27/31 For reasons known to its commander--and I think because he was mainly influenced by cowardly advisers--the ship was run aground and burned, so near the enemy that the latter flung at them innumerable insults. The largest galleon of the fleet, next to the flagship, was lost. It had thirty-six large pieces of artillery, most of which have been taken out of it. The commander was arrested, as well as his associates Captains Pedro de Ermura and Salvador de Onate. The most notable thing is that that galleon was lost on the very day of St.Mark, by whose intercession Don Juan de Silva had obtained the last victory. |