AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1587. 



her boate and tooke away her foresaile and certaine 



victuals. 

 They met The 1 7 of May wee met with our admirall againe, 



their feete ^^^j ^jj ^j^^ j-^g^. ^jp q^j. flgete. They had taken two 



Two rich ships ^^^ps? the one laden with sugar, molosses, maiz, Cor- 



taken. dovan-skinnes, montego de Porco, many packes of 



pintados, many Indian coates, and some marmalade, 



and 1000 hennes : and the other ship was laden with 



07te shippe wheate-meale, and boxes of marmalade. One of these 



worth 20000 ships which had the chiefe marchandise in it, was worth 



^^^^ ^' twentie thousand pounds, if it had bene in England or 



in any other place of Christendome where wee might 



have solde it. Wee filled all our ships with as much 



as wee could bestow of these goods : the rest wee burnt 



and the ships also ; and set the men and women that 



were not killed on shoare. 



The bay of The 20 day in the morning wee came into the road 



Paita in 5 q£ Paita, and being at an anker, our Generall landed 



egiees\min. ^-^^ sixtie or seventie men, skirmished with them of 



the towne, and drave them all to flight to the top of 



the hill which is over the towne, except a few slaves 



and some other which were of the meaner sort, who 



were commanded by the governours to stay below in 



A nezvfort in the towne, at a place which is in building for a fort, 



building. having with them a bloodie ensigne, being in number 



about one hundred men. Nowe as wee were rowing 



betweene the ships and the shoare, our gunner shot oiF 



a great peece out of one of the barkes, and the shot fel 



among them, and drave them to flie from the fort as 



fast as they might runne, who got them up upon an hill, 



and from thence shot among us with their small shot. 



The towne of After wee were landed and had taken the towne, wee 



^^^[\^ ran upon them, and chased them so fiercely up the 



hilles for the space of an houre that wee drave them 



in the ende away perforce, and being got up the hilles, 



wee found where they had layd all their stuffe which 



they had brought out of the towne, and had hidden 



it there upon the mountaines. We also found the 



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