Invoking our Lady of the most pure Conception, whom they had taken as patroness of that undertaking on their departure, they attacked the enemy.

The Dutch were confident, when they were aware of the dash of the Spaniards, that our men would board their ships when they grappled.

Accordingly they prepared for it by so many stratagems that all who boarded would be killed; but Don Juan Ronquillo, taking precautions against that, issued an order for no one to board until the galleon with which he was fighting had surrendered.

That order was obeyed; and our flagship grappled its adversary, and although almost all the latter's crew were killed it refused to surrender.

Finally it was reduced to such a condition that it began to roll violently, a sign that it was sinking, whereupon our flagship drew apart from it, and it went to the bottom.