Then we weighed again, and set sail, rowing hard aboard the shore, with
as much silence as we could, till we recovered the point of the harbour
under the high land. There, we stayed, all silent; purposing to attempt
the town in the dawning of the day: after that we had reposed ourselves,
for a while.
But our captain with some other of his best men, finding that our people
were talking of the greatness of the town, and what their strength might
be; especially by the report of the Negroes that we took at the Isle
of Pinos: thought it best to put these conceits out of their heads, and
therefore to take the opportunity of the rising of the moon that night,
persuading them that "it was the day dawning." By this occasion we were
at the town a large hour sooner than first was purposed. For we arrived
there by three of the clock after midnight. At that time it fortuned
that a ship of Spain, of 60 tons, laden with Canary wines and other
commodities, which had but lately come into the bay; and had not
yet furled her spirit-sail (espying our four pinnaces, being an
extraordinary number, and those rowing with many oars) sent away her
gundeloe [? gondola] towards the town, to give warning.
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