. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . reated; the thousand Englishmen divided in twoportions, assaulted the two city gates, carried them easily, andthen reunited in the market-place. Towards midnight theytried the gates of the castle; it was at once abandoned, andby degrees, street by street, the invaders got possession of halfthe town. The Spanish commissioners held the other half,and there were constant negotiations for ransom; but upondisagreement, says the English narrator, we still spent theearly mornings in firing the out
. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . reated; the thousand Englishmen divided in twoportions, assaulted the two city gates, carried them easily, andthen reunited in the market-place. Towards midnight theytried the gates of the castle; it was at once abandoned, andby degrees, street by street, the invaders got possession of halfthe town. The Spanish commissioners held the other half,and there were constant negotiations for ransom; but upondisagreement, says the English narrator, we still spent theearly mornings in firing the outmost houses; but they beingbuilt very magnificently of stone, with high lofts, gave us nosmall travail to ruin them. They kept two hundred sailorsbusy at this work of firing houses, while as many soldiersstood guard over them; and yet had not destroyed more thana third part of the town when they consented to accept 25,000ducats for the ransom of the rest. It is hard to distino^uish this from the career of a bucca-neer; but, after all, Drake was a mild - mannered gentleman. THE OLD ENGLISH SEAMEN. 99. DRAKES ATTACK ON SAN DOMINGO. and kept a chaplain. There are, to be sure, in the anonymous short abstract of this voyage in the handwriting of thetime, published by the Hakluyt Society, some ugly hints as lOO HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. to the private morals of the officers of Drakes ship, includingthe captain himself. And there is something very grotesquein the final fall from grace of the chaplain, Francis Fletcher,himself, as described in a memorandum among the HarleianMSS. This is the same chaplain who had the chalice andthe altar-cloth as his share of the plunder of a church atSantiago. Drake afterwards found him guilty of mutiny, andapparently felt himself free to pronounce both temporal andspiritual penalties, as given in the following narrative by aneye-witness: Drake excommunicated Fletcher shortly after. . He called all thecompany together, and then put a lock about one
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