ABSTRACT
Next day after dinner, which was June 22 of the current year, we sighted two ships and a pinnace and followed them until we overtook them and immediately recognized that they were English, our friends. We spoke each other and they asked us what news there was of the coast and we told them that we had driven a frigate ashore and that we were not certain what cargo she carried but, if they desired, we would all go back together to where we had left her, and that we would lead the way because of the shoals. And so we all five sails steered for the land. One of our ships which was ahead struck on a (p. 13) rock and sank in half an hour. All those on board escaped by swimming. Nevertheless the remaining four ships came on and anchored near the frigate. This was about three in the afternoon.
