us there notable service, partly by occasion of this strange and sudden
closing with them in this manner unlooked for, and the rather for that
at the very instant, our Captain's brother, with the other company, with
their firepikes, entered the Market Place by the eastern street:
they casting down their weapons, fled all out of the town by the gate
aforesaid, which had been built for a bar to keep out of the town the
Cimaroons, who had often assailed it; but now served for a gap for the
Spaniards to fly at.

In following, and returning; divers of our men were hurt with the
weapons which the enemy had let fall as he fled; somewhat, for that we
marched with such speed, but more for that they lay so thick and cross
one on the other.

Being returned, we made our stand near the midst of the Market Place,
where a tree groweth hard by the Cross; whence our Captain sent some of
our men to stay the ringing of the alarm bell, which had continued all
this while: but the church being very strongly built and fast shut,
they could not without firing (which our Captain forbade) get into the
steeple where the bell rung.

In the meantime, our Captain having taken two or three Spaniards in
their flight, commanded them to shew him the Governor's House, where he
understood was the ordinary place of unlading the moiles [mules] of all
the treasure which came from Panama by the King's appointment. Although
the silver only was kept there; the gold, pearl, and jewels (being
there once entered by the King's officer) was carried from thence to the
King's Treasure House not far off, being a house very strongly built of
lime and alone, for the safe keeping thereof.