The Famous Voyage Of Sir Francis Drake Into The South Sea, And Therehence About The Whole Globe Of The Earth, Begun In The Year Of Our Lord 1577 Narrative By Francis Pretty
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But They Were Espied By The Spaniards, Who Came With 300
Horsemen And 200 Footmen, And Slew One Of Our Men With A Piece.
The
rest came aboard in safety, and the Spaniards departed.
We went on
shore again and buried our man, and the Spaniards came down again with
a flag of truce; but we set sail, and would not trust them. From hence
we went to a certain port called Tarapaca; where, being landed, we
found by the sea side a Spaniard lying asleep, who had lying by him
thirteen bars of silver, which weighed 4,000 ducats Spanish. We took
the silver and left the man. Not far from hence, going on land for
fresh water, we met with a Spaniard and an Indian boy driving eight
llamas or sheep of Peru, which are as big as asses; every of which
sheep had on his back two bags of leather, each bag containing 50 lb.
weight of fine silver. So that, bringing both the sheep and their
burthen to the ships, we found in all the bags eight hundred weight of
silver.
Herehence we sailed to a place called Arica; and, being entered the
port, we found there three small barks, which we rifled, and found in
one of them fifty-seven wedges of silver, each of them weighing about
20 lb. weight, and every of these wedges were of the fashion and
bigness of a brickbat. In all these three barks, we found not one
person.
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