As Captain Townley Was Hard Pressed By
The Spaniards, He Was Forced To Make A Bold Run Through The
Before-Mentioned Narrow Channel, Between Pacheque And The Three Small
Islands; And Captain Harris Was Obliged To Separate From Us During The
Fight.
Thus our long-projected design vanished into smoke.
According to the report of some prisoners taken afterwards, the Spanish
fleet consisted of fourteen sail, besides periagoes, or large boats of
twelve or fourteen oars each, and among these there were eight ships of
good force, mounting from eight to forty-eight guns, with two
fire-ships, and computed to contain 3000 men. In the morning of the 30th
we saw the Spanish fleet at anchor, three leagues from us to leeward,
and by ten a.m. they were under sail with an easy gale from the S.
making the best of their way to Panama. In this affair we had but one
man slain, but never knew the loss sustained by the Spaniards. Captain
Gronet and his Frenchmen never joined us in this fight, laying the fault
upon his men, wherefore he was ordered in a consultation to leave us;
after which we resolved to sail for the islands of Quibo, or Cobaya, in
quest of Captain Harris.
We sailed on the 1st June, 1685, with the wind at S.S.W. passing between
Cape Carachina and Islas del Rey. The 10th we came in sight of Moro
de Puercos, a high round hill on the coast of Lavelia, in lat.
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