ABSTRACT

In addition to the statement of the Englishman above reported, similar depositions were made by three other prisoners. They only differed in that they affirmed that the English who gave battle at the fort of San Pablo de la Victoria (as it is now called) numbered 900, with five brigades and five captains under a colonel. Two Spanish soldiers of those who withdrew from Nombre de Dios, whom the enemy caught up and captured on the road, say the same, and so do two Negroes who were taken prisoner in Nombre de Dios. All four came from them after their defeat and say the same as the three Englishmen : that they numbered 900 men in five brigades with five captains and a colonel, and that Francis Drake told them he would follow by way ofRfo de Chagre when he knew Panama was taken.