THE EARL OF CUMBERLAND ad. 



1589. 



about the ghils (appearing oft times above the water) 

 were by estimation 4 or 5 yards asunder, and his jawes 

 gaping a yard and an halfe wide, which put us in feare of 

 overturning the pinnasse, but God bee thanked (rowing 

 as hard as we could) we escaped. . 



When we were about Flores a litle ship called the 

 Drake, brought us word that the Caraks were at Tercera, 

 of which newes we were very glad, & sped us thitherward 

 with all the speed we could : and by the way we came 

 to Fayal road the seven and twentieth day of August, [II. ii. 157.] 

 after sunne set, where we espied certaine shippes ryding 

 at anker, to whom we sent in our Skiffe with Captaine 

 Lister and Captaine Monson in her to discover the 

 roaders : and least any daunger should happen to our 

 boate, we sent in likewise the Sawsie Jacke and the small 

 Caravell ; but the wind being off the shoare, the shippes 

 were not able to fet it so nigh as the Spaniards ride, which 

 neverthelesse the boate did, and clapped a shippe aboord 

 of two hundred and fiftie tunnes, which caried in her 

 fourteene cast peeces, and continued fight alone with 

 her for the space of one houre untill the comming up 

 of other boates to the reskue of her, which were sent 

 from the shippes, and then a fresh boording her againe 

 one boate in the quarter, another in the hause, wee entred 

 her on the one side, and all the Spaniards lept overboord 

 on the other, save Juan de Palma the Captaine of her 

 and two or three more, and thus we became possessors 

 of her. This shippe was mored to the Castle which shot 

 at us all this while : the onely hurt which we received of 

 all this shot was this, that the master of our Caravell 

 had the calfe of his legge shot away. This shippe was 

 laden with Sugar, Ginger, and hides lately come from 

 S. Juan de Puerto Rico ; after we had towed her cleare 

 off the castle, we rowed in againe with our boats, and 

 fetched out five small ships more, one laden with hides, 

 another with Elephants teeth, graines, coco-nuts, and 

 goates skins come from Guinie, another with woad, and 

 two with dogge-fish, which two last we let drive in the 



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