CANDISH'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION ad. 



1587. 

 had small leasure to carrie any thing with them ; but all 

 the men skaped, among whom there were certaine friers : 

 for wee sawe them in their friers weedes as they ran on 

 shoare : many horsemen came from the towne to rescue 

 them, and to carrie them away, otherwise wee had landed 

 and taken or killed them. So wee went aboord the barke 

 as she lay sunke, and fetched out the pillage : but there 

 was nothing in it of any value, and came aboord our 

 shippes againe the same night : and the next morning wee 

 set the great shippe on iire in the road, and sunke 

 one of the barkes, and carried the other along with 

 us, and so departed from thence, and went away North- 

 west. 



The 27 day wee tooke a small barke, which came from The first 

 S. lago neere unto Quintero, where wee lost our men ^^^'j^^^f advise 

 first. In this barke was one George a Greeke, a reason- 

 able pilot for all the coast of Chili. They were sent to 

 the citie of Lima with letters of adviso of us, and of 

 the losse of our men. There were also in the sayde 

 barke one Flemming and three Spaniards : and they were 

 all sworne and received the Sacrament before they came to 

 sea by three or foure friers, that if wee should chance 

 to meete them, they should throw those letters over 

 boord : which (as wee were giving them chase with our 

 pinnesse) before wee could fetch them up, they had accord- 

 ingly thro wen away. Yet our Generall wrought so with 

 them, that they did confesse it : but hee was faine 

 to cause them to bee tormented with their thumbes 

 in a wrinch, and to continue them at severall times 

 with extreme paine. Also hee made the old Flemming 

 beleeve that hee would hang him ; and the rope being 

 about his necke hee was pulled up a little from the 

 hatches, and yet hee would not confesse, chusing rather Agoodmindif 

 to die, then hee would bee perjured. In the end it was he had bene in 

 confessed by one of the Spaniards, whereupon wee burnt 

 the barke, and carried the men with us. 



The third of May wee came into a bay where are 

 three little townes, which are called Paracca, Chincha, and 



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