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Damper , with the Artillery, and, for a Referve, upon Oc- 
■cafion, twenty-two Men: In all, 238. Captain Edward 
Cooke to command the Duchefs , with Forty-two Men ; 
Captain Robert Fry , the Duke , with forty Men ; Total, 
320 Men : The Blacks , Indians , and Prifoners, were about 
266 more. On the 13th, we haled in for Cape Blanco , 
that is, /THA ; and at Noon it bore Eaft South-eaft, 
diftant ten Leagues : A Committee being held, it was 
agreed, for the Encouragement of Officers and Men, that 
all Bedding and Cloaths, Gold Rings, Buttons and Buckles, 
Liquors and Provifions, for their own Expence and Ufe, 
with all Sorts of Arms, except great Guns for . Ships, 
fliould be allowed as Plunder, to be equally divided to 
every Man aboard, or affiore, according to his whole 
Shares ; that all wrought Gold or Silver, Crucifixes, 
Watches, found about the Prifoners, or wearing Apparel 
of any Kind, fihould alfo be Plunder, except Money, 
Womens Ear-rings, loofe Diamonds, Pearls, and Precious 
Stones ■, and, in cafe any thing was not fufficiently ex- 
plained in this Order, a Committee fliould, after the Ex- 
pedition, meet again, upon Application made to them ; 
and determine what further ought to be reputed Plunder, 
Without Fraud to the Owners, or Prejudice to the Officers 
and Men : That no Perfons ffiould mifinterpret this Al- 
lowance, fo as to fecure or conceal either wrought or un- 
wrought Gold or Silver, Pearls, Jewels, Diamonds, or 
Precious Stones, not found about Prifoners, or their 
wearing Apparel, which fliould be looked upon as a high 
Mifdemeanour, and feverely punifned : That none fliould 
keep any Plunder, but deliver it to his Officer publicly, 
and carry it to the Place appointed to depofit it : That in 
cafe any Town, Fort, or Ship, were taken by Storm, the 
Encouragement agreed on at the Ifland of St. Vincent 
mentioned, fliould be allowed to each Man, over-and-above 
the Gratuity promifed by the Owners to thole that fignalized 
themfelves : But if any Party fliould be engaged with an- 
other of the Enemy, and defeat them, then all the Pri- 
foners, and the Arms and Moveables about them, fliould 
be divided among them only who were in Adtion : All the 
Plunder taken alhore, to be taken aboard by Perfons ap- 
pointed for that Purpofe, and entered in public Books, for 
the Satisfaction of all concerned. Thofe who fliould commit 
any Diforder afliore, difobey Command, quit their Poll, 
difcourage the Men, behave themfelves cowardly in any 
Action, burn or deftroy any thing without Orders, or de- 
bauch Prifoners, to lofe all their Shares of the Plunder, and 
be feverely punifhed otherwife. On the 1 5th in the Morn- 
ing, we faw a Sail near the Shore; and, having little Wind, 
the Duke’s Boat, commanded by Capt. Fry , and the Duchefs’ s, 
by Capt. Cooke , rowed directly for her, going off in fuch 
Hafte, that neither of us had the Swivel Guns we ufed to carry 
in the Boats, nor our full Complement of Men, only ten 
Mufquets, four Piftols, and not much Powder and Shot, 
nor any Water ; and rowed very hard to come with the 
Ship for the Space of fix Leagues : The Duke ’ s Boat coming 
firft near her, flie put out Spanijh Colours, fired a Gun at 
them, and hoifted a Spanijh Flag at the Main-top-maft- 
head : The Duke’s Boat then lay-by for us to come up •, we 
faw die was French built, and, by the Account the Prifoners 
jhad given us before, concluded it muff be the Ship we 
bad been fo long cruifing for, which was to carry the 
Bifhop. Our Ships being almoft out of Sight, and the 
Spaniards fo near the Coaft, and making the belt of her 
Way to run afhore in a fandy Bay, we refolved to lay her 
aboard in each Bow, and accordingly made the belt of our 
Way, I being then on her Weather Quarter, and Captain 
Fry on her Lee : We defigned to have told them we were 
Friends, till got out of the Way of their Stern-chace •, but 
the Duke ’ s Men, thinking the Spaniards had been going to 
give us a Volley, poured in their Shot among them, then 
laid in our Oars, and fell to it : The Difpute was hot for a 
long time, we keeping a conftant Fire, and the Enemy 
anfwering ; who killed two of Captain Frys Men, and 
wounded one of his, and two of mine. One of the dead 
Men was Captain John Rogers , our fecond Lieutenant, and 
Brother to Captain Rogers , who behaved himfelf very well 
during the Addon. The Duke’s Boat, finding the Enter- 
prize too difficult, bore away ; and fome time after we did 
