

 built a forte at this place for the better safety of the 

 inhabitants, and have planted it with ten pieces of 

 Ordinance, and every summer there lie in garison an 

 hundred souldiers besides the townesmen. From hence 



Chuli. he sayled to another porte called Chuli : in which port 



was a ship that had three hundred thousand pezos of 

 silver in barres : but they had sent horsemen from Arica 

 to give advertizement of Drakes being on the coast, which 

 newes came but two houres to the towne before his 

 arrivall at the sayd porte : whereupon the Master of the 

 shippe having no leisure to carie his silver on shore, was 

 forced to throwe it into the sea in sixe fadome water, 

 where his ship road, and so to runne on shore in the 

 shippes boate. And captaine Drake comming aboord the 

 ship was told by an Indian, that the Master had throwen 

 the silver overboord. Wherfore seeing that newes began , 

 to run of him from towne to town he stayed not here, but 

 ran along the coast : and because he would have no lets, 

 he cast off the ship which he had taken at Sant lago, with 

 never a man in her, which ship was never heard of after. 

 And so without staying any where he shaped his course 



El Callao de for Lima, and comming to the harborough of Lima called 



Lima. £j Callao, being two leagues distant from Lima it selfe, 



(for Lima standeth up into the land) hee arrived there one 



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