CANDISH'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION ad. 



1588. 



kept him still aboord and caused him to send those 



men which brought him aboord backe to the island to 



cause the rest of the principals to come aboord : who 



were no sooner gone on shore, but presently the people 



of the island came downe with their cocos and potato 



rootes, and the rest of the principals likewise came 



aboord and brought with them hennes and hogges : Hennes and 



and they used the same order with us which they ^^^<S?^-^' 



doe with the Spaniardes. For they tooke for every 



hog (which they cal Balboye) eight rials of plate, and 



for every henne or cocke one riall of plate. Thus we 



rode at anker all that day, doing nothing but buying 



rootes, cocos, hennes, hogges, and such things as they 



brought, refreshing our selves marveilously well. 



The same day at night beeing the fifteenth of January 

 1588, Nicolas Roderigo the Portugal, whom wee tooke 

 out of the great Santa Anna at the Cape of California, 

 desired to speake with our General in secret : which 

 when our General understood, he sent for him, & 

 asked him what he had to say unto him. The Portugal 

 made him this answer, that although he had offended 

 his worship heretofore, yet nowe hee had vowed his [in. 819.] 

 faith and true service unto him, and in respect thereof 

 he neither could nor would conceale such treason as 

 was in working against, him and his company: and that 

 was this. That the Spaniard which was taken out of The treason of 

 the great sant Anne for a Pilote, whose name was ^he Spanish 

 Thomas de Ersola, had written a letter, and secretly ^.^^/^^ 

 sealed it and locked it up in his cheste, meaning to The copy of 

 convey it by the inhabitants of this island to Manilla, the Spanish 

 the contents whereof were : That there had bene two ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ 

 English ships along the coast of Chili, Peru, Nueva ^j-^our of 

 Espanna, and Nueva Galicia, and that they had taken Manilla, 

 many shippes and marchandize in them, and burnt which was 

 divers townes, and spoiled all that ever they could come P^^"^ ^^ ^^^ 

 unto, and that they had taken the kings ship which \^^^l]]^J^^^ i^ 

 came from Manilla and all his treasure, with all the Timothy Shot- 

 marchandize that was therein ; and had set all the ton. 



