at least two thousand pound every man. For all the Plate of the South Sea lay there as it were in store; being de∣posited at the said place, until such time as the ships did fetch it away. Being moved with these reasons, and ha∣ving deliberated thereupon, we resolved in the end to go unto the said place. At this Island of Gorgona afore-men∣tioned, we likewise took down our Round-house coach, and all the high carved work belonging to the stern of the ship. For when we took her from the Spaniards before Panama, she was high as any Third-Rate ship in England.CHAP. XI. The Bucaniers depart from the Isle of Gorgona, with design to plunder Arica. They loose one ano∣ther by the way. They touch at the Isle of Plate, or Drakes Isle, where they meet again. Des∣cription of this Isle. Some Memoirs of Sir Francis Drake. An account of this Voyage, and the Coasts all along. They sail as far in a fort-night, as the Spaniards usually do in three months. Gorgona.ON Sunday July the 25th, in the afternoon, all things being now in a readiness for our departure, we set sail, and stood away from the Island of Gorgona, or Sharps Ie, with a small breez which served us at N. W. But as the Sn went down that day, so our breez dyed away by degrees. Yet already we could begin to experiment, that our ship sailed much better, since the taking down her round house, and the other alterations which we made in .The next day about two of the clock in the morning, 0