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A08210	Sir Francis Drake reuiued calling vpon this dull or effeminate age, to folowe his noble steps for golde & siluer, by this memorable relation, of the rare occurrances (neuer yet declared to the world) in a third voyage, made by him into the West-Indies, in the yeares 72. & 73. when Nombre de Dios was by him and 52. others only in his company, surprised. Faithfully taken out of the reporte of M· Christofer Ceely, Ellis Hixon, and others, who were in the same voyage with him. By Philip Nichols, preacher. Reviewed also by Sr. Francis Drake himselfe before his death, & much holpen and enlarged, by diuers notes, with his owne hand here and there inserted. Set forth by Sr Francis Drake Baronet (his nephew) now liuing.	Nichols, Philip.; Drake, Francis, Sir, d. 1637.	1626 (1626)	STC 18544; ESTC S110153	58,008	104

Wee spent not past two houres in our attendance till it pleased God after a great shevvr to send vs a reasonable calme so that we might vse our Peeces and approach her at pleasure in such sort that in short time we had taken her finding her laden with victuall well poudred and dryed which at that present wee receiued as sent vs of Gods great mercy After all things vvere set in order and that the Winde increased tovvards night vve plyed off and on till day at vvhat time our Captaine sent in Edward Hixom vvho had then charge of his Pinnace to search out some Harbor along the Coast who hauing found out a little one some tenne or twelue leagues to the East of Santa Martha where in sounding he had good ground and sufficient water presently returned and our Captaine brought in his new Prize Then by promising liberty and all their apparell to the Spaniards which we had taken if they would bring vs to water and fresh victuals the rather by their meanes wee obtained of the inhabitants Indians what they had which was plentifull These Indians were clothed and gouerned by a Spaniard which dwelt in the next Tovvne not past a league off we stayed there all day watering and wooding and prouiding things necessary by giuing content and satisfaction to the Indians But towards night our Captaine called all of vs aboard onely leauing the Spaniards lately taken in the Prize ashoare according to our promise made them to their great content who acknowledged that our Captaine did them a farre greater fauour in setting them freely at liberty then hee had done them displeasure in taking their Ship and so set sayle The sickenesse which had begunne to kindle amongst two or three dayes before did this day shewe it selfe in Charles Glub one of our Quarter-Masters a very tall man and a right good Mariner taken away to the great greefe both of Captaine and Company What the cause of this malady was we knewe nor of certainety we imputed it to the colde which our men had taken lying without succour in the Pinnaces But howsoeuer it was thus it pleased God to visit vs and yet in fauour to restore vnto health all the rest of our Company that were touched with this disease which were not a few The next morning being faire weather though the Winde continued contrary our Captaine commanded the Minion his lesser Pinnace to hasten away before him towards his Shippes at Fort Diego within the Cabeças to cary newes of his comming and to put all things in a readinesse for our Land journey if they heare any thing of the Fleets arriuall by the Simerons giuing the Minion charge if they wanted Wine to take Saint Bernards in their way and there take in some such portion as they thought good of the Wines which we had there hidden in the sand We plyed to windwards as neere as we could so that within a seauen-night after the Minion departed from vs we came to Saint Barnards where we stayed many houres finding but twelue Botijos of Wine of all the store wee left which had escaped the curious search of the Enemy who had beene there for that they were deepe in the ground Within foure or fiue dayes after we came to our Ship where we found all other things in good order but receiued very heauy newes of the death of Iohn Drake our Captaines brother and another young man called Richard Allen which were both slaine at one time as they attempted the boarding of a Fregate within two dayes after our departing from them The manner of it as wee learned by examination of the Company was this when they saw this Fregate at Sea as they were going towards their Fort with planckes to make the Platformes the Company were very importunate on him to giue chase and set vpon this Fregate which they deemed had beene a fit booty for them But he told them that they wanted weapons to assaile they knew not how the Fregate was prouided they had their boat loaden with planckes to finish that his brother had commanded But when this would not satisfie them but that still they vrged him with words and supposals If you will needs said he aduenture it shall neuer be said that I will be hindmost neither shall you report to my Brother that you lost your voyage by any covvardise you found in me Thereupon euery man shifted as they might for the time and heauing their planckes ouer board tooke them such poore vveapons as they had viz. a broken pointed Rapier one old Visgee and a rusty Caliuer I●hn Drake tooke the Rapier and made a Gantlet of his Pillovv Richard Allen the Visgee both standing in the head of the Pinnace called the Ei●n Robert tooke the Caliuer and so boarded But they found the Fregate armed round about vvith a close fight of hides full