the enemy’s ship cried out:  “Victory! victory! for the king of Espana!  Pass on ahead!  Do not fire and kill us, for the ship has surrendered already.”  However, the admiral, Joan de Alezega, caused two pieces to be fired and a discharge of his musketry and arquebuses upon the enemy.  It is understood that with one piece of this broadside, he did the enemy considerable injury, as was proved.  As soon as the admiral understood that our men were advising him to pass on, and that the enemy’s almiranta was fleeing under a press of canvas, he bore away in pursuit of it.

The enemy’s flagship, seeing that our almiranta had departed, began to serve their artillery more rapidly, and their musketry from the bow, so that they inflicted considerable loss upon those of our men who boarded their ship with only shields on their arms, and their swords.  In this way they would have defeated the enemy if they had attacked with fifty men in a body.  Instead of taking such good counsel, they boarded in parties of threes, while the enemy continued to wound and kill them.  Even this lack of system and concord did not stop here, but it is understood that the enemy pierced our flagship with a ball at the water-line.  Our men, flushed with the exultation of the victory they had won at first, and confused by much shouting, did not hasten to repair the damage; for they were people who did not like to be ordered, and their general could do nothing with them, as they were all captains and men of distinction.  On account of this, and as the ship was so occupied by the sailors’ berths, they could not, or did not, notice the shot which our ship received.  When they did perceive it by the rising of the water to the second deck, they all became frightened; and, instead of boarding the enemy’s ship, with the thought that if they were losing a ship, they were gaining one, they began to devise means of escape.  Accordingly some leaped into the enemy’s small boat without orders from the general, whereby a few escaped, while others had recourse to our own small boat.  Thus eight or ten of them contrived to escape, without waiting for anything else.  A little before this, they addressed the general, Antonio de Morga, saying:  “Escape, your Grace, for the ship is sinking.”  He answered that it was not suitable to his reputation to leave his ship and not die with all the others, from which answer it was understood that, in case the ship went down, he was confident of his own strength and dexterity.  The rest of our men—­it may be seen what sort of men they were—­seeing that the vessel was settling little by little, and that the enemy did not cease to serve their guns, huddled together in fright as they saw their ship filling with water—­a state of affairs which would make others undertake not only the exploit of boarding the ship and mastering it, but even more difficult enterprises.  In short, by the just judgments of God, which our sinful countrymen so well deserved, He disturbed their minds and deserted them,