of the best and richest merchants of Panama. On board of
this galleon were also the religious women, belonging to the nunnery of
the said city, who had embarked with them all the ornaments of their
church, consisting in great quantity of gold, plate, and other things of
great value....

"Notwithstanding the Pirates found in the ports of the islands of Tavoga
and Tavogilla several boats that were laden with many sorts of very good
merchandise; all which they took and brought unto Panama; where being
arrived, they made an exact relation of all that had passed while they
were abroad to Captain Morgan. The prisoners confirmed what the Pirates
had said, adding thereto, that they undoubtedly knew whereabouts the
said galleon might be at that present, but that it was very probable
they had been relieved before now from other places. These relations
stirred up Captain Morgan anew to send forth all the boats that were in
the port of Panama, with design to seek and pursue the said galleon till
they could find her. The boats aforesaid being in all four, set sail
from Panama, and having spent eight days in cruising to and fro, and
searching several ports and creeks, they lost all their hopes of finding
what they so earnestly sought for. Hereupon they resolved to return unto
the isles of Tavoga and Tavogilla. Here they found a reasonable good
ship, that was newly come from Payta, being laden with cloth, soap,
sugar and biscuit, with twenty thousand pieces of eight in ready money.
This vessel they instantly seized, not finding the least resistance from
any person within her. Nigh unto the said ship was also a boat whereof
in like manner they possessed themselves. Upon the boat they laded great
part of the merchandises they had found in the ship, together with some
slaves they had taken in the said islands. With this purchase they
returned to Panama, something better satisfied of their voyage, yet
withal much discontented they could not meet with the galleon....

"Captain Morgan used to send forth daily parties of two hundred men, to
make inroads into all the fields and country thereabouts, and when one
party came back, another consisting of two hundred more was ready to go
forth. By this means they gathered in a short time huge quantity of
riches, and no lesser number of prisoners. These being brought into the
city, were presently put unto the most exquisite tortures imaginable, to
make them confess both other people's goods and the