of Pikes and Caliuers vvhich vvere discharged in their faces and deadly vvounded those that vvere in the Fore-shippe Iohn Drake in the belly and Richard Allen in the head But notvvithstanding their vvounds they vvith Oares shifted off the Pinnace got cleare of the Fregate and vvith all hast recouered their Shippe vvhere vvithin an houre after this young man of great hope ended his dayes greatly lamented of all the Company Thus hauing moared our Shippes fast our Captaine resolued to keepe himselfe close vvithout being descried vntill he might heare of the comming of the Spanish Fleet and therefore set no more to Sea but supplyed his vvants both for his ovvne Company and the Symerons out of his foresaid Magazine besides daily out of the vvoods vvith vvilde Hogges Pheasants and Guanas continuing in health God be praised all the meane time vvhich vvas a month at least till at length about the beginning of Ianuary halfe a score of our Company fell dovvne sicke together and the most of them dyed vvithin tvvo or three dayes so long that vve had thirty at a time sicke of this Calenture vvhich attache our men either by reason of the suddaine change from cold to heate or by reason of brackish vvater vvhich had beene taken in by one Pinnace through the sloth of their men in the mouth of the Riuer not rovving further in vvhere the vvater vvas good Among the rest Ioseph Drake another of his brethren dyed in our Captaines armes of the same disease of vvhich that the cause might bee the better discerned and consequently remedyed to the releefe of others by our Captaines appointment hee was ript open by the Surgeon who found his Liuer swolne his heart as it were sodden and his guts all faire This was the first and last experiment that our Captaine made of Anatomy in this voyage The Surgeon that cut him vp ouer-liued him not past foure dayes although hee were not toucht with that sickenesse of which he had beene recouered aboue a month before but onely of an ouerbold practise which he would needs make vpon himselfe by receiuing

Emmet Among the manifold examples hereof which former ages haue committed to memory or our time yeelded to sight I suppose there hath not beene any more notable then this in hand either in respect of the greatnesse of the person by whom the first injury was offered or the meannesse of him who righteth himself the one being in his owne conceit the mightiest Monarch of all the world the other an English Captaine a meane subiect of her Maiesties Who besides the wrongs receiued at Rio de Hacha with Captaine Iohn Louell in the yeares 65. and 66. hauing beene greiuosly indamaged at Saint Iohn de Vllua in the bay of Mexico with Captaine Iohn Hawkins in the yeares 67. and 68. not onely in the losse of his goods of some value but also of his kinsmen friends and that by the falshood of Don Martin Henriquez then the viceroy of Mexico and finding that no recompence could bee recouered out of Spaine by any of his owne meanes or by her Maiesties letters hee vsed such helpes as hee might by two seuerall voiages into the West Indies the first with two Ships the one called the Dragon the other the Swan in the yeare 70. the other in the Swan alone in the yeare 71. to gaine such intelligences as might further him to get some amends for his losse And hauing in those two voyages gotten such certaine notice of the persons places aimed at as he thought requisite and therevppon with good deliberation resolued on a third voyage the description whereof we haue now in hand hee accordingly prepared his shippes and Company and then taking the first opportunity of a good winde had such successe in his proceedings as now followes farther to be declared On Whitsunday Eeue being the 24. of May in the yeare 1572. Captaine Drake in the Pascha of Plimouth of 70. tonnes his Admirall with the Swanne of the same Port of 25. tonnes his Vice-Admirall in which his brother Iohn Drake was Captaine hauing in both of them of men and boyes seauenty three all voluntarily assembled of which the eldest was fifty all the rest vnder thirty so deuided that there were forty seauen in the one ship and twenty six in the other both richly furnished with victualles and apparell for a whole yeare and no lesse heedfully prouided of all manner of munition Artillery Artificers stuffe and tooles that were requisite for such a Man of warre in such an attempt but especially hauing three dainty Pinnases made in Plimouth taken a sunder all in peeces and stowed aboard to be set vp as occasion serued set sayle from out of the Sound of Plimouth with intent to land at Nombre da Dios. The winde continued prosperous and fauorable at Northeast and gaue as a very good passage without any alteration or change so that albeit we had sight of Porto Sa to one of the Maderas and of the Canaries also within twelue dayes of our setting forth yet we neuer strooke sayle nor came to anchor nor made any stay for any cause neither there nor elsewhere vntill 25. dayes after when we had sight of the Iland of Guadalupe one of the Ilands of the West Indies goodly high land The next morning we entred between Dominica Guadalupe where we descryed two Canoas comming from a rocky Iland three leagues off Dominica which vsually repayre thither to fish by reason of the great plenry thereof which is there continually to be found Wee landed on the South side of it remaining there three dayes to refresh our men and water our ships out of one of those goodly riuers which fall downe off the mountaine There we sawe