Diego Perez to Lope de Vega Portocarrero, La Saona (?), December 18, 1592

I then went down the coast as far as Coro, which place our general wished us to take, and that night (it was June 10) our two ships dropped anchor. The others did not anchor. As we were about to let down the boat the weather turned so foul that we could do nothing against it and the three ships left me in such wise that I was alone.