THE MAIN, FLORIDA, AND VIRGINIA
other Captain Goche. Their armament is sixteen or eighteen pieces,
One of the captains is a seaman and the other a soldier.
Asked what pinnaces they were which came to land yesterday
and how many men they brought ... he said that one was his,
carrying seventeen or eighteen men; and he does not know how
many were in the others . . . they came to take wine from a frigate
there and were having a try for it when the horse and foot soldiers
came out and captured them ... (p. 28) ...
Asked what course they had followed since they left England, up
to now ... he said that they proceeded to Finisterre and to the
islands and there found other English ships. He does not know how
many. From there they steered for another island. He could not say
what land that was. From there they coasted along and came to
Gabo de la Vela and from there they followed the coast and passed
by this city eight leagues to sea. They kept clear because they had
not the force with which to approach. They went to Baru islands
and took a ship carrying live hogs. Its owners fled. Had he not done
so they would have let him have his vessel and the hogs.1 They set
the women on shore because they wept, and a man; and kept two
boys, one bigger than the other, whom he intended to send to land
yesterday...
... he did not know that the galleys were not here ... (p, 29) ...
the pilots are English except one. He does not know whether he is
English or Castillian . . . His ships carry forty-two men and he does
not know how many are on board of the others. ... no other ships
had left for Indies when he set out*. .2
... one of his vessels capsized two leagues from land and the other
is now with the other ships. They have probably made off, fearing
the galleys.
Asked how they captured the frigate ... he said that they chased
her and she drove aground. They sent off their boat with five or six
seamen (p. 31) ... He does not know what they carried off in two
trips they made to the frigate. One of the men named------3 who
was in the boat is among the prisoners and can say what they took.
. . . this is the truth on the oath he took and he signed it. Robert
Frost.4...
In the city of Cartagena on the twenty-fourth day of the month
of June in the year one thousand five hundred and ninety two, the
said governor caused to be brought before him one of the said
1 This vessel was abandoned at sea ofFBaru.
2 He describes a fleet making ready to sail when he left England (Raleigh).
3 .. ..rengila... * ... roberto crosa ,..