ABSTRACT

He said that he has been with Francis Drake, the English corsair, for twelve years, and that he fell into his power because the captain of three French ships captured him at La Margarita (of which island he is a native), from whom Francis Drake took him when he went to the Indies for the first time, in order that he might act as his interpreter with the Indians, for deponent knows English and Spanish and the language of the Indians of La Margarita, where he was born.