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157S. the Port of Arica, which is in eighteenThree Ships Degrees, and thirty. Minutes South La-feven "anT ^tude; they found there three Ships,fifty iVedges with not a Man on Board them, inof Silver , which were, besides other Merchan-a Goodf her ^ IZ ? S ’ ^ e Y en 2ud fifty Wedges of Silver,each weighing twenty Pound. TheTown> consisting of twenty Houses on-ly, tho’ close by, they did not thinkfit to venture upon; But putting off toSea again, they met with a little Barkladen with Linnen-Cloth, Part of whichthey took out, and then let her go.

On the thirteenth (or, as some Ac-counts have it, the fifteenth) of February>they arrived at Callao, the Port of Lima,the Capital of Peru , which lies in elevenDegrees and fifty Minutes, of South Lati-’Tiuelve rich tude, where they found twelve Ships at^Shipsseiz°d Anchor. The Author of Drake Revi-at Lima. ved fays thirty Ships, among which' were seventeen, the chief of the South -Sea. In these Ships they found greatQuantities of Silk and .Linnen, with aChest full of coined Many; And theAuthor I have just mentioned adds fif-teen Hundred Bars of Silver. But notso much as a Boy on Board any one ofthem; So great was the Security onthose Coasts, where, by Reason of theirgreat Remoteness from Europe, theyfeared neitherPirates, nor other Enemies;Nor, indeed, had ever any one but Ma-gellan, before Drake, navigated tholeSeas, except the Spaniards themselves,who built there all the Ships they madeUse of in those Parts.

Having cut the Cables of all theseShips, and set them. adrift, they, withall the Sail they could make, gave Chaceto the Cacofogo, a very rich Ship, whichthey understood was failed from thence,on the second of February, for Panama.

A Spanish By the Way they met with a Brigantine,Brigantin'e out of which they took eighty Pound

Drake ^with ^ ^Zht of Gold, a Crucifix of the sameeighty Pound Metal, some Emeralds of a Finger’ssv eight of .Length, and seme Cordage. In fewGold, ando- j) a y S after they came up with th o'Caca-jogo, near Cape S. Francis, in one De-gree of North-Latitude, about oneHundred and fifty Leagues from Pana-ma.

Drake had promised, that he whofirst got Sight of her should have hisGold Chain for a Reward. , John Drakebeing in the Top, was the first who es-

(g) This Joke is related in Harris’s Collec-tion, in Hackluyt and Purchas , as from the Pi-lot’s Boy, which seems most probable. The Ma-

ther Riches.

pied her, about three in the Afternoon, j 0 -.

and about six they came up with her.

They had the good Fortune to bring oneof her Masts by the Board, and thenpresently boarding her made themselves ^ fMaster of her. In this Ship, besides agreat Treasure of Pearls and preciousStones, they took eighty Pound Weightof Gold, thirteen Chests full of Silvercoined, and so great a Quantity of otherSilver, as would almost serve to ballasta Ship ; Harris, Purchas, Hackluyt and• some others,mention the exaff Quantity,viz. six and twenty Tun Weight: TheAuthor of the Coiumna Rojlrata, Calls itunrefined Silver, which is most proba-ble. Having removed all this into theirown Ship, the total Amount of whichwas calculated to be three Hundred andSixty Thousand Pieces of eight, or nearninety Thousand Pounds, they let theCacofogo go. The Master of her, at part-ing, is reported to have thus merrily bid*den them Farewell. " We resign (said" he) the Name of our Ship to yours,

" Let that, for the future, be called" the Cacofogo, that is (if I may be al-" lowed the Expression) the S—tefre,

" and ours the Cacoplata , that is, thete S—teplate. (g)

At parting from the Cacofogo, theycontinued their Course to the West, andin their Way, about the Middle ofMarch, met with a Ship laden with ^ gpsfLinnen-Cloth, China-dfhes, and Silk 3 shipP^ljof that Country. Out of this Ship, the ed, aid 1Admiral took from the Owner, a Spanish S°-Gentleman, who was on Board, a Fal-con, wrought in Maffy-gold, with alarge Emerald set in the Breast of it, andas much of the Merchandizes as hethought fit, and then, seizing the Pilot,for his own Service, turned her going.

Captain Drake, bending his Coursenow to the Northward, cruised along ^the Coast of Mexico, and, on the fif- Ag^ tuteen th of April, landing at Ajguatulco,s aC ^ ein fifteen Degrees and forty Minutes,sacked that Town. They found a Courtof Justice sitting in the Town-hall, anda Judge just going to pronounce Sentence c i

against some poor Negroes, who were J ^fpaccused of a Plot to fire the Town : Butthe Admiral thought fit to make a smallAlteration in the Sentence, and to order Drak ethejudge,Court andCriminals, to be con-veyed Prisoners to his Ship; and the

Sentence

ster can hardly bea jesting Humour.

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