her places (PEZORO
purposing to remove himself to the South Sea!): but there was nothing
done to prevent him, their fear being so great, that, as it is
accustomed in such cases, it excluded counsel and bred despair.

Our Captain, conferring with his own knowledge and former intelligences,
was purposed to have returned to his ship, to have taken some of those
Cimaroons which had dwelt with Signior PEZORO, to be the more confirmed
in this point.

But when the Genoese Pilot was very earnest, to have the time gained,
and warranted our Captain of good speed, if we delayed not; he dismissed
the frigate, somewhat lighter to hasten her journey! And with this
Pilot's advice, laboured with sail and oars to get this harbour and to
enter it by night accordingly: considering that this frigate might now
be gained, and PEZORO'S house attempted hereafter notwithstanding.

But when we were come to the mouth of the harbour, we heard the report
of two Chambers, and farther off about a league within the bay, two
other as it were answering them: whereby the Genoese Pilot conjectured
that we were discovered: for he assured us, that this order had been
taken since his last being there, by reason of the advertisement and
charge, which the Governor of Panama had sent to all the Coasts; which
even in their beds lay in great and continual fear of our Captain,
and therefore by all likelihood, maintained this kind of watch, at the
charge of the rich Gnuffe PEZORO for their security.

Thus being defeated of this expectation, we found it was not GOD'S will
that we should enter at that time: the rather for that the wind, which
had all this time been Easterly, came up to the Westward, and invited us
to return again to our ship; where, on Sheere Thursday (19th March), we
met, according to appointment, with our _Bear_, and found that she had
bestowed her time to more profit than we had done.

For she had taken a frigate in which there were ten men (whom they set
ashore) great store of maize, twenty-eight fat hogs, and two hundred
hens. Our Captain discharged (20th March) this frigate of her lading;
and because she was new, strong, and of a good mould, the next day
(21st March) he tallowed her to make her a Man-of-war; disposing all our
ordnance and provisions that were fit for such use, in her. For we had
heard by the Spaniards last taken, that there were two little galleys
built in Nombre de Dios, to waft the Chagres Fleet to and fro, but were
not