certaine poore cottages built with Palmito boughs and branches but no inhabitants at that time ciuill nor sauage the cottages it may be for we could know no certaine cause of the solitarinesse we found there seruing not for continuall inhabitation but only for their vses that came to that place at certaine seasons to fish The third day after about three in the after-noone wee set sayle from thence towards the continent of Terra firma And the fift day after wee had sight of the high land of Santa Martha but came not neere the shoare by ten leagues But thence directed our course for a place called by vs Port Phesant for that our Captaine had so named it in his former voyage by reason of the great store of those goodly Fowles which he and his Company did then daily kill and feed on in that place In this course notwithstanding wee had two dayes calme yet within six dayes after we arriued at our Port Phesant which is a fine round Bay of very safe harbor for all winds lying betweene two high points not past halfe a cables length ouer at the mouth but within eight or tenne cables length euery way hauing ten or twelue faddome water more or lesse full of good fish the soyle also very fruitfull which may appeare by this that our Captaine hauing beene in this place within a yeare and fewe dayes before and hauing ridde the place with many alleys and paths made yet now all was so ouer-grown againe as that we doubted at first whither this were the same place or no. At our entrance into this Bay our Captaine hauing giuen order to his brother what to doe if any occasion should happen in his absence was on his way with intent to haue gone aland with some fewe only in his company because he knew there dwelt no Spaniards within thirty fiue leagues of that place Tolou being the neerest to the Eastwards and Nombre de Dios to the westwards where any of that Nation dwelt But as we were rowing a shoare we saw a smoake in the woods euen neere the place which our Captaine had aforetime frequented therefore thinking it fit to take more strength with vs he caused his other boat also to be mand with certaine muskets and other weapons suspecting some enemy had beene a shoare When we landed we found by euident markes that there had beene lately there a certaine English man of Plimouth called Iohn Garret who had beene conducted thither by certaine English Mariners which had beene there with our Captaine in some of his former voyages He had now left a plate of Lead nailed fast to a mighty great tree greater then any foure men joyning hands could fathome about on which were engrauen these words directed to our Captaine CAptaine Drake if you fortune to come to this Port make hast away For the Spaniards which you had with you here the last yeare haue bewrayed this place and taken away all that you left here I depart from hence this present 7. of Iuly 1572. Your very louing friend IOHN GARRET The smoake which wee sawe was occationed by a fire which the said Garret and his Company had made before their departure in a very great tree not farre from this which had the lead nayled on it which had continued

descry what might bee the cause espied ouer the land diuers Fregates and small shipping bringing themselues within the Castle This report our Captaine credited the rather for that himselfe had heard the report of the Ordinance at sea and perceiued sufficiently that hee was now descried notwithstanding in farther examination of this old mariner hauing vnderstood that there was within the next point a great ship of Siuell which had here discharged her loading and rid now with her yards a crosse being bound the next morning for Saint Domingo our Captaine tooke this old man into his Pinnace to verifie that which hee had informed and rowed towards this Ship which as wee came neere it hayled vs asking whence our Shallops were wee answered from Nombre de Dios straight way they raild and reuiled wee gaue no heed to their words but euery Pinnace according to our Captaines order one on the starboord bough the other on the starboord quarter and the Captaine in the midship on the larboord side forthwith boarded her though wee had some difficulty to enter by reason of her height being of two hundred forty Tunne But assoone as wee entred vpon the decks we threwe downe the grates and spardecks to preuent the Spaniards from annoying vs with their close fights who then perceiuing that wee were possessed of their Ship stowed themselues all in hold with their weapons except two or three yonkers which were found afore the beetes when hauing light out of our Pinnaces wee found no danger of the enemy remaining wee cut their Cables at halfe and with our three Pinnaces towed her without the Iland into the sound right afore the Towne without danger of their great shott Meane while the Towne hauing intelligence hereof by their watch tooke th' alarme rong out their Bells shott off about thirty Peeces of great Ordinance put all their men in a readines horse and foote came downe to the very point of the wood and discharged their Caliuers to impeach vs if they might in going forth The next morning our Ships tooke two Fregats in which were two who called themselues the Kings Scriuanos the one of Carthagene th' other of Veragua with seauen Mariners and two Negroes who had beene at Nombre de Dios and were now bound for Cathagene with double letters of aduise to certifie them that Captaine Drake had beene at Nombre de Dios had taken it and had it not beene that hee was hurt with some