JOURNAL OF GALLEGO. 213 



at them with a small cannon and some muskets. At this, they took 

 to flight . . . (mas que de paieia). Although we had been 

 away from the ships a long time and were endeavouring to return, 

 we were delayed in arriving at them, as we were opposed by the 

 east winds. 



'*■ Being anchored on Sunda}' at a small uninhabited island, we 

 determined to send before us a canoe with nine soldiers, a sailor, 

 and an Indian who had always accompanied us. Whilst they were 

 coasting along, not daring to stand out to sea, they got on some 

 reefs. Through their negligence, the canoe was broken in pieces ; 

 and by God's mercy, the people escaped with the loss of what they 

 carried, their muskets and ammunition being wetted. When they 

 were all collected together, they resolved to return to the brigan- 

 tine ; and the Indian ran away from them, although he did not 

 belong to that land. Having walked all that night over the stones 

 and rocks along the coast, for fear of meeting the Indians, they 

 came to a point where they found a cross which they had put up 

 when they passed by there ; and they worshipped it, and deter- 

 mined to await there the arrival of the brigantine. They put up a 

 flag luhich loas seen hy us as we came along . . } We went to 

 receive them and found them in a sorry plight (maltratados). Con- 

 tinuing our voyage, we came to where the}'- had been wrecked 

 amongst some reefs close to an islet, in which they had left two 

 hogs that they carried with them. A canoe was sent for them (the 

 hogs) and they were taken. Near here we anchored, because there 

 was much wind. As the w-eather was fine and the wind was ofi" 

 the land, we went inside the reefs, looking out for our ships all that 

 day and part of the night. We made sail the next day at dawn, 

 and arrived at the port of Santa Isabel de la Estrella, \\here we 

 found the ships, to the no small satisfaction of both those on board 

 and of ourselves.^ 



" The same day on which we arrived at Santa Isabel de la 

 Estrella, I told the General that it was necessary to refit the ships, 

 and that soon afterwards we should proceed further on to follow up 

 what we had begun. Accordingly, on the 8th of the said month, 



^ " Visto por losque en el veniaraos soyechamos lo que podia ser." 



2 From the context it may be inffirred that the brigantine completed the circuit of the 

 island of Isabel. Figueroa, in his narrative, expressly states tliat the brigantine turned the 

 west end of the island, and encountered head easterly winds in her return to the ships. 

 Figueroa also tells us that during the absence of the brigantine some of the men in the ships 

 had died of sickness ; but Gallego does not refer to this circumstance. 



