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Hugh Gallant > being then in 49 0 South Latitude, and 45 
Leagues from the Land. The Storm continued Three or 
Four Days, and the Hugh Gallant , having fprung a Leak, 
and beaten by the Storm, in Seas far from all Help, was 
ready every Moment to fink to the Bottom: However, fhe 
made a Shift to hold out, by the great Labour and Pains 
of her Crew ; and, on the 1 5th in the Morning, Hie 
came in between the Iile Saint Mary and the Main, where 
die met the Admiral and the Content , which Two Ships 
had, during the Storm, fecured themfelves Two Days at 
the Me of Mo-cha , in 38° South Latitude. At this Place 
Tome of the Company, well armed, went afhore, where 
the Indians met them, and gave them a warm Reception 
with their Bows and Arrows. Thefe Indians were of the 
Diftricl of Aranco , which, being a Country rich as Gold, 
and confequently very tempting to the avaritious Spaniards , 
had been divers times invaded by them, but to no Pur- 
pofe, the Inhabitants having always fo briskly defended 
themfelves, that their Enemies (though better provided 
than they) could never boaft of being their Conquerors ; 
and thefe defperate Men, m Making the EngliJJj for Spani- 
ards, gave them that Entertainment which they always ufed 
to give the other. After the Skirmifh they weighed An- 
chor, and ran under the Weft Side of St. Mary Eland, 
where they had good Riding in Six Fathom Water. The 
Eland itfelf lies in 3 7 0 30' South Latitude, and abounds in 
Hogs, Hens, and divers forts of Fruits : The Indians 
that live here are in fuch abfolute Slavery to the Spaniards , 
that they dare not fo much as kill a Fowl or a Swine for 
themfelves. And though the Spaniards have made them 
Difciples, yet they ufe them more like Dogs, than Men or 
Chriftians. The 1 6th, the Admiral went afhore with Se- 
venty or Eighty Men well armed ; they were met and 
welcomed by Two Indians of Quality, who conduced 
them to a Place, where was a Chapel built by the Spani- 
ards round about which were feveral Storehoufes, fur- 
nifhed with good Wheat and Barley, as clean and fair as 
any in England. They provided themfelves out of the 
Stores with fufficient Quantities of Corn, and laid in, be- 
fides, good Store of Flogs, Hens, Potatoes, dried Dog- 
fifti and Maiz, which is Gniney Wheat : The Admiral in- 
vited the Two principal Indians aboard to an Entertain- 
ment ; and the Wine having opened their Eyes to fee 
clearly, that the Admiral and his Men were no Spaniards , 
(as they hitherto fuppofed them to be) they began to be 
very free with them, and to talk largely of the Gold Mines, 
telling them, that, if they would go acrofs the Country to 
Aranco , they might get as much Gold as they cared for ; 
but the Admiral, not perfectly underftanding the Informa- 
tion, it being given partly by Signs, which were obfcure, 
profecuted not that Adventure, but went on with his 
Voyage. 
9. The 1 8th in the Morning, they left this Place, and 
failed all that Day North North-eaft, about 10 Leagues. 
The 19th, they ran in with the Land at Eaft North-eaft, 
and anchored under an Eland called the Conception. The 
30th, they came into the Bay of Quintero, in 33 0 50' South 
Latitude and the laft Day of that Month, a Company of 
Fifty or Sixty Men, well furnifhed, marched up into the 
Country Seven or Eight Miles : In their March, they faw 
vaft Herds of wild Cattle, with Horfes, Dogs, Hares 
and Conies, Partridge, and other Fowl ; many fine Rivers, 
well flocked with all forts of wild Fowl ; but, having tra- 
velled as far as they could for the Mountains, and without 
any remarkable Adventure, after refrefhing themfelves 
awhile upon the Banks of a pleafant River, they returned 
in good Order to their Ships at Night : Yet was there a 
Party of 200 Horfe abroad that Day to have taken them, 
and that upon the Information of the Spaniards that had 
efcaped from them the Day before •, but thefe valiant Sol- 
diers, though they faw them, durft not make any Attack, 
but kept at a Diftance, and fo let them go off without any 
Difturbance. But the next Day, April 5. they were a lit- 
tle bolder •, for fome of the English being afhore, and very 
hard at work filling Water, the Spaniards (who had 
watched the Opportunity, and were then very eager to 
fight, when they faw their Enemies very bufy) poured 
down Two hundred Florfe from the Plills upon them, 
making a flrift to kill fome lew of them, and take a fmall 
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Number of theM Prifoners : But the glofiotis Victory of 
the Spaniards had a hidden Period fet to it, by the coming 
of Fifteen EngUJlo more, who foon changed the Fortune 
of the Day, not only refcuing their own Company, but 
killing Twenty-four of the Spaniards upon the Spot, and 
driving the reft up the Mountains again. After this, they 
rid in the Road, and watered there, in Spite of the Spa- 
niards, till the 5 th Inftant, when they left this Bay of Quin- 
tero, putting in at a fmall Eland, about a League from the 
Bay, which is full of Penguins and other Fowl : They pro- 
vided themfelves with what Store they wanted, and fo 
failed away North and North by Weft, in order to profe- 
cute their Voyage. 
