The Famous Voyage Of Sir Francis Drake Into The South Sea, And Therehence About The Whole Globe Of The Earth, Begun In The Year Of Our Lord 1577 Narrative By Francis Pretty
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When Our General Had Done What He Would With This
Cacafuego, He Cast Her Off, And We Went On Our
Course still towards
the west; and not long after met with a ship laden with linen cloth
and fine China
Dishes of white earth, and great store of China silks,
of all which things we took as we listed. The owner himself of this
ship was in her, who was a Spanish gentleman, from whom our General
took a falcon of gold, with a great emerald in the breast thereof; and
the pilot of the ship he took also with him, and so cast the ship off.
This pilot brought us to the haven of Guatulco, the town whereof, as
he told us, had but 17 Spaniards in it. As soon as we were entered
this haven, we landed, and went presently to the town and to the town-
house; where we found a judge sitting in judgment, being associated
with three other officers, upon three negroes that had conspired the
burning of the town. Both which judges and prisoners we took, and
brought them a-shipboard, and caused the chief judge to write his
letter to the town to command all the townsmen to avoid, that we might
safely water there. Which being done, and they departed, we ransacked
the town; and in one house we found a pot, of the quantity of a
bushel, full of reals of plate, which we brought to our ship. And here
one Thomas Moon, one of our company, took a Spanish gentleman as he
was flying out of the town; and, searching him, he found a chain of
gold about him, and other jewels, which he took, and so let him go.
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