blessed shott by all likelihood hee had sackt it hee was yet still vpon the Coast they should therefore carefully prepare for him After that our Captaine had brought all his fleet together at the Scriuanos entreaties hee was content to doe them all fauor in setting them and all their companies a shore and so bare thence with the Ilands of Saint Barnards about three leagues off the Towne where wee found great store of fish for our refreshing Here our Captaine considering that hee was now discouered vpon 2. of the cheefest places of all the Coast and yet not meaning to leaue it till hee had found the Simerons and made his voiage as hee had conceiued which would require some length of time sure manning of his Pinnaces hee determined with himselfe to burne one of his Ships and make of the other a storehouse that his Pinnaces which could not otherwise might be throughly mand and so he might be able to abide any time But knowing the affection of his company how loath they were to leaue either of their Ships being both so good Saylers and so well furnished hee purposed in himselfe by some pollicy to make them most willing to effect that hee intended And therefore sent for one Thomas Moone who was Carpenter in the Swanne and taking him into his Cabbin chargeth him to conceale for a time a peice of seruice which hee must in any case consent to doe aboord his owne Ship that was in the middle of the second watch to goe downe secretly into the well of the Ship and with a great spike-gimlet to boare three hoales as neere the keele as hee could and lay something against it that the force of the water entring might make no great noise nor be discouered by boyling vp Thomas Moone at the hearing hereof being vtterly dismaied desired to knowe what cause there might bee to moue him to sincke so good a Bark of his owne new and strong and that by his meanes who had beene in two so rich and gainefull voyages in her with himselfe heretofore If his brother the Master and the rest of the company should knowe of such his fact hee thought verily they would kill him But when our Captaine had imparted to him his causes and had perswaded him with promise that it should not bee knowne till all of them should bee glad of it hee vndertooke it and did it accordingly The next morning our Captaine tooke his Pinnace very early purposing to goe a fishing for that there is very great store on all the Coast and falling aboord the Swanne calleth for his brother to goe with him who rising suddenly answereth that hee would follow presently or if it would please him to stay a very little hee would attend him Our Captaine perceiuing the feate wrought would not hasten him but in rowing away demanded of them why their Bark was so deepe as making no great account of it but by occasion of this demand his brother sent one downe to the Steward to know whether there were any water in the Ship or what other cause might bee The Steward hastily stepping downe at his vsuall skuttle was wett vp to the waste and shifting with more hast to come vp againe as if the water had followed him cryed out that the Ship was full of water There was no need to hasten the company some to the pumpe others to search for the leake which the Captaine of the Bark seeing they did on all hands very willingly hee followed his brother and certified him of the strange chance befalne them that night that whereas they had not pumpt twise in six weekes before now they had six foote water in hold therefore hee desireth leaue from attending him in fishing to intend the search and remedy of the leake and when our Captaine with his company profered to goe to helpe them hee answered they had men enough aboord and prayed him to continue his fishing that they might haue some part of it for their dinner Thus returning hee found his company had taken great paine but had freeed the water very little yet such was their loue to the Barke as our Captaine well knew that they ceased not but to the vtmost of their strength laboured all that they might till three in the afternoone by which time the company perceiuing that though they had beene relieued by our Captaine himselfe and many of his company yet they were not able to free aboue a foote and a halfe of water and could haue no likelihood of

voyage also Though vvee had him in some jealousie and distrust for all his pretence because vvee considered more the strength hee had then the good-vvill hee might beare vs yet vpon consultation among our selues vvhether it vvere fit to receiue him or no vvee resolued to take him and twenty of his men to serue with our Captaine for halfes in such sort as wee needed not doubt of their forces being but twenty nor be hurt by their portions being no greater then ours and yet gratifie them in their earnest suite and serue our owne purpose which without more helpe wee could very hardly haue atcheiued Indeed hee had seauenty men and wee now but thirty one his Ship was aboue eighty Tunne and our Fregate not past twenty our Pinnace nothing neere tenne Tunne yet our Captaine thought this proportionable in consideration that not number of men but quality of their judgements and knowledge were to bee the principall actors herein and the French Shippe could doe no seruice nor stand in any steed to this enterprise which we intended and had agreed vpon long before both touching the time when it should take beginning and the place where wee should meet namely at Rio Francisco Hauing thus agreed with Captaine Tetu wee sent for the Symerons as