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A26296	The voyages and adventures of Capt. Barth. Sharp and others in the South Sea being a journal of the same : also Capt. Van Horn with his buccanieres surprizing of la Veracruz : to which is added the true relation of Sir Henry Morgan his expedition against the Spaniards in the West-Indies and his taking Panama : together with the president of Panama's [i.e. Juan Perez de Guzman] account of the same expedition, translated out of Spanish : and Col. Beeston's adjustment of the peace between the Spaniards and English in the West Indies / published by P.A., Esq.	Ayres, Philip, 1638-1712.; Perez de Guzman, Juan.; Beeston, William, Sir, b. 1636.	1684 (1684)	Wing A4315; ESTC R9181	65,058	198

them understanding The Castle of Chagre blocked our way The Admiral called a Council of all the Captains where it was resolved that we should attack this Castle of Chagre Of the taking the CASTLE OF CHAGRE FOR this purpose were four hundred and seventy men in three Ships forthwith dispatched away under the command of Captain Ioseph B●dley with three other Captains and four Lieutenants On the 27. they were safely landed within four Miles of the Castle by twelve a Clock at Night By two they had made their approach within Shot one of the other and by three a Clock had got into their Trenches where they continued fighting till eight in the Morning from whence they had returned without effecting their design if in plying their Granadoes they had not set a Guard-house on fire that stood upon the Walls which caused a breach where our Men couragiously stormed and the enemy as bravely defended to the last Man and obstinately refusing Quarter it cost them the lives of three hundred and sixty Men. Of our side were thirty killed out right one Captain and one Lieutenant and seventy six wounded whereof the brave Bradley was one with two Lieutenants who dyed within ten dayes after of their Wounds to the great grief of the Admiral and of all our Fleet in general Admiral Morgan's Expedition against Panama JAnuary the second 1670 1 Admiral Morgan arrived with the whole Fleet and understanding that the Enemy lay with Forces to endeavour the re-taking of the Castle of Chagre he gave order for the Fleet to follow him into the Harbour but five of the foremost had the ill fortune to be cast away amongst which the Ship where in the Admiral himself was was one and four more but they saved their Men. The rest of the Fleet being come in they prepared to go up the River where the Admiral understood our Enemies had entrenched themselves and had six several Retreats in Breast-Works whereupon he gave order That seven sail of the lesser Ships should be fitted to go up the River and fill'd them with Men and great Guns leaving three hundred to guard the Castle and the Ships under the command of Captain Richard Norman Munday the ninth Admiral Morgan began to set forward with fourteen hundred Men in the said seven Ships and thirty six Boats The twelfth day he got to the first Intrenchment which the Spaniards had basely quitted and set all on fire as they did all the rest without striking a stroak for it Here he was forced to leave the Ships and Boats being unable to get them conveniently up further with two hundred Men to guard them under the command of Captain Robert Delander and we betook our selves to our march through the wild Woods where was no Road nor Path for four and twenty Miles together but what our Pioneers cut and made for us The fourteenth our Admiral with our Army arrived within two Miles of Venta Cruz the place where we should have landed if we had been able to have got our Vessels up so high And here we came to a narrow and dangerous Pass which the Enemy thought to have secured and put a stop to our further progress in that design but indeed they were presently routed by our Forlorn commanded by Captain Thomas Rogers the rest of our Men never being put to the trouble of firing one Shot and without sustaining any loss saving three Men slightly wounded but the Enemies loss we could never learn Ianuary the fifteenth we arrived at Venta Cruz upon the River of Chagre which is a very handsome Village and the place where they land and embark all the Goods which come and go to Panama And where we thought we might meet with some Provisions having marched three days with but a very slender Dyet but found this as the rest of the places we had passed all on fire and the Inhabitants and Souldiers all fled The sixteenth we marched on forwards the Enemy galling us from their Ambuscades and by small Parties and we still beating them for a League together although they had all the advantage of us that could be by reason of the Ways being so narrow that we could seldom march above four a Breast and was for the most part so deep and hollow that the Enemy could keep over our heads to annoy us About Noon we got safely to the Savanas or open Fields with the loss but of three Men Killed outright and six or seven wounded and of the Enemy twenty killed and one Captain besides many wounded About three Miles further we took up our Quarters to refresh our Men and thank God for the successful service of