on pieces of the wreck, and crying out for mercy; which was shewn by the Dutch to some of the chiefs, but the rest were left to the mercy of the sea, several of them being even knocked on the head by the Dutch, contrary to orders from their officers.  Before this ship went down her commander expired of his wounds.  In this engagement forty Dutchmen were wounded and sixteen slain, on board the admiral, vice-admiral, and Eolus; and in the rest eighteen were wounded and four slain.

[Footnote 96:  There is no such name in the list of the Spanish fleet, so that we may suppose this to have been the one formerly mentioned without a name.—­E.]

The Dutch now made sail for Calao de Lima, but were becalmed.  The 20th they passed by the island [St Lorenzo], and saw fourteen ships in the haven, but could not get near for shoals.  They went, therefore, to the road of Calao in search of the Spanish admiral, but learned afterwards at Payta that his ship had sunk.  The Spaniards fired upon them from the shore, and a ball of thirty-six pounds weight had nearly sunk the Huntsman.  They saw also on shore a considerable army, commanded by the viceroy in person, consisting of eight troops of horse and 4000 foot.  Going beyond reach of shot from the shore, the Dutch cast anchor off the mouth of the haven, where they remained till the 25th of July, expecting to capture some Spanish ships, but all that appeared made their escape by superior sailing, except one bark laden with salt and eighty jars of molasses.

In regard that they were now on an enemy’s coast, where they had no opportunity of repairing their losses, orders were issued by Spilbergen to act with great caution, in case of falling in with the fleet of Panama, and especially to take care not to separate from each other, which had much endangered them in the late fight.  It was also ordered, if any Spanish ship should yield, that the Dutch captains and chief officers should on no account leave their own ships, but should order the enemy to come aboard them in their own boats.  They sailed from Calao on the 27th of July, and came to the road of Huarmey in lat. 10 deg.  S. on the 28th.  This is a pleasant place, with a large port, near which is a lake.  The Dutch landed here, but the inhabitants fled, leaving little plunder, except poultry, hogs, oranges, and meal, which they brought on board.  They dismissed some of their Spanish prisoners on the 3d August, on which day they passed between the main and the island of Lobos, so called from being frequented by seals, or sea wolves.[97] The 8th they cast anchor near Payta, in about the latitude of 5 deg.  S. The 9th they landed 300 men, but re-embarked after some skirmishing, as they found the city too strongly defended.  On this occasion they took a Peruvian bark, strangely rigged, having six stout natives on board, who had been out fishing for two months, and had a cargo of excellent dried fish, which was distributed through the fleet.