before was decreed Two of them were brought aboard our Shippes to giue the French assurance of this agreement And as soone as wee could furnish our selues and refresh the French Company which vvas within fiue or sixe dayes by bringing them to the Magazine which was the neerest where they were supplyed by vs in such sort as they protested they were beholding to vs for all their liues taking twenty of the French and fifteene of ours with our Symerons leauing both our Shippes in safe Roade wee mand our Fregate and two Pinnaces wee had formerly suncke our Lyon shortely after our returne from Panama because wee had not men sufficient to man her and went towards Rio Francisco which because it had not water enough for our Fregate caused vs to leaue her at the Cabeças mand with English and French in the charge of Robert Doble to stay there without attempting any chase vntill the returne of our Pinnaces And then beare to Rio Francisco where both Captaines landed with such force as aforesaid and charged them that had the charge of the Pinnaces to be there the fourth day next following without any faile And thus knowing that the cariages went now daily from Panama to Nombre de Dios vve proceeded in couert through the Woods tovvards the high way that leadeth betvvene them It is fiue leagues accounted by Sea betvveene Rio Francisco and Nombre de Dios but that vvay vvhich vvee marched by land vve found it aboue seauen leagues Wee marched as in our former journey to Panama both for order and silence to the great vvonder of the French Captaine and Company vvho protested they knevv not by any meanes hovv to recouer the Pinnaces if the Symerons to vvhome vvhat our Captaine commanded was a law though they little regarded the French as hauing no trust in them should leaue vs our Captaine assured him there vvas no cause of doubt of them of vvhom he had had such former tryall When vve vvere come vvithin an English mile of the vvay vvee stayed all night refreshing our selues in great stilnesse in a most conuenient place vvhere vve heard the Carpenters being many in number vvorking vpon their Shippes as they vsually doe by reason of the great heat of the day in Nombre de Dios might heare the Moyles comming from Panama by reason of the aduantage of the ground The next morning vpon hearing of that great number of Belles the Symerons rejoyced exceedingly as though there could not haue befallen them a more joyfull accident cheefely hauing beene disappointed before Now they all assured vs wee should haue more gold and siluer then all of vs could beare away as in truth it fell out For there came three Recoes one of fifty Moyles the other two of seauenty each euery of which caryed three hundred pound waight of siluer which in all amounted to neere thirty Tunne Wee putting our selues in readinesse went downe neere the way to heare the Belles where we stayed not long but we sawe of what mettall they were made and tooke such hold on the heads of the foremost and hindmost Moyles that all the rest stayed and lay downe as their manner is These three Recoes were guarded with forty fiue Souldiers or their abouts fifteene to each Reco which caused some exchange of Ballets and Arrowes for a time in which conflict the French Captaine was sore wounded with hayle-shot in the belly and one Symeron slaine but in the end these Souldiers thought it the best way to leaue their Moyles with vs and to seeke for more helpe abroad in which meane time wee tooke some paine to ease some of the Moyles which were heauiest loaden of their cariages And because wee our selues were somewhat weary wee were contented with a few barres and quoits of gold as wee could well cary burying about fifteene Tunne of siluer partly in the boroughs which the great Land-crabs had made in the earth and partly vnder old Trees which were fallen thereabout and partly in the sand and grauell of a Riuer not very deepe of water Thus when about this businesse wee had spent some two houres and had disposed of all our matters and were ready to march backe the very selfe same way that we came wee heard both Horse and Foote comming as it seemed to the Moyles for they neuer followed vs after we were once entred the Woods where the French Captaine by reason of his wound not able to trauell farther stayed in hope that some rest would recouer him better strength But after wee had marched some two leagues vpon the French Souldiers complaint that they missed one of their men also examination being made whether hee were slaine or no it was found that hee had druncke much Wine and ouerlading himselfe with pillage and hasting to goe before vs had lost himselfe in the Woods And as wee afterwards knew hee was taken by the Spaniards that euening and vpon torture discouered vnto them where we had hidden our Treasure We continued our march all that and the next day towards Rio Francisco in hope to meet with our Pinnaces but when we came thither looking out to Sea wee savve seauen Spanish Pinnaces which had beene searching all the Coasts thereabout vvhereupon vvee mightily suspected that they had taken or spoiled our Pinnaces for that our Captaine had giuen so straight charge that they should repaire to this place this after-noone from the Cabecas vvhere they rode vvhence to our sight these Spaniards Pinnaces did come But the night before there had fallen very much raine with much westerly winde which as it enforced the Spaniards to returne home the sooner by reason of the storme so it kept our Pinnaces that they could