that day The seventeenth we continued our march without any opposition and about nine a Clock in the Morning saw that desired and long wished for sight the South Sea and not far distant from us 〈◊〉 parcel of Cattle and Horses feeding Whereupon our Admiral commanded a general halt to be made and gave our Men leave to kill Horses and Beeves enough to feast us all At about four a Clock in the Afternoon our Men having refreshed themselves very well we marched on again and at five came within sight of the Enemy where he was drawn up in Battalia with two thousand and one hundred Foot and six hundred Horse but finding the day far spent the Admiral thought it not fit to engage but took up quarters within a mile of them where we lay very quiet not being so much as once allarmed The next Morning being the eighteenth our Admiral gave out very early his Orders To draw out his Men in Battalia which was accordingly performed and they were drawn up in form of a Tertia The Vanguard which was led by Lieutenant Colonel Prince and Major Iohn Morris was in number three hundred Men. The main Body containing six hundred Men the right Wing thereof was led by the Admiral and the Left by Colonel Edward Collyer The Rere-Guard consisting of three hundred Men was commanded by Colonel Bledry Morgan Our Admiral after having viewed his Men and encouraged them commanded the Officers all to repair to their respective charges Mean while the Enemy being drawn up in an advantagious place still kept their station nor would at all move though often provoked by us fearing to lose the security of their Ground Which our Admiral perceiving presently gave order That our Officers should wheel our Body to the left and endeavour to gain a Hill which was hard by and which if once gained we should then force the Enemy to engage to their great disadvantage because he could not be able to bring out of his great Body any more Men to fight at a time than we should out of our small and that we should likewise have the advantage both of the Wind and Sun Our Officers streight put this command in execution and in a small time we gained the Hill together with a little dry Passage of convenience for us So the

one absurd story more amongst many others which I had like to have passed over without remark that is His firing the City of Panama just at his entring in to it as this French-Hollander affirms which if he did it was but ill Policy to burn the Town he came so far to plunder ' ere he was well got within it But this is owned by the President in his Letter to have been done by the Spaniards themselves on purpose to disappoint the English of their Booty By this ridiculous falsity may the Credit of the rest of that History be conjectured Many errours could I point out in that which is his Natural History of the Indies as for instance his Story of seeing the Caymanes or Cocodrills suffer their young ones to play and run into their Bellies for which Fancy he must have been I suppose obliged to Pliny or Aelian for I dare say no Man that has lived in the Indies will vouch for him But these being besides my business I pass by and have only this more to say That I forbear to print any more at present than that one Expedition of Sir Henry Morgan thinking that sufficient to convince the Falsities of that scandalous History of Buccanieres What acts of Hostility have been committed since the Peace made in the year 1670. betwixt the Spaniards and the Privatiers of several Nations have been many and considerable amongst which we have had no small loss fallen on our Merchant men trading there in the West-indies causing a great obstruction to our Trade The number of our Ships taken since then as I am informed is no less than one Hundred and Twenty a List of at least one half of which I am able to have here inserted which thing I fear increases the number of Privatiers in those Seas THE ADVENTURES OF Capt. Barth Sharp And Others in the South Sea THAT which often Spurs men on to the undertaking of the most difficult Adventures is the sacred hunger of Gold and 't was Gold was the bait that tempted a Pack of merry Boys of us near Three Hundred in Number being all Souldiers of Fortune under Command by our own Ele●tion of Captain I●hn Coxon to list our selves in the Service of one of the Rich West Indian Monarchs the Emperour of Darien or Durian Which Country has its Name from a River so called running into the South Sea almost a cross the I●●●mus which is between the two formerly Great Empires of Mexico and Peru and joyns the Northern and Southern America These Emperours of Darien heretofore commanded a large Tract of Land lying about the Bay of Darien but are now reduced to much narrower limits by their Enemies the Spaniards with whom they have continual Wars The Seat of this Empire is now in a Place called by us the Golden Island in the said Bay of Darien not very far distant from Porto Belo where the Spaniards ship their Treasure on board their Gallions for Spain After a kind invitation from the Indians and Treaty with the Emperour in Person he gladly listned to our Propositions and accepted us into his Service resolving with us to attempt the recovery of some of those