This done, captain _Clipperton_ holds his course to the norward, soon arriving in the parallel of _Lima_: which being the chief scene of action, he stands off and on at a convenient distance, to prevent being descryed from the shore; where he had cruised but a small time, before he made himself master of several prizes: but necessity obliging him to send at least two officers, besides a sufficient number of his men on board each prize, it weaken’d him very much, so that he soon grasped more than he could hold. Add to this the low condition of his men, both by sickness and a reduction of their allowance that they were not overable to work the ship; besides the loss of thirty men, who dyed between the equator and this place. The misfortune of all this will best be seen in what follows: for in _November_ the _Success_ giving chase to a fresh sail a head, the last taken prize was run away with by the _Spaniards_, who by stratagem got the better of the few _English_ that were put aboard her in a hurry: while the enemy, with manifest risque of their own lives, ran their ship ashore among the rocks, and alarmd all the coast. --Here follow _Taylor_’s own words. _Success_, _November_ the 20th. “Fresh gales and fair weather. Yesterday at three in the afternoon we were surprized to see that when we made the signal to tack and stand off from the land, our last taken prize instead of observing the same, made sail for the shore as fast as she could, she being then the sternmost and nearest the shore, while we stand off, having another sail in view.” 21. “Little winds and fair weather. At three this afternoon finding the pink that yesterday stood in for the shore was run away with by the _Spaniards_, we begin to think it now full time to send all the _Spanish_ prisoners ashore, as well to save our provision, as to let the _Spaniards_ ashore have early notice of our good treatment towards those we had taken; that our men may be used after the same manner.” From this period, therefore, I date the breaking of our scheme, and the ruin of our voyage; of both which captain _Shelvocke_ was intirely the author. This I need not labour to prove, because it’s manifest if _Shelvocke_ had joyned _Clipperton_, and been here at his duty, the loss of this prize had not happened; or which is infinitely worse, the alarming of the _Spaniards_: upon whose security the greatest hope of our enterprize was founded.