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Martinez sent on the 15th in a long boat to reconnoitre were taken prisoners by 

 them, or had perished in the sea.' 



The 18th, 19th, and 20th, we remained in the same port without being able to 

 get out. Juan Martinez went on taking in water ; and I, having no long-boat or 

 other boat, could do nothing ; and he but little, and that with much labour. 



On the morning of the 21st the wind began to blow from the west wdth terrible 

 violence. [It was] clear, with but little rain. 



The ship of Juan Martinez drifted down on ours. He dropped anchor with 

 another cable, and, having smashed our lantern and the tackle on our mizzen-mast, 

 brought the ship to. At midday the ship Santa Maria de la Bosa, of Martin de 

 Villa Franca,^ came in by another entrance nearer the land, towards the north- 

 west, and on coming in iired a gun, as if asking help, and another when 

 further in. 



She had all her sails torn to ribbons, except the foresail. She anchored with 

 a single anchor, as she had no more. And as the tide, which was coming in from 

 the south-east, beat against her stern, she held on till two o'clock, when it began 

 to ebb, and at the turn she commenced drifting, about two splices of cable from 

 us, and we with her; and in an instant we saw she was going to the bottom while 

 trying to hoist the foresail, and immediately she went down with the whole crew, 

 not a soul escaping — a most extraordinary and terrible occurrence. ^Ye were 

 drifting down on her to our perdition. 



It pleased our Lord that for that passage in case of such a necessity, we [had] 

 put a [new] stock to an anchor which had [only] half a stock, and which Juan 

 Martinez gave us with a cable. 



We dropped [this] anchor and her head came round ; and we hauled in the 

 other anchor, and found the stock with half the shank, for the rest was broken 

 [off] , and the cable chafed by the rocks over which we were lying. The ship of 

 Miguel de Aranivar also came in with this [ship]. 



The same evening at 4 o'clock the ship San Juan, of Fernando Horra, came in 

 wdth the mainmast gone, and, on entering, the foresail was blown to threads ; she 

 let go anchor and brought to. Owing to the gale, it was impossible to communi- 

 cate with or help her. 



On the 22nd, in the morning, he lowered his long-boat, and made known his 

 distressed condition. As it was seen to be hopeless, Juan Martinez decided that I 

 should take the whole of the company of Gonzalo Melendez, and distributed that 

 of Diego Bazan among the tenders. I urged him to leave, putting before him my 

 distressed condition ; and how, without a boat, I could not supply myself with 

 water, while bread and other stores were being used up ; to set fire to the ship 

 and to start. He wished, as will be seen, to remove the guns from that [Horra's] 



^ These men were captured and taken prisoners to Dingle, where they were examined. 

 '^ Ihis ship was vice-flagship of the Squadron of Guipuscoa, 1)43 tons, 26 guns, 2'j7 men. 



