M The VOYAGES of . Book I. 
12. May 25. they arrived at the 111 e Puna, which lies in of the former being worth Forty, and of the latter Ten 
South Latitude •, in the Harbour whereof they found a Crowns, Thefe Cacaos ferve amongft them both rV Meat 
riarge Ship of 250 Ton, riding at Anchor with all her Fur- and Money. They are like Almonds, though not aim' 
niture, which they funk, and fo went afhore. The Lord gether fo pleafant •, they afford both Food and Drink and 
of this ffle is called the Cafique of Tuna ; he was an Indian pafs in Trade inftead of ready Money, 150 of them being 
Lorn, but, having married a Spanijh Woman, and being in Value equal to a Rial of Plate ? 
refolved to be of his Wife’s Religion, he made his Subjects 14. The 28th, they fet Sail from Copalita , the Sea running 
follow his Example. He had a fumptuous and well-con- fo high there, that they could not fill Water ; and reached 
trived Palace near the Sea-fide, with curious Gardens ad- Agatulco the fame Night. The next Day* the Admiral 
joining to it, and fair Profpefts, both to the Water, and went afhore, with Thirty Men, marching Two Miles 
mp into the Country, He kept all the Indians of the Eland into the Woods, where they took a Meftizo belonmn^ to 
in continual Drudgery, their Work being to make Cables, the Cuflom-houfe of that Town*, and a confiderabkParcel 
fuch Plenty of which are made by thofe labouring Indians , of Stuffs with him, and carried both the Matter and the 
-that the South Sea is moftly furnifhed from hence. The Goods away to their Ships. Augufi 24. the Admiral and 
Eland is near as big as the Ijle of Wight , and has a great Thirty Men went in the Pinnace to the Haven Puerto de 
: Share of the Bleffings of Nature ; for, though it does not Natividad , which lies 19 0 North Latitude, where Sancius 
.yield Mines of Gold and Silver, yet it affords thofe Things had informed them would be a Prize ; but, before they 
thatare far more neceffary for humanLife: There is excel- came thither, fhe was gone Twelve Leagues farther to fifo 
lent Paflure-Iand here, and Variety of ufeful Animals to be for Pearls. However, here they took a ^Mulatto, that was 
maintained by fo as Horfes, Oxen, Sheep, Goats, that are fent to give Notice of the Englijh all along the* Coaft of 
very tame, and yield abundance of Milk, befrdes very good Nueva Gallicia, together with all his Letters j and burnt 
Fowl, Pigeons, Turkeys, and Ducks, of a large Size, the Town, and Two Ships of 200 Ton that were then 
The Cafique had Orchards that yield moft Sorts of ufeful building there, and lb returned to their Ships. The 26th 
Fruits, as Oranges, Lemons, Figs, Pomgranates, Pom- they came into the Bay of St. Iago , where they watered at 
pions, Melons, Cucumbers, Radifhes, &c. with divers a good River, that yielded them great Store of Fifh, and 
Sorts of odoriferous Plants, as Rofemary, Thyme, &c. one fome Quantity of Pearls: This Bay is in 19 0 18' North 
•of them fet round with Trees that bear the Bombafm Latitude. September 2. they left St. Iago , and the 3d Day 
Cotton, the Tops of which grow full of Pods, out of which came into the Bay of Malacca , lying a League to the 
the Cotton itfelf rifes. In the Cotton lies a Seed, of the Weftward of Port Natividad , and a very good Place for 
• Bignefs of a Pea, and in every Pod there are Seven or Ships to ride in. The fame Day the Admiral, with about 
Eight of thefe Seeds, which, if the Cotton be not ga- Thirty Men, went afhore to an Indian Town called Aca- 
thered when ’tis ripe, take root, and produce a new tlan, which lies Two Leagues from the Road. It con- 
Plant. May 29. the Admiral went to a little Illand fitted of Twenty or Thirty Houfes, and a Church, which 
clofe by Puna, into which the Cafique had conveyed all they demolifhed, and went aboard again that Night. The 
the valuable Furniture of his Palace, and other Moveables, 4th, they left the Bay of Malacca , and failed along the 
neceffary both for Houfe and Ship. Thefe Stores being all Coaft. The 8th, they came to the Road of Chacalla 
foifcovered, they took or plunder’d what they thought fit which is Eighteen Leagues from the Cape De los Cor - 
out of them, and conveyed it into their Ships. They rientes, having met with fair Winds, and fine Weather, 
burnt the Church alfo, which flood hard by the Cafique * s 15. The 9th in the Morning, the Admiral fent out 