the like. Captain Fry^ having put fome Of his Men 
aboard us, given us fome Powder and Shot, and taken in 
our wounded Men, flood away for the Ships, whilffi I 
made again to the Ship, refolving to keep her from the 
Shore, and, rather than fail, to clap her aboard-; the Spa - 
niards , perceiving what we defigned, edged off to Sea, 
and we after them. Our Ships came up apace, and we 
kept clofe to the Spaniard , fometimes firing at him. The 
Duchefs , being come up, fired a Shot or two at him ; and 
then he flruck, and we clapt him aboard. The Men 
begged for good Quarter, and we promifed them all Ci- 
vility imaginable. This Ship came from Panama , and 
was bound for Lima , to be fitted out for a Man of War, 
the Captain having his Commiflion accordingly. Them 
were feventy Blacks, and many Paffengers, with a con- 
fiderable Quantity of Pearls aboard ; the Lading, Bale- 
goods, and fomething belonging to the Biftiop ; but they 
had fet him on Shore, with feveral Paffengers, where they 
touched lafl. The Veffel was about 270 Ton Burden, 
commanded by Don Jofeph Arizabala , who told us, the 
Bifhop had been landed at Point St. Helena , and gone by 
Land to Guiaquil. We found feveral Guns in the Flold, 
for the Ship would carry twenty-four, but had only fix 
mounted. Many of the Paffengers were confiderable Mer- 
chants at Lima , and the brifkefl Spaniards I ever faw. 
When the French had this Veffel, flie was called la Lune 
d’Or , the Golden Moon. Captain Cooke (whofe Account 
we follow) remained aboard her, fending the Captain and 
Prifoners to our Ships. 
18. On the 2 ifl in the Morning, the Beginning was 
fent a-head towards Point Arena , on the Ifland of Puna, 
for fear of any Danger ; but fhe found there only an empty 
Veffel riding clofe under the Point : She proved to be a 
new Spanifh Bark, that had been fent to load Salt ; but the 
Men, having Sight of us, thought proper to abandon her : 
All Apprehenfions were now totally removed, and, at five 
in the Afternoon, the Tranfports rowed for the Town of 
Guiaquil, and at eleven faw a Light in the Town ; where- 
upon we rowed as eafy as could be, for fear of Difcovery, 
till within a Mile of it ; then heard a Centinel call to an- 
other, talk fome time, and bid him bring Fire. Perceiv- 
ing we were difcovered, we rowed over to the Other Side'^ 
againfl: the Town, faw a Fire made where the Centinels 
talked, and, foon after, many Lights all over the Town j 
and, at the Water-fide, heard them ring the Alarm-bell, 
fire feveral Volleys, and light a Fire on the Hill where the 
Beacon was kept, to give the Town Notice, that we were 
come up the River. Hereupon the Boats came to a 
Grappling, and fuch an hot Difpute arofe among fome of our 
chief Officers, that they were heard afhore ; but the Spa- 
niards, not underftanding what theyfaid, fetched an Englijh- 
man , and conduced him along the Shore, to interpret 
what they heard. However, before he came, the Difpute 
was over* This Account we had from that very Englifh- 
man , who afterwards came over to us, and proceeded in the 
Voyage. A Council was held in the Stern of one of the 
Boats, to refolve, whether we fliould land immediately, of 
flay till Day- break ; and the Officers differing in their 
Opinions, it was agreed, finCe we did not know the 
Ground, and the Barks Were hot come up, which had near 
half the Men and the Artillery, to flay till Day-light, when 
it was hoped the Barks would join ; and fell a little Way 
down the River to meet them, hearing feveral Muiquet- 
fhots in our Way, which, at firll, we thought might be 
from the Spaniards along the Shore. Oil the 2 2d, at 
Break of Day, we faw one of our Barks at Anchor clofe 
under the Shore, within a Mile of the Town, and at Flood, 
the other coming up the River ; then rowed back to the 
Bark which had fired thofe Mufquets at fome Fifhermeri 
paffing by, whom we took. When all our Forces were 
joined, we held a Council in the Pinnace, proceeded up 
the River, and fent a Flag of Truce with the Captain of 
the French built Ship, the Governor of Puna , and another 
Prifoner ; then towed up the Barks a-breaft againfl: the 
Town, and came to an Anchor. When the Captain of 
the French built Ship came to the Corregidor, or Mayor 
of the Town, he alked our Number, which the Captain 
magnified. The Corregidor anfwered. They were Boys, 
and not Men : And the Captain replied, He would find 
they were Men ; for they had fought him bravely in their 
