242 LOSS OF A JAMAICA SLOOP. 
my comrades had been surprised and carried off by the sa- 
vages, and we despaired of ever seeing them again. 
Four days afterward, the governor being at dinnex with me 
and the pastor, a horseman, in full speed, arrived at the gate, 
who with the utmost terror, stated that he had seen a power- 
ful army of English marching between the wood and the sea. 
He was immediately conducted into the house, and assured 
us of the same thing. His terror convinced us rather than his 
words ; every one rose, and the alarm-bell was rung. Univer- 
sal consternation ensued, for the people of the town were too 
badly armed, and still worse disciplined, to make a vigorous 
resistance. The governor mounted his horse, and notwith- 
standing my weakness, I accompanied him to assist in draw- 
ing out his people. The noise, the tumult, and the disorder 
increased every moment. People came from all quarters an- 
nouncing the approach of the enemy. 
Don Juan and I went out of the town to reconnoitre, and 
scarcely had we proceeded fifty paces, when we saw approach- 
ing, in a very tattered condition, the little troop, which alone 
composed the formidable army we had been threatened with* 
1 laughed at this panic-terror when I had discovered the 
cause, and T\^as extremely rejoiced to see that my companions 
in misfortune had escaped the danger I had dreaded. I ques- 
tioned them concerning their adventures. They informed me, 
that having waited three days beyond the time fixed, they had 
set off according to my advice ; that they had followed me 
along the coast, and had subsisted nearly in the same manner 
as I had done. 
I remained almost a month at Esparza, which I left under 
the conduct of good guides, after receiving every possible re- 
lief from the charitable Don Domingo and Don Juan de Sa- 
linas, together with letters of recommendation from the latter 
to the Viceroy of New Spain, to whom he was related. 
LOSS OF A JAMAICA SLOOP, 
Commanded hy Captain Nathaniel Uring, in 1711. 
Captain Nathaniel Uring having been appoin»ted to the 
command of a sloop to trade to the Leeward Islands, in the 
beginning of November, 1711, the events which attended the 
