Taking This Ship Out To Sea About A League, They Hoisted All Her Sails And Let Her Drive, Doing The Like With The Ship They Took At Arica, And That Also They Had Taken At St Jago, Continuing Their Course With Their Own Ship And Pinnace.

When about seven leagues from Calao de Lima, they spied three ships, one of which they boarded, and took

Three men out of her, and then continued their course for Calao, which haven they entered about two or three hours after night-fall, sailing in among the middle of seventeen ships which lay there at anchor. Being among these ships, they enquired for the ship which had the silver on board; but learning that all the silver had been carried on shore, they cut the cables of all the ships and the masts of the two largest, and so left them. At this time, there arrived a ship from Panama, laden with Spanish wares and merchandise, which anchored close by the English ship, while the English captain was searching among the other ships for the silver. When the ship of Panama was anchored, a boat came off from the shore to examine her, but coming in the dark to the English ship, was told by one of the Spanish prisoners she was the ship of Michael Angelo from Chili; on which one of the Spaniards from the boat came up the side, but coming upon one of her cannon, he was afraid and they made off, as the ships in these seas carry no guns.

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