ABSTRACT
There, from the captain and master of a lateen ship which came into that harbour from the Canaries with a cargo of wines while deponent was there, the name of which deponent does not recall, but knows that it had called at Santiago de Cuba and delayed there for fear of five French ships which for more than a month had been trading in the harbour of La Isabela, deponent heard that Captain don Diego de Noguera, commanding His Majesty's two galleys stationed at Santo Domingo, had been patrolling that island and at Cape San Nicolas had encountered an English ship of a hundred and fifty tons burden and had engaged and sunk it, at Cape San Nicolas; and that six or seven negro slaves had escaped from the ship and that the captain captured them and five or six English. The rest of those on board the ship made off in a pinnace they had, which pinnace went to the port of La Isabela to warn the other five ships there that the two galleys were making for that port, whereupon they left.