10. The 15th, they came to Moro Moreno , which lies in 
2 3 0 30' South Latitude, under the Tropic of Capricorn , 
and has an excellent Harbour, which is made fo by an 
Eland, which gives a Ship Entrance at either End of it. 
Here the Admiral went afhore with Thirty Men, and was 
met by the Indians, who brought frelh Water and Wood 
on their Backs: They are a fim pie fort of People, and live 
after a wild and favage manner, and in very great Awe 
and Dread of the Spaniards they brought the Admiral 
and his Company to their Houfes, which lay about Two 
Miles from the Harbour ; thefe were compofed only of a 
few Rafters laid acrofs, fupported by Two or Three Forks 
ftuck in the Ground, with Boughs fpread over them : 
Their Beds were the Skins of wild Beafts, laid upon the 
Floor ; and their Food little elfe but raw Linking Fifh. 
When any of them die, they bury them with all the 
Goods and Arms that belong to them, as Bows and Ar- 
rows, and their very Canoes : Thefe Canoes of theirs are 
very artificially made, being formed of Two Skins like 
Bladders, which are blown full at one End with Quills : 
A Couple of thefe, being made faft together with the Sinews 
of fome wild Beaft, and then put into the Water, fwell 
and puff up at that rate, that they are as firm and tight as 
can be. They make nothing of venturing to Sea in thefe 
Boats, and lading them with great Quan tides of Fifh, Part 
of which goes for Tribute to the Spaniards , and Part is 
kept to ftink for their own eating. 
11. May 3. they came into a Bay, where are Three 
little Towns, Paracca, Chincha , and Pifca , which latter 
Place lies in 13 0 20' South Latitude-, they landed here, 
and took fome Provifions of Wine and Bread, Elens and 
Figs, out of fome ol the Houfes •, but they could not get 
afhore at the beft of the Towns, the Sea ran fo extremely 
high. They made themfelves Mailers of Two rich Ships 
by this time, laden with Sugar, Melaffes, Maiz, Cordo- 
van Skins, Montego de Porco, Packs of Pintadoes, Indian 
Coats, Marmalade Hens, &c. One of them, which had 
the beft Lading, would have yielded 20,000 /. had there 
been Opportunity to have made a Sale : And of all this, 
they took as much as they could conveniently bellow in 
their Ships, burning the reft with the Veffels, and fetting 
all the People in them alhore. The 26th, they came into 
the Road of Paita, which lies in 5 0 4/ South Latitude ; 
the Town itfelf is well built, very neat and clean in all 
Parts of it, and contains about 200 Houfes. The Ad- 
miral landed here with Sixty or Seventy Men, had a Skir- 
milh with the Inhabitants, the Iffue of which was, that the 
Englijh beat them quite out of the Town, and forced them 
up the Hills, from whence they played with their fmall 
Shot upon them ; but would not venture a fair Battle out 
of their mountainous Refuges. When the Englijh had pof- 
feffed themfelves of the Town, they marched after the 
Enemy up the Hills ; and, after fome Difpute, obliging 
them to retire Hill further, till it came to a thorough and 
complete Rout, they feized all their Baggage, which they 
had brought with them out of the Town, and lodged there 
for Securityup and down in the Mountains. Here was plenty 
of all forts of Houfhokhftuff, Storehoufes full of all forts 
of Wares, and 25 lb. Weight of Silver in Pieces of Eight. 
They fet the Town on Fire, and burnt it to the Ground ; 
and alfo to the Value of 5 or 6000/. in Goods, together 
with a Bark lying in the Road ; and fo, leaving the Spa- 
niards the Blaze of their flaming Houfes and Goods, to 
light them down from the Mountains at Night, they went 
hence, and direfted their Courfe to Puna . 
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