2p8 Eliz. Naval Expeditions, &c. oj the English, Book ll-

1593. strove with uncertain and dangerousCurrents, he got safe into the open Sea,Passes the anc * waSj according to the Spaniard?*Strelght of Account, the sixth Man who had theMagellan. Honour and Fortune to pass that

Streight.

Plunders Sailing afterwards along the Coaststhe Spanish of Chili, at Val Parizo, (or, Villa Pa-

Storehouses, raiso) he plundered the Spanish Store-and takes - J r - - - -

five Ships,

houses on the Shoar, and took five la-

den Merchant-Ships, one of which he

carried off, in which was some Gold

brought from Baldivia , Conception, &c.

Carries of and ransomed the Rest for two Thou-

we and ran- p anc [ j) uc p e ts, tho’ they were said to be[cms the , J

Res- worth twenty.

Proceeding thence to Arica, hewas there met and attacked, by theVice-roy’s Command, by Bertrand' diHe is in Ca fro, with eight Ships, which wereTdlsthe*' fi tte d out to take a severe Revenge ofSpaniards. Hawkins for his Pyracies, and mannedwith two Thousand Men ; But to hisown Loss, having spent his Powder andBall, to little Purpose, and being ter-ribly shattered by Wind and Weather.

Harris gives the following Accountof this Action.' The Englifo and Spani-beaten hy* ar ^ s filing within Sight of one another,theWeather. great Preparations for the Fight weremade, on both Sides, But the Wind in-terposed, and fought so well on the Be-half of the English, that the unwieldyShips of the Spaniards came off withbroken Masts, "and shattered Tackling.The Admiral snapp’d her Main-mastasunder, and so began to lag astern, andwith him two other Ships.. The Vice-Admiral split her Main-Sail, and theRear-Admiral crack’d her Main-Yard,and one only Ship of the Armada,which was got to the Windward was atLeisure to fight; But site had no Stomachto it, and durst not begin the Attack.Thus they lay for a whole Hay, view-ing one another; But, as Night cameon, Hawkins began to consult with hisOfficers, what Course was best to take.They were in a Manner surrounded ;For the Spanish Admiral, with twomore, were astern of them, the Rear-Admiral right a-head, the Vice-Ad-miral to the Leeward, and one uponthe Loos; And most of them withinShot. In short, after many Debates itwas concluded, that they should bear upbefore the Wind, and endeavour tomake their Escape between the Admi-ral and Vice-Admiral, which they ac-cordingly put in Execution, before the. Moon was up ; And very happily per-formed.

Hawkins had the good Fortune to * 593 *escape now, and steering his Course forthe Bay of Atacama, met, about fiftyLeagues to the Northward of Lima,and in Sight of the Town of Mongon ; ^

with a Spanijh Ship of about a Hundred ^ urn5 aWTuns, laden with Wheat, Sugar, Car- nisli Shipdovan- Skins, and Miele de Canas, tookher, and after having pillaged her ofwhat they had a Mind to, setFire to her,setting her People first on Shoar. TheSpanish Admiral having re-inforced hisSquadron, and got fresh Supplies of allNecessaries, pursued Hawkins to Ataca-ma, where he attacked him a secondTime; But, at first, with as little Suc-cess as before. Hawkins being, however,overpowered, and having maintained abrave and obstinate Fight, for threeDays But isand three Nights, was, at Length, Length 'Ldriven to the Necessity of accepting ^jstake*-the Enemy’s Offers of Life and Liber-ty, for himself and his Men which wereleft, with their Passage to England assoon as might be ; And surrendered onthose Terms j Tho’ not till all his Sailswere torn, his Masts shattered, hisPumps shot to Pieces, his Ship all overmangled, the greater Part of his Menkilled, and seven or eight Foot Waterin the Hold ; And the Admiral himselfwounded and weak; Notwithstanding‘ all which, he would hardly have con-sented to it, had it not been for the Im-portunity of his people; Tho’ his Shipwas in a ■ Measure sinking under him.

The Admiral swore by his Maker, andby his Knighthood, that the Terms a-greed upon should be punctually per-formed, and in Token of it sent Haw-kins his Glove. Upon this, the Spaniardsentered the Ship, without committingthe least Outrage or Insolence.

After the Admiral was taken, DonBertrand shewed him a Letter from theKing of Spain, to the Viceroy of Peru ,giving a particular Account of his Vo-yage, the Ships, their Number, theirBurden, their Ammunition, and whi-ther they were designed; Adding," You" may fee by this, whether the Kingmy Master has not some goodFriends" m England. ” To this Hawkins re-plied, " That it was no Wonder his" Master had so many Friends every" where, since he had so much Gold“ a nd Silver; And it was no uncom-" mon Thing to fee them make Peo-" pl e tell Tales out of School, and out" of Country too.” And the Truth ofit is, the Spaniards ought not to be

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