A PARTICULAR NOTE OF THE INDIAN FLEET, EXPECTED TO HAVE COME INTO SPAIN THIS PRESENT YEAR OF 1591, WITH THE NUMBER OF SHIPS THAT PERISHED OF THE SAME; ACCORDING TO THE EXAMINATION OF CERTAIN SPANIARDS, LATELY TAKEN AND BROUGHT INTO ENGLAND BY THE SHIPS OF LONDON
The fleet of Nova Hispania, at their first gathering together and setting forth, were 52 sails. The Admiral was of 600 tons, and the Vice-Admiral of the same burden. Four or five of the ships were of 900 and 1000 tons a piece, some 500 and 400, and the least of 200 tons. Of this fleet 19 were cast away, and in them 2600 men by estimation, which was done along the coast of Nova Hispania, so that of the same fleet, there came to the Havana, but three and thirty sails.
The fleet of Terra Firma, were at their first departure from Spain, 50 sails, which were bound for Nombre de Dios, where they did discharge their lading, and thence returned to Cartagena, for their healths sake, until the time the treasure was ready they should take in, at the said Nombre de Dios. But before this fleet departed, some were gone by one or two at a time, so that only 23 sails of this fleet arrived in the Havana.
| At the Havana there met | { 33 sails of Nova Hispania. |
| { 23 sails of Terra Firma. | |
| { 12 sails of San Domingo. | |
| { 9 sails of Hunduras. |