bay,
ringing bells and beating drums, as is their custom.

Fourth. The aforesaid captain Joan de Alcega, admiral of the fleet, did
not obey the orders and instructions which on the day before the battle
I gave to him in writing, signed with my name, according to which
both ships, flagship and admiral's ship, were to board and fight with
the enemy's flagship, because it was a strong vessel. Nevertheless,
though he had seen me board, he passed by without having an order
from me to do so, and still less having any order to follow and to
fight with the opposing admiral's ship, and thus abandon me. If he
had done as he was under obligation to do, the flagship would have
been made to surrender completely without the loss of one of our
men; and we could have captured for his Majesty a beautiful ship
and twenty-six pieces of artillery, and many other things of price
and value for all, and my flagship would not have been lost, and the
people of worth who died in it would not have perished. After that,
it would have been a sure and easy thing to capture the admiral's
ship, which was a small boat, of no strength. Your Lordship should
send promptly to the admiral to write the instructions which I gave
him originally in Mariveles on the thirteenth of December by the hand
of the captain Joan Tello y Aguirre, who came for them--signed with
my name, without any erasures or changes whatever--because through
them the above matter will be verified, without any fraud or deceit.

Fifth. After my flagship had foundered, the enemy in his, as broken
as it was, took to flight with only the foresail up, and passed
within sight of the admiral's ship of my convoy, and although the
admiral was aware of my loss, and that that was the enemy's ship,
and made sail after her, he did not try to follow her; and so he let
her go, although he could easily have overtaken her, as she bore only
the foresail, and could have captured her, as she was so broken and
without men. Most of us who were on the island of Fortun saw this
from there; and the captive Flamenco admiral will say the same thing,
as well as those who came in our admiral's ship and remained in it.

_Item_: Although our admiral's ship ought to have come in search of its
flagship, which it saw sinking in the sea from its companion ship--or
at least in aid of its men who had escaped to the island of Fortun,
which was near, in order to rescue us from that island, uninhabited
and without water, wh