At This Time The Shot From My
Musket, Being A Bar-Shot, Happened To Strike The Gunner Of The Fort
Dead, While He Was Levelling One Of His Great Guns; And Thus We Got Off
From Them Without Loss Or Wound On Our Part.
Having thus taken five[337]
sail in all, we did as we had done with the ship with the
Fish, we
turned them off without hurting them, save that we took from one of them
her mainmast for our admiral, and sent her away with all our Spanish and
Portuguese prisoners, except Pedro Sarmiento, three other principal
persons, and two negroes, leaving them within sight of land, with bread
and water sufficient to serve them ten days.
[Footnote 337: Four only are mentioned in the text; and it appears that
they only sent away at this time the first taken ship, in which they had
captured Sarmiento. - E.]
We now bent our course for England, taking our departure from off the
western islands in about the latitude of 41 deg. N. and soon afterwards one
of our men descried a sail from the foretop, then ten sail, and then
fifteen sail. It was now concluded to send off our two prizes, by
manning of which we did not leave above 60 men in our two pinnaces. When
we had dispatched them, we made sail towards the fleet we had
discovered, which we found to consist of 24 sail in all; two of them
being great caraks, one of 1200 and the other of 1000 tons, and 10
galeons, all the rest being small ships and caravels, laden with
treasure, spices, and sugars.
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