Seeing Our Design, The Enemy Edged Off
To Sea, And We After Them.
Our ships came up apace, while we kept close
to the Spaniard, sometimes firing at him.
At length the Duchess got up
and fired a shot or two, on which she struck, and we immediately
boarded. The men begged for quarter, and we promised them all civility.
This ship was of 270 tons, commanded by Don Joseph Arizabella, and had
come from Panama bound for Lima, where she was to have been fitted out
as a man of war, the captain having his commission on board for that
purpose. She had seventy negroes on board, with many passengers. The
loading was bale goods, with some things belonging to the bishop, and a
considerable quantity of pearls; but the bishop had been landed at Point
St Helena, whence he was to go by land to Guayaquil. Many of the
passengers were considerable merchants at Lima, and the briskest
Spaniards I ever saw. After the capture of this ship, Captain Cooke
remained on board, sending her captain and the rest of the prisoners to
the Duke and Duchess.
[Footnote 222: This particular action is related by Harris in the words
of Captain Cooke, who commanded the boat from the Duchess. - E.]
We now proceeded on our intended expedition against Guayaquil, sending
the Beginning ahead to Punta arena, or Sandy Point, on the island of
Puna, to see if there was any force to oppose us; but she only found a
Spanish bark, quite empty, riding close under the point.
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