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The last of Jan : we returned from the pich land to 

 Pun6lo Gallo, hoping to meet our men which we sent 

 into Orenoke. 



The first of Februarie the sentenell which we had layd 

 to the eastward of Pun6to Gallo to discover if anyshipps 

 or boates cam from the east alongst the coast, for we 

 could not discouer any thing wher we rode till they were 

 within a mile of vs by that the poyn6l lay out so farr ; 

 these of the sentenell discovered 7 Indiens and brought 

 them vnto vs. They had a village some 16 mile from vs 

 to the eastward, and as it proued afterward came but as 

 spies to discouer our forces, they were two dayes, abord 

 and would be acknown, that they could speake any word 

 of Spanish, but by signes they made vs knOw that they 

 dwelt but one dayes jurney towards the east. I keipt 3 

 of them abord and senf 12 of my men with the other 4 

 to see their towne and to trade with them, but in ther 

 way thitherward one of the Viceadmiralls men espied an 

 Indien, one of the 4 who two yeere before he had scene 

 in Orenoke, and taking him by the arme told him that he 

 knew him, and that he could speake Spanish, in the end 

 after many threates, he spake, and confest, that one of 

 the three abord my shipp could also speake Spanishe ; 

 whervppon the Viceadmiralls man returning abord mee, 

 and I threating the cheif of these which I had keipt, one 

 of them spake Spanish, and told mee that certayne Indiens 

 of the dround lands inhabited by a nation called Tibitivas 

 ariving in a Canoa att his port, told him that the Inglish 

 in Orenoke had taken S^. Thome, slaine DiEGO DE 

 Palmita* the Governour, slayne Cap : Ekenetta, and 

 Cap: John Rues, and that the rest of the Spanierds 



* Diego Palomeque de Acuna. 



