[XXIX‑19] Bucaniers of Amer., ii.; Ringrose's Voy., 20-1. The last-named author gives the number of the crew as 137. Hacke, Col. Voy., ii. 10, and Sharp, Voyage, 12, say 130 men.
[XXIX‑20] See Burney's Discov. South Sea, iv. 98.
[XXIX‑21] Hacke's Col. Voy. Sharp reached Chepillo Island April 23d, but one authority states that the fleet and the bark parted company at this date.
[XXIX‑22] Bucaniers of Amer., ii.; Ringrose's Voy., 21-2. One man killed and five wounded according to Hacke's Col. Voy., ii. 10.
[XXIX‑23] According to Bucaniers of Amer., ii.; Ringrose's Voy., 22, all the prisoners escaped except one. But Sharp's statement that his men reported to him 'that there were dead People lying on the Ground, which made them conjecture our Men had had a Fight with the Spaniards,' Hacke's Col. Voy., ii. 12; Sharp's Voy., 12, disproves Ringrose's version, which glosses over this atrocity.
[XXIX‑24] The city of Panamá was usually garrisoned by 300 regular troops and 1,100 militia, but when the buccaneers arrived in the bay most of their soldiers were absent from the city, and the people were in the utmost consternation, having only some twelve hours' notice of the impending attack. The best of the soldiers remaining were placed on board the squadron, so it seems highly probable that if the pirates had landed instead of engaging the war-ships they might have gained possession of the place. Bucaniers of Amer., ii.; Ringrose's Voy., 28-9.
[XXIX‑25] Id., 25-6. Another account of this battle differs somewhat from the above: 'We boarded one of them, and carried her; so with her we took the second; and the third had certainly run the same fate, had not she scoured away in time.' Sharp's Voyage, 13-14.
[XXIX‑26] 'We had eleven Men Killed right out, and thirty-four more Wounded dangerously.' Id., 14. Sharp also gives the same numbers, Hacke's Col. Voy., ii. 12. Ringrose says their loss was 18 killed and 22 wounded, two of the latter dying afterward, one of whom was 'Captain Peter Harris, a brave and stout soldier ... born in the County of Kent.' Bucaniers of Amer., ii. 27. Burney says '18 were killed, and above 30 wounded,' Hist. Bucc., 99; as also United Service Jour., 1837, pt. ii. 316.
[XXIX‑27] The ships captured in the action were also burned later.
[XXIX‑28] The crew of this vessel had captured another bark, and dismantling the old one and putting their prisoners on board of her without masts or sails turned them adrift. Bucaniers of Amer., ii.: Ringrose's Voy., 30.