The rest of the people occupied the Morro and the esplanade, under the command of Captain Marco Antonio de Veçerra and the governor, who led the cavalry; each of them to advance with his party to whatever point seemed to require his presence, or to stand in need of succour. ARTILLERY PLANTED. On the Morro [rock battery], twenty-seven very good brass guns 27 On the platform of the other Morro, five pieces 5 In St. Helena, four pieces 4 In the curtain of the Friars, close to the fortress, three pieces 3 In the curtain of St. Catharine, five pieces 5 In the Tejar [tile field], nine pieces 9 At the mouth of the river, two pieces 2 On the bridge and in a ship which was placed there, six pieces 6 On the Boqueron, four pieces 4 On the Cabron curtain, two pieces 2 On the curtain of the Morillo, three pieces 3 --- 70 Besides the frigates well armed, without which there were the aforesaid seventy pieces of cannon planted with good gunners at each post, and for chief commander of the forts of the Morro and the Morillo de Sta. Helena, the Admiral, Gonçalo Mendez de Canço. On the 15th of the same month intelligence arrived from the governor of Canary, despatched to the governor of this island, to make it known that the enemy’s fleet had passed by the former place, and having landed some people for the purpose of watering, they had been forced to retreat with the loss of five-and-twenty men, and had gone off towards the Indies; and the same messenger stated, that in passing by the island of St. Martin, he had seen the armada, of five-and-twenty sail, lying at anchor.