Places the Spaniards had taken and kept from him particularly Santa Maria once the Bishop's See of that Diocese which was since removed to Panam● It is now but a small Town with a little Fort which serves for a Guard to the Spaniards while they gather their Gold-dust brought down on the Sands of a River running into the Darien The thoughts of a rich Booty encouraged us to this Design but we were all firmly resolved that in case we missed of good success in this to undertake a more hazardous Enterprize which was to go down the River Darien and in our Canoes attempt the surprise of the City of Panama and Ships lying there this being the Port where the Spaniards unlade their Vessels which bring their Treasure from Ciud●d de los Reyes or Lima as we still call it and from all other parts there on the South Sea as they likewise from thence export all their Merchandise coming from Europe which is landed at Porto Belo and brought over land thither to Panama Though the Undertaking seemed very imprudent we having no shipping of our own there and there being no other way home for us as we then had ever heard of but round about through the Streights of Magellan or Le Maire when we should have made our selves Masters of some of their Vessels yet the incouragement we had in the expectation of ●raighting home our Coffers with Spanish Gold and Pieces of Eight overcame all difficulties together with the hopes the Indians gave us of our getting to Panama e're the Spaniards could have intelligence of our coming and the satisfaction we had of the promise of having along with us the Company of our Emperour under whose Commission we fought These I say were the allurements that induced us to list our selves into this Service 5. Mund. All things being thus concluded on upon Munday the fifth day of April we landed about Seven a Clock in the morning and began our march with our Emperour in the head of us till two in the afternoon and took up our Quarters for that night in some Indian Houses 6. Tuesd. At the first appearance of day we began our march our last nights Lodging Chambers and Silk Beds being as much out of Fashion here as they were in Adam's time was nothing better than the cold Earth covered by the Starry Canopy which gave us but small encouragement to stay longer and travelled up a steep Mountain till about three at which hour we came to a fresh Spring of Water where we satdown and rested our selves then marching about six miles further we took up our Lodgings by a River-side 7. Wedn. Early in the morning we continued our march to King Goldencaps Court going till four we met two Indians loaden with Fruit which the King had sent us as a present which we thankfully accepted and marching an hour longer we came to the King's Pallace where he with his Nobility and Men of the best Quality gave us a kind Reception and Entertainment These Inhabitants are very handsome people though Tawny but clean limbed and well featured and are very obliging and affable as those of our Men who afterwards marcht back again over Land experienced 8. Thursd. This day finding such good Entertainment we staid at the Court being Favourites not inconsiderable and so well Armed and Resolute as our party was 9. Frid. In the morning we took our leave and our path being bad were forced to wade a River fifty or sixty times which almost foundered us at last we came to three large Indian Houses where we had free quarter and found all things convenient for refreshment by the Emperors and Kings command ready provided as Plantins Bonanoes and Moria Flesh but the same Lodging that Nature affords Animals less mischievous than

his Wound which had gangreened and was thrown into the Sea off of Cape Iucatan leaving his Son a Youth of about ten or twelve years of Age to the value as they say of twenty thousand Pounds Sterling on Board and his Lieutenant Gramont took upon him the command of the Ship intending for Petit Guave Laurence and the rest of the Fleet were seen not long after off of the Island of Iamaica and went for Guantanamo a Port on the South side of Cuba since that Spurre and three or four hundred more of them are said to be dead and his excellency Sir Thomas Linch the Governour of Iamaica was endeavouring to seize Spurre's Sloop This Account was sent in August 1683. from Iamaica Nevis in the West-Indies August 18. 1683. Captain Charles Carlisle Commander of his Majesties Ship the Francis having Orders from Sir William Stapleton Governour in chief of the Leeward Islands to go in search of several Pyrates who have infested these parts came on the first of this Month into the Road of S. Thomas one of the Virgin Islands where he found at Anchor the Ship la Trompeuse commanded by that notorious Pyrate Hamlin who had taken seventeen Ships of all Nations of which eleven English upon the Coast of Guinea and most barbarously and inhumanely treated the Men belonging to the● but the Francis no sooner came within reach of the Pyrate but she received a shot from him which was followed by another from the Castle Captain Carlisle sent on shoar to know the reason and to demand the Pyrate as a common Enemy but receiving no satisfactory answer he immediately