ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1589. 

 A description This Fayal is the principall towne in all that island, 

 of the towne of fc j s situate directly over against the high and mighty 

 mountaine Pico, lying towards the West Northwest from 

 that mountaine, being devided therefrom by a narrow 

 Sea, which at that place is by estimation about some 

 two or three leagues in bredth betweene the Isles of 

 Fayal and Pico. 



The towne conteyned some three hundred housholds, 

 their houses were faire and strongly builded of lime 

 and stone, and double covered with hollow tyles much 

 like our roofe-tyles, but that they are lesse at the one 

 end then at the other. 



Every house almost had a cisterne or well in a garden 

 on the backe side: in which gardens grew vines (with 

 ripe clusters of grapes) making pleasant shadowes, and 

 Tabacco nowe commonly knowen and used in England, 

 wherewith their women there dye their faces reddish, to 

 make them seeme fresh and young: Pepper Indian and 

 common ; figge-trees bearing both white and red %ges : 

 Peach trees not growing very tall : Orenges, Limons, 

 Quinces, Potato-roots, &c. Sweete wood (Cedar I 

 thinke) is there very common, even for building and 

 firing. 



My Lord having possessed himselfe of the towne 

 and platforme, and being carefull of the preservation 

 of the towne, gave commandement, that no mariner or 

 souldier should enter into any house, to make any spoyle 

 thereof. But especially he was carefull that the Churches 

 and houses of religion there should be kept inviolate, 

 which was accordingly performed, through his appoint- 

 ment of guarders and keepers for those places : but 

 the rest of the towne eyther for want of the former 

 inhibition, or for desire of spoyle & prey, was rifled, 

 & ransacked by the souldiers & mariners, who scarcely 

 left any house unsearched, out of which they tooke 

 such things as liked them, as chestes of sweete wood, 

 chaires, cloth, coverlets, hangings, bedding, apparell : and 

 further ranged into the countrey, where some of them 



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