Bayona

Lycidas 162. (See also Guarded Mount, Namancos.) A seaport of southwestern Galicia, Spain. On a high hill is the fortre of Bayona, or Castle of Monte real. Bayona is south of Cape Finisterre, which interrupts direct vision from “the guarded Mount” to Bayona. However, Porthcurno, near the “Mount,” is the point of departure of a submarine cable to Vigo, a town on the same arm of the sea as Bayona. Bayona had been brought to the attention of English men by the expediAn account of the tions of Sir Francis Drake against Spain. expedition of 1589 runs as follows: “The reasons why we attempted nothing against Bayon were before shewed to be want of artillery, and may now be alleged to be the small number of our men, who should have gone against so strong a place, manned with very good souldiers, as was shewed by Juan de Vera taken at the Groine, who confe ed that there were sixe hundred olde Souldiers in there of Flanders, and garrison the Tercios of Naples, lately also returned out of the journey of England.... Also he sayth there be 18 pieces of bra e, and foure of yron lately layed upon the walls of the towne, besides them that were (Hak. 2. 2. 150.) The Isles of Bayona, not far there before.” from the fortre , are also frequently mentioned in narratives There was much English commerce of expeditions to Spain. with Bayona. 65