By This Time; They Had Made Two
Valuable Prizes, Laden With Sugar, Melasses, Maiz, Cordovan Leather,
Montego De Porco, Packs Of Painted Calicoes, Indian Coats, Marmalade,
Hens, And Other Articles, Which Would Have Yielded L20,000, If There Had
Been Any Opportunity For Selling Their Cargoes.
That not being the case,
they took out as much as could be conveniently stowed in their own
ships, burning their two prizes with the rest of their contents.
[Footnote 51: Pisco, the principal of these towns, is in lat. 16 deg. 43'
S.]
The 26th May, they came into the road Payta, in lat. 5 deg. 4' S. the town
being very neat and clean, and containing about 200 houses. Landing here
with sixty or seventy men, Candish had a skirmish with the inhabitants,
whom he beat out of the town, forcing them to take refuge in the hills,
whence they continued to fire at the English, but would not venture a
fair battle on the plain ground. Having possessed themselves of the
town, the English marched after the enemy on the hill, and put them
completely to the rout, seizing all their baggage, which they brought
back with them to the town. They here found all sort of household stuff,
together with warehouses well filled with various kinds of goods, and
twenty-five pound weight of silver in pieces of eight. After taking away
what plunder they found convenient, they set fire to the town, which was
burnt to the ground, and destroyed likewise a bark at anchor in the
roads; after which they set sail for Puna.
Enter page number
PreviousNext
Page 118 of 825
Words from 31881 to 32146
of 224764
