Chap. LII. during the Reign os ^ueen Elizabeth.

1595. no palling them, and this Passage strong-ly barricaded and fortified by the Spa-niards ; The other., a Road used by theIndians, which was, of itself, very bad,and now rendered almost unpassable bythe Cutting down of Trees^ and otherImpediments. The latter of these two,they thought the most eligible, andhaving a Spaniard with them, whomthey had taken out of one of the Cara-vels, who offered to shew them the Way,if they would afterwards give him hisLiberty, they took him for their Guide,and with him several Carpenters to cuttheir Passage thro’ the Woods, and theHinderances laid in their Way. In theirMarch, which was ■ very difficult, andexceeding mountainous, they found se-veral Indian Houses, which they leftunhurt. At Length, after the most*tiresome Passage that ever Men went, inwhich several of their Company were lofatigued, that they often lay down, andbeg’d of theirOfficers rather to kill them,than to compel them to go farther, theyJago de arrived at the Town of St. J ago de Leon,e ° a taken, which they took, on the nine and twen-tieth of May, the very Day of theirArrival, after very little Resistance ;But the Inhabitants, having had timely 1Notice of their coming, had removedtheir best Effects to the Mountains.They stay’d there ’till the third of June,and "had some Conferences with the Sjq-

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ttiards concerning a Ransom, but could 159,5.come to no Agreement. The Ehglijh.demanded thirty ThousandDucketsyBut could never bring the Spaniards tooffer more- than four Thousand, andthat only to gain Time, ’till they couldget some Troops together. They, there-fore, burnt-the Town, and several Til- The sown,lages in the Neighbourhood, and then; TherPhstreturning to their Ships, set Fire to the burnt.

Fort, and embarked ; Not having lost aMan in this tiresome and dangerous Jogmny.

' The fifth, they set Sail for a littleTown called Cor os. In this Passage, ^urnt. ^they burnt three Sfanijh Ships, on theCoast, which they could not bring off,because the Spaniards had carried theSails on Shoar, The ninth, they enter-ed the Bay of Cor os, and, on the ele- Coros takenventh, took the Town, after some Re- ancl hurnt 'sistance. The Spaniards having Here,as at St. Jago, secured their best Effects,-they made no Stay, but having reducedthe Town to Ashes, embarked again,the next Days Our Adventurers, meet-ing with nothing else worthy of Remarkreturned homewards; and arrived at -Milford-haven; the tenth of September , J MUsoff-having performed this long Voyage with- Haven.in six Months; During whichTime, theDamage done to the Spaniards infinitelyexceeded the Advantage which accruedto themselves.

CHAP. LII.

T h e Earl of Cumberland’r eighth Expedition.

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? Share, allowedhim by the Court, of the Trea-sure taken in the Spanijh Carrack,ivTp. called the Madre de Dios, (or Motherof God) to the taking of which his Shipshad contributed the most; And beingyet more displeased at the Loss of thetwo great Carracks (of which the Rea-der has seen an Account above, in hisseventh Expedition,) for Want of asufficient Force to take them, built ath f Ship of his own, of nine Hundred Tuns,at Deptford, which being the best andlargest Ship that, ’till then, had everbeen built by any Englijh Subject, HerMajesty was pleased Herself to give hera Name, at the Time of Launchingwhich was the Scourge of Malice,

This Ship made three Voyages for 1595?his Lordship, and was afterwards fold tothe E as-India Company, for whom shemade many Returns, by the Name ofthe Dragon, and was very fortunate a-gainst the Portuguese, in the East : But,to return to the present Expedition.

His Lordship fully intended to have Names of tieperformed this Voyage himself, in his Ships andnew Ship, and had fitted out the AJcedo, Commandersunder the Command of Captain Monfon,for his Vice-Admiral, the Anthony, com-manded by Captain Daniel Jarret and Thg Egsfthe old Frigat; But when he was got as returns. ‘far as Plymouth, he received Her Ma-jesty’s Orders to return, which he obey-ed.

The Ships, however, proceeded on Captaintheir Adventure, his. Lordship having

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