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fixteen Mufqueteet, and climbing up the Mountain, found a Village behind 



the fame, where all things were in Alarm, Drums beating, Trumpets found- ***** 



m g> Bells ringing, the Villagers fuddenly firing their Gt/ns on r.S^ who 



being fupply d with thirty four Men, Encountered the Enemy fo Valiamlv 



that he fled into the Woods, not without the lofs of Men and^orfes The 



Guns with which they had fhot in the Night lay onely on a Redoubt : Ter Ber- 



TandlTf J 7' M r rCh ' d ^ thC W °° ds > and ft « thc *•* Com. , 



sunder Andrew Munes Iferrerairo m his Horfe, got great ftore of Treafure which 



fi're an^kUl-d ;iUh Ce H b£ r ng ^ ^ ^^ ^ h Vill^IeS 

 Zl} Tur l l ° rfCS ' and Wei S h ' d Anchor wit " the Admiral Brewer 



to McW/^ Csjn* where not being able to Land, becaufe of the many ob- 

 fcore Rocks and Shoals, they fet Sail to CaftrV, which they conquered and burnt 

 without the leaft refiftancc : This City fituate on a Mountain is (lately buTl 

 among Flowry Meadows, delightful Orchards, and brave Fountains . the Sea 

 before it flows daily fourteen Foot. Brewer alfo burnt a Sfanijh Ship, and fet 

 fome Houfes afire, took three Spaniards Prifoners on Las Babias, whoinform'd 

 him, that the Winter Seafon was almoft over, but that it was never known 



Houfif T P OV !; T^V ? WCather § Cnerall y ufin S "> bI ™ dowa 



a nT?;7 rees ' ?i?a ^t afunder5 that therc was much G ° id «» <y— 



and fi^ ; which laftthey^ad fome years fince deferred for hunger, but it 

 was fince Garnfon'd by three hundred CaJi.Hans, that none could get ft the Fort 

 Concern (which lay a League Wefterly from thence) but in a fmall Boat, that 

 there were on the , near wo ^^ ^^^ Morcoy aa 



Matron call dLy.^, f rom Qutnuan, one of the Illes in the &« In. 

 J-and-Sea being fetch d from thence, gave information, that forty years fince, 

 before the 7„</ M „, took up Arms, the Spaniard, were quietly fetled in Oforno, and 

 in io good a condition, that an ordinary Planter had at leaft three hundred 

 Slaves, or which, every one was to procure a certain quantity of Gold . that the 

 Ifles Cbdoves were divided into above a hundred Colonies or Plantations, the 

 Qbthfes ferving the Caftdians as their true Governors , thofe that do good Service 

 the King of the Colony makes them Commanders; and that the<W«had 

 Rebell d ,n feveral places. Brewer on the <?&/„ requeft took fome of them, 

 with their Wives and Children into his Ship, furnifh'd with Arms, he digg'd 

 a Cheft of Silver and a Brafs Gun out of the Earth , and foon after being fick 



rl o-i r , UCCClT0r ^ Herhnms F ofecutin g thofe Publick Affairs, fenc 

 he P,lot of the Unity out of Brewer's Have,,, and fome Sea-men, with two Chi. 

 lean Lafyues with a Boat to Carelmappa • but being furpriz'd by a violent Storm, 

 ttood in tor Horfcl/land, where he and the Cafiaues Landing, he order'd feven 

 Sea-men to carry the Boat to a fafer Harbor . but being driven from the fliorc 

 by ttrong Winds, it took in fo much Water as fill'd and funk it, fo that all of 

 them were drown'd. Horfe-Ifland being deftitute of Provifions and Lodgings, 

 thofe that were Landed expected nothing but Death, till they found out a fmall 

 Hut, and m the fame fix brave Sheep, and a good quantity of Potatoe Roots, 

 winch ferv'd for Bread : But when this their new-found Store was almoft fpent, 

 they happily were fetch'd off by the Boat belonging to the Ship Amfterdam, and 

 with the whole Fleet came to an Anchor before Baldivia. This City built by ,.,, , „ n 

 the Cajlduns, confifted formerly of five hundred and fifty fair Houfes" and was "^"^"'^ 

 divided into Streets and crofs Ways, with two large Markets, and as many 

 coftly Churches. ' 



The Cbdefes unfufferably opprefs'd, Hew all the Sfanijh Garrifon, and into 



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