Senora, and the pieces mounted on the ground there,
and a low wall of rough stone which extended to the
mountain, where there was a bastion in which the wall
ended. It was called Cachiltulo, and was defended
with pieces of artillery and a number of culverins,
muskets, arquebuses, and pikes; while many other weapons
peculiar to the Terenatans were placed along the wall
for its defense. Having seen and reconnoitered
all this, although not with impunity, because the
enemy had killed six soldiers with the artillery and
wounded Alferez Joan de la Rambla in the knee with
a musket-ball, the Spaniards returned to the army.
A trifle past noon, a lofty site was reconnoitered,
in the direction of the bastion of Cachiltulo, whence
the enemy could be attacked and driven from the wall;
and Captain Cuevas was ordered to occupy it with twenty-five
musketeers. Having done this, the enemy sent out
a crowd of men to prevent him from occupying it.
A skirmish ensued, and the Moros turned and retreated
to their wall. Cuevas followed them so closely
and persisted so long, that he needed reenforcement.
The scouts in the trees gave information of what was
being done, whereupon Captains Don Rodrigo de Mendoca,
Alarcon, Cervantes, and Vergara reenforced him with
their light-armed pikemen and halberdiers. They
pursued the enemy with so great rapidity and resolution
that they entered the walls behind them. However,
some of the Spaniards were wounded, and Captain Cervantes
was pushed down from the wall and his legs broken,
which caused his death. Captain Don Rodrigo de
Mendoca, pursuing the enemy, who were retiring, ran
inside the wall as far as the cavalier of Nuestra
Senora, while Vergara ran in the opposite direction
along the curtain of the wall to the bastion of Cachiltulo,
and went on as far as the mountain. By this time
the main body of the army had already assaulted the
wall. Mutually aiding one another, they mounted
the wall and entered the place on all sides, although
with the loss of some dead and wounded soldiers.
The soldiers were stopped by a trench beyond the fort
of Nuestra Senora, for the enemy had retreated to
a shed, which was fortified with a considerable number
of musketeers and arquebusiers, and four light pieces.
They discharged their arquebuses and muskets at the
Spaniards, and threw cane spears hardened in fire,
and bacacaes, [27] after their fashion.
The Spaniards assaulted the shed, whereupon a Dutch
artilleryman trying to fire a large swivel-gun, with
which he would have done great damage, being confused
did not succeed, and threw down the linstock, turned,
and fled. The enemy did the same after him, and
abandoned the shed, fleeing in all directions.
Those who would do so embarked with the king and some
of his wives and the Dutch in one caracoa and four
juangas [28] which they had armed near the
king’s fort. Captain Vergara entered the
fort immediately, but found it deserted. Don Rodrigo
de Mendoca and Villagra pursued the enemy toward the