ired also; but as the Bushes prevented their seeing
the Men, they did but little Harm. The Enemy sent several large Boats
full of Men from their Ships into the Battery, which is pretty plain
they did not expect _Boccachica_ would have been attacked at that Time,
or consequently they would not have sent them there. (Wherefore it is
evident, this Scheme facilitated the Army's becoming Masters of
_Boccachica_, and put an End to the Dispute sooner than was expected,
or could possibly have happened, had any Nation but pusillanimous
_Spaniards_ had the Defence of it; for had the Place been defended
equal to its Strength and excellent Disposition, both of the Ships and
Batteries, it would have been a difficult Task for the Fleet and Army
both to have rendered themselves Masters of it.) But so soon as they
saw the Castle taken, they made the best of their Way off, in what
Boats they could get, and abandoned St. _Joseph_'s likewise, leaving
only one drunken Man behind (who was to have blown it up) so soon as
the Boats had got Possession. Captain _Coates_ was left to command this
Fort, and the Captains _Knowles_ and _Watson_ went aboard the
_Galicia_, where they found the Captain of her, and about sixty Men,
whom they took Prisoners, and carried aboard of the Admiral, the rest
of the Crew having run away with the Boats, and prevented their
escaping and sinking their Ship, as was intended.

[_T_] _Passa Cavallos_ is a Creek, that parts the grand _Baru_ from the
Main, through which the Supplies of Provisions that come from _Tolu_
and _Sina_ must pass; and here the Enemy had erected two small
Batteries, one of four Guns, the other of eight, which were demolished
by the _Weymouth_ and _Cruiser_. The latter was sent up the Creek, to
bring away five or six _Sina_ Hulks (Vessels so called, as being dug
out of one solid Tree, and big enough ordinarily to carry twenty Tuns)
that lay there, which were very useful to the Fleet in watering.

[_V_] Between _Castillo Grande_ and _Mancinilla_ Fort is a large
Channel, that goes up as it were into another Harbour or large Bason;
in the Middle of the Channel is a Shoal, that divides it into two
Channels; on each Side the Shoal the Enemy had moored Ships, and sunk
them; and in the Channel next the Castle had moored two sixty Gun
Ships, the _Conquestodore_ and _Dragon_, and untiled their Houses in
the Castle, as if intended to defend it; but observing the Boats
sounding, and well knowing how near t