On This Captain Swan Wanted Our
People To March Altogether With What Provisions We Could Carry; But They
Refused To Obey Him Till All The Provisions Should Be Carried On Board,
And He Was Forced To Allow Half Of Them To Go On With Fifty-Four Loaded
Horses.
They had not gone a mile from Pecaque when they were attacked by
the Spaniards from an ambush, and were all slain on the spot.
Captain
Swan marched to their relief, but came too late, finding the whole party
slain and stripped naked; yet the Spaniards never once attempted to
engage him, having certainly paid dear for their victory.
Returning on board with the rest of his men, and what provisions had
been carried off, Captain Swan resolved to sail for Cape Lucas in
California, in hopes of trafficking with the Indians there and in the
lake or gulf of California. We accordingly sailed on the 21st with the
wind at N.W. and W.N.W. and anchored at the islands of Santa Maria, in
eight fathoms on clean sand. There are three islands, usually called the
Three Marias,[190] stretching fourteen leagues from S.E. to N.W. of
moderate height, stony, barren, and uninhabited, in lat 21 deg. 30' N.
[long. 106 deg. 15' W.] from which Cape St Lucas in California is forty
leagues W.N.W. and Cape Corientes twenty leagues E.S.E. We anchored off
the east end of the middle island, which we called Prince George's
island.
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