beaten out, and all the Ships put ashore, except the Admiral,
and Vice-Admiral, who made the most considerable resistance,
About two of the clock the Vice-Admiral was set on fire, and
the Admiral, by some happy shot, or other accident, suddenly
blown up; having (as we perceived just before) many men on
board her; by the evening all the rest were fired, onely two
that sunk down to rights, and had little but their Masts appearing
above water.
It remained to compleat this Mercy, that our own Ships
should come off well, wherein the greatest hazard and difficulty
lay; for some riding near into the shore and being orely
maimed, did require to be warped off, others when we came
to weigh drove with the winde all the whole blowing right into
the hay, and one of our best Frigat; strook: The enemy in
the mean time supplied fresh men into his Forts for those we
had killed and beaten out in the heat of the Action, and from
them and the Castle continued plying upon us, till about, seven
of the Clock at night, every Ship and Vessol belonging to our
Fleet, were by the good hand of God, got sage out of Command.
In this service we had not above fifty [unr]in outright, and
one hundred and twenty wounded, an the damage to our
Ships was such as in two daies time we indifferently well repaired
for present security: Which we ha no sooner done,
but the de veered to the South west which is rare among
those Islands, and lasted just toing us to our former Station
neer Cope Maries, where we arrived the second of May following:
For which [unr] appearance all along with us,
we desire the Lord May have the praise and glory to whom
[unr] it is due, And that all that hear of it may turn and say
(as of a truth we have found) that among the gods there is
none like unto him, neither are there any works like unto his
works.
The names of the Commanders of the New Spain Fleet,
a[unr]f toe other Ships that were bu[unr]t the [unr]
Roa on the 20 of Ap, 1657.
Don Diega D[unr]agues, General.