bowls, which belonged to her pilot.  On seeing these, the admiral said to the pilot, that these were fine bowls, and he must needs have one of them; to which the pilot yielded, not knowing how to help himself; but, to make this appear less like compulsion, he gave the other to the admiral’s steward.  The place where this rich prize was taken was off Cape San Francisco, about 150 leagues from Panama, and in lat. 1 deg.  N. [00 deg. 45’.] When the people of the prize were allowed to depart, the pilot’s boy told the admiral, that the English ship ought now to be called the Cacafuego, not theirs, as it had got all their rich loading, and that their unfortunate ship ought now to be called the Cacaplata, which jest excited much mirth.[29]

[Footnote 28:  Without calculating on the jewels, for which there are no data, the silver and gold of this prize could hardly fall short of 250,000_l_—­worth more than a million, in effective value, of the present day.—­E.]

[Footnote 29:  This forecastle joke turns on the meaning of the words, Cacafuego and Cacaplata, meaning Fartfire and Fartsilver.—­Harris.]

Having ransacked the Cacafuego of every thing worth taking, she was allowed to depart; and continuing their course westwards, they next met a ship laden with cotton goods, China dishes, and China silks.  Taking from the Spanish owner a falcon of massy gold, having a large emerald set in his breast, and chasing such other wares as he liked, the admiral allowed this ship to continue her voyage, only detaining her pilot for his own use.  This pilot brought them to the harbour of Guatalca, in the town adjacent to which, he said, there were only seventeen Spaniards.  Going there on shore, they marched directly to the town-house, where they found a judge sitting, and ready to pass sentence on a parcel of negroes, who were accused of plotting to set the town on fire.  But the arrival of the admiral changed affairs, for he made both the judge and the criminals prisoners, and carried them all aboard the ships.  He then made the judge write to the citizens, to keep at a distance, and make no resistance; after which the town was plundered, but the only thing valuable was about a bushel of Spanish dollars, or rials of plate.  One of the people took a rich Spaniard fleeing out of town, who ransomed himself by giving up a gold chain and some jewels.  At this place the admiral set some of his Spanish prisoners ashore, together with the old Portuguese pilot he took at the Cape Verd islands, and departed from thence for the island of Cano.  While there, he captured a Spanish ship bound for the Philippine islands, which he lightened of part of her merchandise, and allowed her to proceed.  At this place the admiral landed every thing out of his own ship, and then laid her on shore, where she was repaired and graved; after which they laid in a supply of wood and water.