ight remedy it, it was
the same in this matter as the rest. Accordingly so much water was
entering the ship that it was in danger. A father of the Society of
Jesus, bearing a crucifix in his hand, told him that since the ship
was in danger he should go over with the men to that of the enemy;
since as they were so near together, and there was no resistance,
it would be like passing from one dwelling to another. He would
not do it, but on the contrary threw the mattresses with which he
had fortified the capstan into the water, in order to go to a small
islet which lay near and escape, as he did. The enemy rushed upon
all the troops, who threw themselves into the water, and the killed
and drowned amounted to more than one hundred and twenty Spaniards
of the most distinguished and important people of these islands,
without counting more than a hundred negroes and natives beside.

Such was the manner of the surrender of the said ship of the enemy
as soon as it was grappled. When the said captain, Joan de Alcega,
arrived with his almiranta on the other beam of the enemy, giving him
a volley of artillery and musketry, and when he finally undertook to
board the enemy's ship, the Spaniards who were on the inside under
its deck (among them being the adjutant of the sargento-mayor), told
them not to fire, or they would kill the Spaniards; and to go ahead
and follow the enemy's almiranta, which had taken to flight, as the
flagship was already in your Majesty's hands, and there was nothing to
do there. Accordingly the said admiral went after the other ship, and,
coming up with it three or four leagues away, caused its surrender and
brought the enemies who remained alive to this city, where justice was
meted to them. The ship, with very good artillery, lies in this port.

Besides the said loss, there was much artillery which the said Doctor
Morga was taking in the said ship, and supplies of war, as he had
taken what lay in the forts of this city, leaving them destitute of
supplies, and the royal storehouses almost without powder; for he
took six hundred barrels of it on the said flagship. Owing to the
lack of men--so great that hardly anyone appeared on the streets--and
that of the said artillery and arms of various kinds, this city was
in such danger of ruin as never before, if some of the many enemies
who surround it had attacked it with even a small force. Likewise the
opportunity for the capture of the said flagship of the enemy