a-b: THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1589-91. 



victuals : but the inhabitants would not suffer him to 

 have it, but wounded both himselfe & divers of his men, 

 whereby they were forced to depart without having any 

 thing there. 



The Erie of Cumberland while I lay in Tercera, came 

 unto the Isle of Graciosa, where himselfe in person, 

 with seven or eight in his company went on land, asking 

 [II. ii. 180.] certaine beastes, hens, and other victuals, with wine and 

 fresh water, which they willingly gave him, and therewith 

 he departed from thence, without doing them any hurt : 

 for the which the inhabitants thanked him, and com- 

 mended him for his courtesie, and keeping of his 

 promise. 



The same time that the Erie of Cumberland was in 

 the Island of Graciosa, he came likewise to Fayall, where 

 at the first time that he came, they beganne to resist 

 him, but by reason of some controversie among them, 

 they let him land, where he razed the Castle to the 

 ground, and sunke all their Ordinance in the sea, taking 

 with him certaine Caravels and ships that lay in the road, 

 with provision of all things that he wanted : and therewith 

 departed againe to sea. Whereupon the king caused the 

 principall actors therein to be punished, and sent a 

 company of souldiers thither againe, which went out of 

 Tercera, with all kinde of warlike munition, and great 

 shot, making the foretresse up againe, the better to 

 defend the Island, trusting no more in the Portugales. 



The 99 Chapter. 



THe ninth of October 1589. there arrived in Tercera 

 fourteene ships that came from the Spanish Indies, 

 laden with Cochenile, Hides, Golde, Silver, Pearles, and 

 other rich wares. They were fiftie in companie, when 

 they departed out of the Haven of Havana, whereof, 

 in their comming out of the Channell, eleven sunke in 

 the same Channell by foule weather, the rest by a storme 

 were scattered and separated one from the other. The 

 next day there came another ship of the same companie, 



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