The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part IIIHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part III
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
From thence wee sayled to Cartagena,[18] where we went in, mored our
Shippes, and would haue traded with them, but they durst not for feare
of the King: wee brought vp the Minion against the Castle, and shotte at
the Castle and Towne: then we landed in an Iland, where were many
gardens: there in a caue we found certaine Botijos of wine, which wee
brought away with vs, in recompence whereof, our Generall commanded, to
be set on shore woollen and linnen cloth, to the value thereof. From
hence by foule weather wee were forced to seeke the Port of Saint John
de Vllua. In our way thwart of Campeche we met with a Spaniard, a small
ship, who was bound for Santo Domingo: he had in him a Spaniard called
Augustin de villa nueua, who was the man that betrayed all the Noble men
in the Indies, and caused them to be beheaded, wherefore he with two
Friers fled to S. Domingo: them we tooke and brought with vs into the
Port of S. Iohn de Vllua. Our Generall made great account of him, and
vsed him like a Noble man: howbeit in the ende he was one of them that
betrayed vs. When wee had mored our ships, and landed, we mounted the
Ordinance that wee found there in the Ilande, and for our safeties kept
watch and warde. [Sidenote: Don Martin de Henriquez the trecherous
Vice-roy.] The next daye after wee discouered the Spanish fleete,
whereof Luçon a Spanyard was Generall: with him came a Spanyard called
Don Martin Henriquez, whom the king of Spaine sent to be his Vice-roy of
the Indies. He sent a Pinnesse with a flagge of truce vnto our Generall,
to knowe of what Countrey those Shippes were that rode there in the King
of Spaines Port: who sayd they were the Queene of Englands ships, which
came in there for victuals for their money: wherefore if your Generall
will come in here, he shall giue me victuals and all other necessaries,
and I will goe out on the one side of the Port, and he shall come in on
the other side. The Spanyard returned for answere, that he was a
Vice-roy, and had a thousand men, and therefore he would come in. Our
Generall sayd, If he be a Vice-roy, I represent my Queenes person, and I
am a Vice-roy as well as he: and if he haue a thousand men, my powder
and shot will take the better place. Then the Vice-roy after counsell
among themselues, yeelded to our Generals demand, swearing by his King
and his Crowne, by his commission and authority that he had from his
King, that hee would performe it, and thereupon pledges were giuen on
both parts. Our Generall bearing a godly and Christian minde, voyde of
fraude and deceit, iudged the Spanyards to haue done the like, deliuered
to them sixe gentlemen, not doubting to haue receiued the like from
them: but the faithlesse Spanyardes, in costly apparell gaue of the
basest of their company, as afterwardes it was well knowen. These things
finished, proclamation was made on both sides, that on payne of death no
occasion should be giuen, whereby any quarrel should grow to the breach
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