English explorer and privateer Sir Francis Drake, who was Hawkins' second cousin, was part of the crew and also likely a relative of Lovell's.
[3] Lovell tried to sell the enslaved people at Rio de la Hacha (now known as Riohacha); however, the local governor, Castellanos, refused to allow the trade.
Two years later Hawkins returned to Rio de la Hacha on his next slave voyage and asked the same governor for compensation.
[2] Lovell was a Protestant, and, in 1574, a Welshman called Michael Morgan, who had been on the trip, confessed while being tortured on the rack that he had been converted to Protestantism by Drake.
"[2] Lovell was intolerant of other religious views and was recorded at Tenerife as saying "he had made a vow to God that he would come to these islands, burn the image of Our Lady in Candelaria, and roast a young goat in the coals.