Anquan was peacetime, and our captain, D. Miguel de Zapiain, seemed to have no suspicion damn, I who am an old hand at sea, I called Deborah and I told him the time I smelled gunpowder … Good: When the English frigates were near, he ordered General zafarrancho; Fame was ahead, and soon we found a pistol shot of the English to windward.

Then the captain spoke English with his horn and told us … You look as I liked the openness! … told us we put aback because we were going to attack. Asked a thousand questions, but we said no we felt like answering. To all this, the other three frigates enemy had come to ours, so that each had a Spanish English to the lee side.

His position could not be better, ’said my master.

‘That says I continued Marcial. The chief of our squadron, D. José Bustamante, walked some clever that if I had been … Well, sir, the idler (meaning the Commodore) English sent on board the Medea one of these grand oficialillo pollock, which, without beating around in tiny, Anquan said it was not declared war, the idler was ordered to catch us. This really is called to be English. The fight began after a while, our frigate was the first salvo to port, was told to salute and cannon goes, is shot … the truth of the matter is not got into a fist at those heretics for the sake of the devil came and set fire to the Santa Barbara of the Mercedes, which blew in a breath, and all with this event, we grieve so feeling so timid …!, not for lack of courage, but by what they say … the moral … well … denque the same time we were lost. Our frigate sails had more holes than old coat, the broken ends, five feet of water in storage, the mizzen tended, three shots over water and several dead and wounded.