^hap IX. during the Reign

*578. turn. Notwithstanding this Shew of

Friendship, the next Day, when twoMen were set on Shoar, with Barrels tofill Water, these very Savages laid vio-lent Hands on them, and, as it was sup-posed, slew them, taking them perhapsfor Spaniards, to whom they were usedto shdw no Mercy. Their Design was,without Doubt, upon the whole Boat’sCrew, being nine in Number ; Forthey followed them with such a Flightof Arrows, that not a Man escaped be-ing wounded, in several Parts of theBody. The Captain receiv’d a dange-rous Wound under his Right Eye, andanother in his Head: And, as an Aditi-on to the Misfortune, they had then noSurgeon.

Drake seing this, stay’d no longer;^ of But, weighing Anchor, set Sail towardslli - the Coast of Chili, where he got Intel-ligence from an Indian Fisherman, in aCanoe, who took them for Spaniards,that a large Spanijh Ship lay laded atVilla ParaiJ'o, or Valparizo, being comefrom the Kingdom of Peru. Theytook him with them for their Pilot,and sailed thither in Search of it. TheSpaniards, who were no more than eight,and three Negroes, on Board, believ-ing the Englijh, who were coming to-wards them, to be their own Country-men, beat a Drum, and drinking fullCups of Wine of Chili to them, re-ceived them with all Testimonies off 'cCp es a J°Y* The Englijh, clapping them onr ’ Ze - Board, immediately thrust them allunder the Hatches excepting one Spani-ard, who leap’d over Board, and swamon Shoar, to bring Tidings to the Townof St. J ago. This done, they possessed^ themselves of the Ship; and plundered

t a . a Neighbouring Town, consisting only■^ake. of nine Habitations (But not as Efack-luyt, Purchas, and others from them,fay, the Town of St. J ago, that beingseveral Leagues up the Country, andnever seen by Drake ) together with theChappel, the Spoil of which latter,Was given to Fletcher, the Chaplain ofDrake's Ship. The Plunder of theTownconsisted only of Chili Wine, andCedar-

of §jpeen Elizabeth. 17 5

Wood, and that of the Chappel, of a 1579*Silver Chalice, two Cruets, and an Al-tar-Cloth. It was the 6th or yth of De-cember, that they met with this richPrize, which more than recompencedall their Losses, ^ excepting that of theirCompanions. The Spaniards they puton Shoar, but carried away the Masterwho was aGmva;?,with the Ship,where-in was four hundred Pound Weight ofBaldivian, or the purest of Gold, socalled of the Place : (d) And a Cross ofthe same Metal, set with Emeralds.

In their Way to Lima , they put in, An Instance

on the nineteenth of December', at Co- °f{ he s P ani *

- 7 - j . ards l, outage,

quimbo, in nine and twenty Degrees,

and thirty Minutes, where" setting a-shoar fourteen Men, the Spaniards hadthe Courage to attack them, with anArmy of Three Hundred Horse, andtwo Hundred Foot, and having valiant-ly slain One Man in Fight, prudentlysuffered the other thirteen to go in Safe-ty back to their Ship, lest the Tide ofVictory should turn against them.

The next Day, they fell in with a.more convenient Harbour, in near eightand twenty Degrees, where they staidabove a Month, to trim their Ships,that is, their own, and the SpaniJlj Shipthey had taken, and to frame aPinnace.

Towards the latter End of January,they landed at a Port called Larapaxa,where finding a Spaniard asleep, uponthe Shoar, with thirty Bars of Silver Bars"/SiI-lying by him, to the Value of four Hun- ver takendred Thousand Duckets, (e) they caxxl-from asteepyed them off, leaving the Spaniard to P amartake out his Nap.

Not far from hence, going ashoar for E i<>-ht Hun-Water, they met a Spaniard and an In- dred, Pomd-dian, driving eight Peruvian Sheep, as WlV S ^ j0 °f"big as Asses, laden with fine Silvereach Sheep having two Leather-Bagscontaining each Bag, fifty PoundsWeight, on his Back- They eased thepoor Beasts of their Burdens, which, a-mounting together to eight HundredPound Weight of Silver, they lodged intheir Ship, and suffered their Driversto go on in Peace. (f) Then entring2 Y the

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{d) Harris’s Collection, Hackhyt andPurchas, h<yt, Purchas and some .others, whose Relation

fck/ 00 - wake the Booty to have been but five and twenty seems the most credible, all fay. thirteenBars,which

pS.jAp Thousand Pezzoes, amounting to something more came to about four Thousand Spanijh Ducats.

.Ot Bib!, than seven and thirty Thousand Spanish Ducats: (s) These Sheep (lays the Author of Drake Drake Re-

Rut a Latin Manuscript, in the Cottonian Library, Revived) have Necks like Camels; But their vived-written in the own Hand-writing of Isaac Casau- Heads perfectly resemble thole of Sheep. Their

hon, says four Hundred Pounds of pure Gold, Wool is exceeding fine, and their Flesh very good

C 4 and a Quantity of Wine of Chili. Meat. There are some of them, which are as big

frn. M Here our Historians differ : The above as middling Cows, and exceed them in Strength.

H Account is Camlet !s ; Mr. Secretary Burchett a- Three large and tall Men, and a Boy (Cays the ■

frbff. gross in the Value, but reduces the Number of fame Author) we set upon the Back of one of

ll ' Bars to thirteen, which makes the Relation yet them, which seemed to give the Creature no

more improbable: But Harris & Collection, Hack- M nner of Uneasiness.