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Two moreSpsuifh Ves-sels taken.

Aguatulco

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Puerto deNatividadburnt , withtwo targeShips on theStocks.

A Fight be-tween theAdmiralsand theGreat St.Ann.

Eliz. Naval Expeditions, &c. of the English, Book H*

The first of July> they got Sight ofNueva Efpanna, at four Leagues Dis-tance. The ninth, they took a newShip, of one Hundred and twenty Tuns,in which was one Michael Sancius, askilful Coaster in the South-Sea, whomthey took, with all the Men,Sails,Ropes,CSV. and then set Fire to the Ship ; and,on the tenth, they took another Bark.The fix and twentieth they came to anAnchor, in theRiver of Copalita, in six-teen Degrees of North Latitude, andthe fame Night rowed with thirty Men,in the Pinnace, to Aguatulco, in fifteenDegrees and forty Minutes, North La-titude, where they made aDescent, andburnt the Town and the Custom-house,a fair Building; in which, among otherGoods, were fix Hundred Bags of Ani-le, valued at forty Crowns a Bag, andfour Hundred Bags of Cocoa, valued atten Crowns each.

The eight and twentieth they failedfrom the River of Copalita, and reachedAguatulco,the next Night. The next Day,the Admiral went ashoar, with thirtyMen, and in the Wood met a Man be-longing to the Custom-house of thatTown, with a considerable Parcel ofStuffs, and carried both the Master andhis Goods on Board.

The four and twentieth of August,the Admiral went, with thirty of hisMen, in the Pinnace, to Puerto de Na-tividad, wher e Sancius had informed himhe would meet with a Prize j But theycame too late. However they burnt theTown, and two Ships, of two HundredTuns each, on the Stocks.

The six and twentieth, they cameinto the Bay of St. J ago, where theydragg’d for Pearls, and took a prettylarge Quantity. The Admiral continu-ed to ravage and burn several Places,’till the fourth of November, while theDesire and Content went beating up anddown, upon the Head-land of California.The fame Day, in the Morning, oneof the Company of the Admirals Shipspied a Sail from the Top-mast, whichwas joyful News. The Admiral gaveimmediate Order for the Chafe, andmade all necessary Preparations for anEngagement. lu about three Hours,they got up with her, and found her tobe the St. Ann , the Admiral of all theSouth-Sea, of the Burden of seven Hun-dred Tuns, bound from the Philippines,to Acapulco, in New Spain. They im-mediately saluted her with a Broad-side,and a Volley of small Shot. She made

a stout Resistance for a Time ; But the 1587-Spaniards were obliged at last, after a She surra 1 ’Fight of six flours, to hang out a Flag a ' erS ’of Truce, and to yield up Ship andCargo, to save their Lives. They foundin this Prize one Hundred and two and *

twenty Thousand Pezoes of Gold, with greatBoWgreat Quantities of rich Silks, Sattins , tn ^ eT ’Damasks,Musk,and divers other Sorts ofrich Merchandizes, and all Kinds ofProvisions. The Ship’s Crew and Pas- ^ gp fyfengers, to the Number of a Hundred ar ds/^^and fifty (some lay a Hundred and nine- Shoar atty) Persons, Men and Women, they set Puert0on Shoar, on the sixth, in the Harbour gur ° '

of Puerto SegurOj leaving them goodStore of Wine and Provisions, with theSails of their Ship, and some Plank, tobuild them Huts.

November the seventeenth, being ..Jnthe Queen’s Coronation Day, they dis- S ^charged all their Ordnance and smallShot, in both Ships, and at Night conti-nued the Celebration with Fireworks.

The nineteenth, they set Fire to the St.

Ann, having five Hundred Tun ofGoods in her, and saw her burnt downto the Water : And now the great Busi-ness being happily accomplished, theyset Sail very chearfully for England:

But their Joy was soon allayed, by the „ .ALoss of the Vice-Admiral, the Content.

She staid some little Time behind them,in the Road, and they expecting foewould have overtaken them, went onbefore, but never had her Company a-gain. The Admiral, however, continuedhis Voyage for the Ladi ones, and gotSight of one of them, called Guana, inthe Latitude of thirteen Degrees and for-ty Minutes, on the third of January>

1588. Here they met with sixty or seven- 1 fty Canoes, full of Savages, who broughtCocoes, Plantans, Potatoes and frdhFish, to exchange for some of theirCommodities. On the fourteenth, theyfell in with a Head-land of one of the

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Philippine Islands called Cabo del SpiritoSanto. The fifteenth, they fell in withthe Ifle of Capul, where, finding a goodHarbour, they came to Anchor, andtrafficked with the seven Caciques orChiefs of the Istand. Here they laynine Days, being well furniflied withfrelh Victuals, good Water and Wood ;

And here they perform’d an Execution „on the Spanip Pilot of the St. Ann, who, j.Ahaving plotted to betray them into the ^Hands of the Spaniards, was hanged-He was betrayed by his Comrade, nPortuguese, and a Letter, which he had

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