environed both the pinnaces with bonnets, as for a close fight, and then
wheaved [waved] them aboard him.

They kept themselves upon their oars at caliver-shot distance, spending
powder apace; as we did some two or three hours. We had only one of our
men wounded in that fight. What they had is unknown to us, but we saw
their pinnaces shot through in divers places, and the powder of one of
them took fire; whereupon we weighed, intending to bear room to overrun
them: which they perceiving, and thinking that we would have boarded
them, rowed away amain to the defence they had in the wood, the rather
because they were disappointed of their help that they expected from the
frigate; which was warping towards us, but by reason of the much wind
that blew, could not come to offend us or succour them.

Thus seeing that we were still molested, and no hope remained of any
purchase to be had in this place any longer; because we were now so
notably made known in those parts, and because our victuals grew scant:
as soon as the weather waxed somewhat better (the wind continuing always
westerly, so that we could not return to our ships) our Captain
thought best to go (3rd November) to the Eastward, towards _Rio Grande_
[Magdalena] long the coast, where we had been before, and found great
store of victuals.

But when after two days' sailing, we were arrived (5th November) at
the villages of store, where before we had furnished ourselves with
abundance of hens, sheep, calves, hogs, etc.; now we found bare nothing,
not so much as any people left: for that they, by the Spaniards'
commandments, had fled to the mountains, and had driven away all their
cattle, that we might not be relieved by them. Herewith being very
sorry, because much of our victuals in our pinnaces was spoilt by the