These, however, attracted little attention from the English, although Ned and his young comrades marveled much.

Never had they seen, in England, anything approaching to the wealth and beauty of this furnishing.

It seemed to them, indeed, as if they had entered one of the houses of the magicians and enchanters, of whom they had read in books during their childhood.
Captain Drake, however, passed through these gorgeous rooms with scarce a glance and, led by the Spaniards, descended some steps into a vast cellar.
A cry of astonishment and admiration burst from the whole party, as they entered this treasury.

Here, piled up twelve feet high, lay a mighty mass of bars of silver, carefully packed.

This heap was no less than 70 feet long and 10 feet wide, and the bars each weighed from 35 to 40 pounds.
"My lads," Captain Drake said, "here is money enough to make us all rich for our lives; but we must leave it for the present, and make for the Treasury House, which is as full of gold and of precious stones as this is of silver." The men followed Captain Drake and his brother, feeling quite astonished, and almost stupefied at the sight of this pile of silver; but they felt, moreover, the impossibility of their carrying off so vast a weight, unless the town were completely in their hands.
This, indeed, was very far from being the case, for the whole town was now rising.