prepared Fire-works and that Night fitted out his Boats and set the Pyrates Ship on fire and then rowed betwixt her and the Shoar to prevent any assistance that might come from thence to her relief all the Men that were on board her made their escape except four which were taken Prisoners The Fire took good effect and when the Pyrates Ship was burnt down to the Powder she blew up one piece of Timber of her which was all on fire lighting on another Ship likewise in the Road that used to be helpful to them in Careening burnt her also The next Morning the Francis setting sail from thence they espyed a Ship on Ground about a League from them which they made up to and coming to her found her a Ship laden with Cables Cordage and other necessaries for Shipping and designed for supply of the Pyrates wherefore they likewise set Fire to and burnt her and then again set sail for this Island where they safely arrived with the four pyrate Prisoners who upon Examination confessed That the day before the Trompeuse was burnt they had landed in the Castle there a very large Chest of Gold Dust 150 Piggs of Silver 200 Baggs of Coined Money besides Plate Jewels Elephants-Teeth and other valuable Goods and Commodities This service is very acceptable to all Traders in these parts whose Trade is very much secured by the destruction of this Pyrate The true Relation of Admiral Henry Morgans Expedition against the Spaniards in the West-Indies in the Year 1670. ADmiral Morgan on the fourteenth day of August 1670. put to sea with eleven Sail of Ships and six hundred Men and on the second day of September following arrived at a small Island called the Isle of Ash which was to be the place of Rendezvouz of all his Fleet●for● that Expedition From whence Vice-Admiral Collier upon the sixth of the same Month was dispatched with six Sail and three hundred and fifty Men for the Coast of the Main to get Prisoners for Intelligence and Victuals for the whole Fleet. The last day of September arrived Captain Morris in a small Ship ill manned and brought with him Emanuel de Rivera his Vessel of eight Sacres who had lately burnt the Coa●●s of Iamaica and had sent a Challenge to dare out the best Ship of that Island to come and fight him he was taken at the East end of Cuba The seventh of October following there happened so violent a Storm in the Harbour that it drove all the Fleet on Shoar except the Admiral 's Vessel then consisting of eleven Sail All● of which but three got off again and were made serviceable In this Month arrived three French Vessels and conditioned to sail under the Admiral And in November our Fleet was encreased with seven Sail more of English Ships Upon the twenty eighth of the same Month our Vice-Admiral Collier returned from the Main with good quantities of Provision and two of the Spaniards Vessels one of which called la Gallarda was of Rivera's Company assisting him to burn the Coaf●s of Iamaica Some of the Prisoners brought in this Ship confessed that the President of Panama Don Iuan Perez de Gusman had granted several Commissions against the English And that divers Spanish Ships with these Commissions were already out who had made Prize of as many English as they could master that they were still fitting out more and that the Spa●●●rds both at Land and Sea were arming against the English On the second day of December Admiral Morgan commanded all the Cap●ains on board him being thirty seven in number and demanded their advice what place was prope rest for them first to attack and their Result which they drew up and gave him under their hands was to this effect THAT having seriously considered what place might prove most feasible to attack and carry and be most advantageous for the safety of the English and in particular for the security of the Island of Iamaica for preventing the a noyances and invasions of the Spaniards they did all unanimously conclude That it would stand most for the general good of the English trading to Iamaica and the rest of his Majesties Plantations in the West-Indies to take Panama The President whereof having granted several Commissions against the English to the great anoyance of Iamaica and of our Merchant Men as both by the Oaths of the Spanish Prisoners and the very original Commissions taken with the afore mentioned Spanish Vessels did most evidently appear To which the Admiral consented and having called another time the Captains on board him to consult of the manner of carrying on that attempt and where to find Prisoners to be our Guides for Panama It was voted that from the Island of Providence most of the people there being taken from Panama that no place could be more fit December the eighth we sailed and the fourteenth we arrived at Providence by eight in the Morning and by two in the Afternoon were possessed of the great Island without any resistance The fifteenth the Admiral sent a a Summons to the Governour to deliver the Little Island who willingly submitted upon Condition That he might have good Quarter and Transportation to any part of the Main which was granted and duly performed But four of his Souldiers voluntarily took up Arms with us and became our Guides And by