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Upon Wednesday the 26th of May 1585, while the ship Primrose of 150 tons was riding at anchor off the bay of Bilboa, where she had been two days, there came on board a Spanish pinnace, in which were the corregidore and six others, who seemed to be merchants, bringing cherries with, them, and spoke in a very friendly manner to the master of the ship, whose name was Foster.

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One of these was the corregidore himself, who was governor over an hundred cities and towns, his appointments exceeding six hundred pounds

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The other towns in the province are governed by lieutenants, or deputies, appointed by the corregidore.

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On being questioned by Mr Foster as to their reason for endeavouring thus to betray him and his men, the corregidore assured him it was not done of their own accord, but by the command of the king of

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To this the corregidore replied, _My horse is ready_.

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Upon our first coming here, they had dispatched a messenger to the Spanish corregidore at Castro, a town a considerable distance from hence, to inform him of our arrival.

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When we got to the college, the corregidore desired the father provincial, as they stiled him, or head of the Jesuits here, to find out what religion we were of, or whether we had any or not.

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Ocampo was afterwards rewarded for his distinguished services by being appointed to the office of corregidore of the cities of Serena Mendoza and St Juan, the two last in the province of Cujo; in which province he had likewise the grant of a considerable commandery of Indians, which he afterwards ceded to the crown.

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After supper, the corregidore carried us to the Jesuits college, attended by the soldiers and all the rabble of the town.

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Guayaquill, he enquired our numbers, which the captain magnified, on which the corregidore said we were boys, not men.

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