They arrived at Puna, in lat. 3 deg. 10’ S. on the 25th of May, when they found a ship of 250 tons at anchor in the harbour.  After sinking her, they went ashore.  The lord of this island, styled the Cacique of Puna, was an Indian by birth, but having married a Spanish woman, he became a Christian, and made all his subjects follow his example.  He had a sumptuous and well-contrived palace near the shore, with curious gardens adjoining, and fair prospects, both to the water and up the country.  All the inhabitants of this island were kept continually employed in fabricating cables, such abundance of which are made here by the Indian subjects of this cacique; that most of the ships navigating the South Sea are supplied from hence.  This island is nearly as large as the isle of Wight in England, being about forty English miles from S.W. to N.E. and sixteen in the opposite direction.  It enjoys a great share in the blessings of nature; for, although it has no mines of gold or silver, it affords every thing in abundance that is necessary to the comforts of life.  The pastures are excellent, and are well stored with horses, oxen, sheep, and goats, yielding abundance of milk; it has also plenty of poultry, turkeys, ducks of a large size, and pigeons.  The cacique has several orchards, yielding a great variety of fine fruits, as oranges, lemons, figs, pomegranates, pumpkins, melons, and many others; with a variety of odoriferous plants, as rosemary, thyme, and the like.  One of these gardens or orchards was planted with the bombast cotton tree, which grows in pods, in each of which there are seven or eight seeds.

The 29th of May, Candish went to an island near Puna, into which the cacique had conveyed all the valuable furniture of his palace, with other things of value.  These stores were all discovered, and plundered of every thing thought worth carrying on board the ships, and the rest destroyed.  The church also of Puna, which stood near the palace, was burnt down, and its five bells carried to the ships.  On the 2d June, the English were attacked by 100 Spaniards, who killed or took prisoners twelve of their men, losing forty-six of their own in the encounter.  Candish landed again that same day with seventy English, and had another battle with the Spaniards, who were joined by 200 Indians armed with bows and arrows.  The English were victorious, after which they made great havock of the fields and orchards, burnt four ships on the stocks, and left the town of 300 houses a heap of rubbish.  Besides this principal town, there were two others on the island of 200 houses each, so that Puna was the best settled island on all this coast.