Where was I ?" "Where was he, Amyas ?" "At the Isle of Pearls." "And yet, O gentles, tell me first, how Captain Drake came into the South Seas:--over the neck, as we did ?" "Through the Straits, good fellow, like any Spaniard: but go on with thy story, and thou shalt have Mr.Leigh's after." "Through the Straits! O glory! But I'll tell my tale.

Well, sirs both--To the Island of Pearls we came, we and some of the negroes.

We found many huts, and Indians fishing for pearls, and also a fair house, with porches; but no Spaniard therein, save one man; at which Mr.
Oxenham was like a man transported, and fell on that Spaniard, crying, 'Perro, where is your mistress?
Where is the bark from Lima ?' To which he boldly enough, 'What was his mistress to the Englishman ?' But Mr.O.
threatened to twine a cord round his head till his eyes burst out; and the Spaniard, being terrified, said that the ship from Lima was expected in a fortnight's time.

So for ten days we lay quiet, letting neither negro nor Spaniard leave the island, and took good store of pearls, feeding sumptuously on wild cattle and hogs until the tenth day, when there came by a small bark; her we took, and found her from Quito, and on board 60,000 pezos of gold and other store.

With which if we had been content, gentlemen, all had gone well.