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Puna, in the Soufh-Sea, near the mainLand of Peru, made themselves Ma-sters of the Town, and seized the Go-vernors of the Istand. They then at-tempted the Town of Guayaquil, onthe Coast of Peru, which they took andplundered, (ni)

Going farther up the River, theyseized some Plate, and other Things ofValue, which they found, partly insome Canoes, which were retiring upinto the Country, and partly in theHouses along the River Side. Sailingfrom thence, they took two more Prizes,(n) and, landing afterwards on theContinent, they plundered a SpanishVillage. ( 0)

Off of Puerto Seguro, they met, thetwenty-second of December, a Ship be-longing to Acapulco (p) which, after anEngagement of half an Hour, theytook. They afterwards met and attack-ed the greater Acapulco Ship; But wereobliged to .leave her, after having en-gaged her two Days succestively, andboth done and suffered considerableDamage. (7)

They, hereupon, resolved to returnhome, by the Way of the Eafi-Indies,with the lesser Mrm'/s-Ship, of which

Captain Dover, second Captain of thd 1712.Duke, was made Commander. They sA arrivehappily arrived in the Downs, with all ^^ Downs -the three Ships, the second of Odlober,

1711. after having sailed round theGlobe, in three Years and two Monthsi(r)

Vice-Admiral Baker’.! Proceedings onthe Coajl of Portugal.

Vice-Admiral Baker, having beendetached, by Sir John Jennings, fromPort-Mahon, to the Coast of Portugal,with a Squadron (s) to protect the Por-tuguese Trade, received there Orders,from the Lords of the Admiralty, toconvoy the Store-ships, Victualers andTransports, bound to Port-Mahon, forSupply of the Fleet, off of Cape Spar-tel, or into the Streighfs Mouth, andthence to fend two Men of War withthem to Gibraltar .

Pursuant hereunto, he failed fromLisbon, the eighth of February, 17x2.The sixteenth, he chased a Ship abouttwelve or thirteen Leagues from CapeSt. Mary's, which run on Shoar, andfunk on a Bank, as they afterwards

found,

Vice-Admi-ral BakerproteSs thePortuguese-Trade .

Convoys aS upply ofProvisions,&c, to Port-Mahon.

Drives aFr. Shipa Jhsar.

in Mony. The six and twentieth, they took an-other such small Prize, which had nothing onBoard but Timber, and a few Cacao Nuts. Thesecond of April, they took a large Prize of fourHundred Tuns, from Panama. She had sixtyNegroes on Board, besides several Passengers, anda Loading of dry Goods. The next Day, theyTook another small Vessel, laden with Timber,from Gz/wy^«i/,having, besides, about the Value ofninety or a Hundred Pounds in Plate and Mony.The fifteenth, they took another French-bniltPrize, called, when the French had her, La Luned’Or, (the Golden Moon). She had seventy Ne-groes, and a great Number of Passengers on Board,was of about two Hundred and seventy Tuns,and laden with Bale Goods, besides a considerableQuantity of Pearls. The next Day, they took asmall Bark laden with Hides and Flour.

(m) It consisted of about five Hundred Houses,with three Churches, and was defended by a con-siderable Body of Spaniards. The Town, afterIt was plundered, was ransomed (together withtwo new Ships, of four Hundred Tuns each, andsix Barks, which were seized on the River) forthirty Thousand Dollars.

(n) One they took the fifth of June: She wasof about'eiahty Tuns, bound from Panama forGuayanun, with Iron, Cloth, Vr. The Gover-nor of Baldivia, with some other Passengers ofNote were in this Ship,with their Negroes, so allto the' Number of eighty. The other was taken,the eighth of the fame Month, being a Bark ofabout fifty Tuns ; They found m her, in GoldChains and Mony, to the Value of about five or

six Hundred Pounds. .

( 0 ) At this Time, the Mony and Prize Goods,’belonging to the Owsl ers of the Privateers, were

computed to amount to eighty Thousand Pounds.They carried on Board, from this Village, sevenBullocks, fourteen Hogs, some Goats, Fowls,Wheat, and other Provisions; As likewise, someMony, and they sold some of their Negroes.

(p) She was of four Hundred and fifty (Capt.Cooke fays about four Hundred) Tuns, carryingtwenty Guns, and as many Brass Pattereroes, withone Hundred and ninety three Men, twenty 0 fwhich were killed in the Action. She came fromManila , together with the larger Ship mentionedabove, being both bound home, with Eaft-IndiaGoods. Her Cargo, according to the Report ofthe Prisoners, amounted to, in India, two Mh-os Dollars.

. ((f) She was a very strong new Ship, of abovenine Hundred Tuns Burden, mounted with fortyGuns (and would mount sixty) and the fameNumber of Brass Pattereroes, and manned withfix Hundred Seamen, near a fourth Part of which,were English , Irijh, and other Europeans. ThePrisoners taken in the other Ship assured them, ifthey boarded them with five Hundred Men, theywould lose them all: For they were provided withfalse Decks, and, having Notice of their lying inWait for them, they had so provided for theirSecurity, that they would find it impossible totake her, with their Force.

(r) In this Voyage, they took two SpaniftTowns, and twenty Prizes, Ships and Barks Ofwhich, however, they only brought Home theAcapulco-§\i\]s, having either sold, ransomed, orthrown off the Rest. Captain Cooke gives us a ve-ry particular Account of thePrize-Goods, too longto be inserted here.

(s) He had, with him, five Third-Rates, oneFourth-, and two Fifth-Rates.