Note XXIII‑16 — Chapter XXIII · DRAKE AND OXENHAM'S EXPEDITIONS. 1572-1596.
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Lopez Vaz, in Hakluyt, Voy., iii. 770, states that five or seven merchants were slain, and that the town was set on fire, property being destroyed to the value of more than 200,000 ducats. If this did occur it was doubtless the work of the cimarrones, but there is no mention of it in other authorities.