Palace, and brought away the Five Bells that were in it. Forty Men, (with Sancius for a Guide) who, marching 
June 2. 100 Spaniards affaulted them, killing and taking Two Leagues through the Woods, and defart Places 
Prifoners Twelve of the Englijh , and lofing Forty-fix of lighted of Two or Three Families, fome of which were 
their own, in that Encounter. The fame Day, going Indians , others Spaniards , and one Portuguefe, all which 
•afhore again, with Seventy Men, they met with a Party of they brought to their Ships. The Admiral made the 
100 Spaniards , armed with Mufkets, and 200 Indians , Women fetch Plantanes, Lemons, Oranges, and other 
with Bows and Arrows •, and, having intirely put them to Fruits ; and, for a Reward, fet all their Husbands free 
Flight, they made Havock of their Fields and Orchards, again, except one Scmbrano , a Spanijh Carpenter, and 
and burnt Four great Ships upon the Stocks, as alfo the Diego , the Portuguefe , whom he retained. The 12th 
Town itfelf, which they left a mere Heap of Rubbifh. they arrived at the Ifland St. Andrew, a very woody Place, 
This Town had no lefs than 300 Houfes in it ; befides and yielding vaft Store of Fowl and Seals, and a fort of 
which, there were Two or Three Towns in Puna, that Serpents, (or Lizards rather) called Iguanas, which have 
contained 200 Houfes each 1 ; fo that it was the very belt Four Feet, and a fharp long Tail, but are very o- 0 od 
fettled Eland on all this Coaft. Meat. Leaving St. Andrew's Eland, they came the 24th 
13. June 5. they weigh’d out of the Road of Puna , into the Road of Maffatlan, which lies under the Tropic 
and failed to Rio Dolce, where they watered ; and, the of Cancer. This River is large within, but much barred. 
1 2th, paffed the Equinoctial, continuing a Northerly Courfe There is great Store of frefh Fifh in that Bay, and good 
all the reft of the Month. July 1. they had Sight of Fruits up in the Country. The 27th, they departed from 
Nueva Efpanna, being Four Leagues diftant from the Maffatlan, and came to an Eland, which is a League 
Land, and in io° North Latitude. The 9th Inftant they to the Northward of Maffatlan , where they heeled their 
took a new Ship of 120 Ton, in which was on t Michael Ships, and new-built their Pinnace, and found a little 
Sancius, a Provencal, and Native of Marfeilles , a very Eland a Quarter of a League from it, on which are Seals, 
fkilful Coafter in the South Seas, whom the Admiral took They found upon this Eland where they heeled their Pin- 
for his Pilot ; and he gave them the firft Hint of the great nace, frefh Water, by digging Two or Three Feet deep 
Ship Anna Maria, which they took afterwards coming from in the Sand, where no Water, or Sign of Water, was 
the Philippine Elands •, they took all the Men, the Sails, before to be perceived ; otherwife they mull have gone 
the Ropes, £5? c. out of this Ship of Sancius’ s y and then fet back Twenty or Thirty Leagues to water. But God 
her on Fire. The 10th they took a Bark that Was going to raifed one Flores , a Spaniard , who was a Prifoner with 
‘give the Alarm all along the Coaft of the Arrival of the them, to make a Motion to dig in the Sands : Their Ge- 
Englijh , but all the Men were gone out of her. The 26th neral, having had Experience once before of the like, com- 
they came to an Anchor in the River Copalita j and the manded to put this Motion in Practice *, and, in digging 
fame Night, with Thirty Men in the Pinnace, rowed to Three Feet deep, they found very good and frefh Water : 
Agatulco, Two Leagues from the River ; and in 15 0 40' So they watered their Ships, and might have filled 1000 
North Latitude, they made a Defcent upon them, and Tons more, if they would. In this Hand they flay’d till 
burnt both the Town and Cuflom-houfe, which was a large the 9th of Oliober, and then failed for Cape St. Lucar, 
and fair Building, Here were laid up 600 Bags of Anife, which is on the Weft Side of the Point of California , with 
(for the Dying of Cloth) and 400 of Cacaos, every Bag which they fell in on the 14th of the fame Month, obferv- 
x It had been more advifeable to have treated thefe People well. Thefe wanton A 61 s of Cruelty have been the Ruin of all our Expeditions into 
the South Seas. — — — «■ - . * a That is, when made into Chocolate* It is right to leave fuch Defcriptions, becaufe they are Proofs of a "Writer’s Inqui- 
Jitivenefs and Sincerity. 
