ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1589-91. 



advantage against us, (little knowing in what case and 

 feare we were, as also because wee were not farre from 

 Tercera) left us, which made us not a litle to rejoyce, 

 as thinking our selves to bee risen from death to life, 

 although wee were not well assured, neyther yet voyde 

 of feare till we lay in the road before Tercera, and under 

 the safetie of the Portingales fort, and that we might get 

 thither in good time wee made all the sailes we could : 

 on the other side we were in great doubt, because we 

 knew not what they did in the Island, nor whether they 

 were our friends or enemies, and we doubted so much 

 the more, because we found no men of warre nor any 

 Carvels of advise from Portingal, as wee made our 

 accounts to doe, that might convoy us from thence, or 

 give us advise, as in that countrey ordinarily they use 

 to do : and because the English men had bene so 

 victorious in those parts, it made us suspect that it went 

 not well with Spaine : they of the Island of Tercera were 

 in no lesse feare then we, for seeing our fleete, they 

 thought us to bee Englishmen, and that wee came to 

 overrun the Island, because the 3. Englishmen had bound 

 up their flags, and came in company with us : for the 

 which cause the Island sent out two Carvels that lay 

 there with advise from the king, for the Indians ships 

 that should come thither. Those Carvels came to view 

 us, and perceiving what we were, made after us, where- 

 upon the English ships left us, and made towardes them, 

 because the Carvels thought them to be friends, and 

 shunned them not, as supposing them to bee of our 

 company, but we shot foure or five times and made signes 

 unto them that they should make towards the Island, 

 which they presently did. The Englishmen perceiving 

 that, did put forwards into the sea, & so the Carvels 

 horded us telling us that the men of the Island were all in 

 armes, as having received advise from Portugall, that Sir 

 Francis Drake was in readinesse, and woulde come unto 

 those Islands. They likewise brought us newes of the 

 overthrow of the Spanish fleet before England, and that 



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