True, Detailed, and Thorough Report

3 degrees 14 minutes south. Approximately one mile southeast of the city is the castle called Saint Anthony, upon which are 4 brass pieces of artillery. Likewise, on the southwest side of the city, it is protected at the corner with a castle or bulwark called Saint Philip, upon which are found 3 brass pieces. Further south lies the large castle or fortress called Tape Sippo. The city itself is called Saint Salvador San Salvador by the Portuguese. It lies on the north side of the harbor in a stretch of land original: "Tracku" on a high mountain. The warehouses for the merchants' goods are built firmly against the same. It is also fortified toward the sea with a stone breastwork. It is a half-hour walk from the seaport up into the city. Between the city and the sea, there is undergrowth and thorny bushes grown so thickly together that one can only come up to the city through two crooked passes. The city itself is magnificent and well-built, and there are about 1,400 houses in it, as well as various monasteries, such as a Jesuit, a Capuchin, a Carmelite, and a Benedictine order. There are also two parish churches, the largest of which is not yet finished. The city has only 2 gates: one toward the west and the other through the east, through which our men entered the city.

Concerning now the skirmish, our men sailed into the harbor on the aforementioned day toward the southeast. As they came around the point, fire was opened upon them from the city and the surrounding castles, as well as from a battery which had recently been raised out of the water from white hard stones upon several rock reefs and provided with 8 brass and 2 iron pieces. From all sides, they began to shoot heavily at our men. Admiral Wilckens and the other ships did the same. Dietrich, Petrus Colber, and Dietrich the Rider, who were at those places because they...