Puerto Rico and its resources . e crews. Drake did not return to San Juan, but con-tented himself with levying tribute or burningtowns on the Caribbean side of the island. Hisfleet then sailed for Nombre de Dios, and on the28th of January, 1596, while the fleet was offPorto Bello, Drake breathed his last, and wasburied at sea in a leaden coffin. He was succeededin command by Sir Thomas Baskerville, who,while returning to England, fell in with a Spanishfleet off the Isle of Pines, and gave it battle. TheEnglish had the best of it, but the Spanish admiral(after the Spanish fashion) subsequently
Puerto Rico and its resources . e crews. Drake did not return to San Juan, but con-tented himself with levying tribute or burningtowns on the Caribbean side of the island. Hisfleet then sailed for Nombre de Dios, and on the28th of January, 1596, while the fleet was offPorto Bello, Drake breathed his last, and wasburied at sea in a leaden coffin. He was succeededin command by Sir Thomas Baskerville, who,while returning to England, fell in with a Spanishfleet off the Isle of Pines, and gave it battle. TheEnglish had the best of it, but the Spanish admiral(after the Spanish fashion) subsequently issued abulletin, claiming a glorious victory. Baskervillewas so incensed that on his return home he postedthe Spanish admiral as a liar and challenged himto a duel, but nothing ever came of it. In 1698 another English squadron, of twenty-two ships, attacked San Juan, but was almost en-tirely destroyed by the elements, a furious hurri-cane sinking many vessels and delivering theircrews into the hands of their enemies. In 1702 a. A CHAPTER OF HISTORY. 219 Dutch squadron, and also an English, were drivenoff from San Juan, but a Puerto Eican fleet, fittedout to attack the British, was totally destroyed bya hurricane; so that the islanders were now con-vinced that the previous and similar disaster to theforeigners was not altogether a visitation of Provi-dence, as they had at first regarded it. The seventeenth century was one of troubleand disaster to the Spaniards in the West Indies,particularly in Puerto Kico, for the French andEnglish buccaneers were then flourishing. Di-vided into two bands, these pirates committed ter-rible depredations under the name of bucanerosand filibusteros, their headquarters being first inthe island of St. Kitts, whence they were dislodgedby Don Federico Toledo, who dropped upon themwith an expedition from San Juan de Puerto Kicoin 1629-30, and finally in the island of Tortuga,off the coast of Haiti. The eighteenth century was peaceful, in themain, but
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