But before we had her free of the haven, they of the town had made means
to bring one of their culverins, which we had dismounted, so as they
made a shot at us, but hindered us not from carrying forth the prize to
the Isle of _Bastimentos_, or the Isle of Victuals: which is an island
that lieth without the bay to the westward, about a league off the town,
where we stayed the two next days, to cure our wounded men, and refresh
ourselves, in the goodly gardens which we there found abounding with
great store of all dainty roots and fruits; besides great plenty of
poultry and other fowls, no less strange then delicate.
Shortly upon our first arrival in this island, the Governor and the rest
of his Assistants in the town, as we afterwards understood, sent unto
our Captain, a proper gentleman, of mean stature, good complexion, and
a fair spoken, a principal soldier of the late sent garrison, to view in
what state we were. At his coming he protested "He came to us, of mere
good will, for that we had attempted so great and incredible a matter
with so few men: and that, at the first, they feared that we had been
French, at whose hands they knew they should find no mercy: but after
they perceived by our arrows, that we were Englishmen, their fears were
the less, for that they knew, that though we took the treasure of the
place, yet we would not use cruelty toward their persons.
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