a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1589-91. 



prisoners : yet went they up and downe the streetes to 

 get their livings, by labouring like slaves, being in deede 

 as safe in that Island, as if they had beene in prison. 

 But in the ende upon a Sunday, all the Saylers went 

 downe behinde the hils called Bresil : where they found 

 a Fisher-boat, whereinto they got and rowed into the 

 sea to the Erie of Cumberlands shippes, which to their 

 great fortune chanced at that time to come by the 

 Island, and ankered with his ships about halfe a mile 

 from the Road of Angra, hard by two small Islands, 

 which lie about a bases shot from the Island and are 

 full of Goats, Deere and Sheepe, belonging to the in- 

 habitants of the Island of Tercera. Those Saylers knew 

 it well, and thereupon they rowed unto them with their 

 boates, and lying at anker that day, they fetched as many 

 Goates and sheepe as they had neede of: which those 

 of the towne and of the Island well saw and behelde, 

 yet durst not once goe foorth : so there remained no 

 more on land but the Master and the Marchant of the 

 said English ship. This Master had a brother in lawe 

 dwelling in England, who having newes of his brothers 

 imprisonment in Tercera, got licence of the Queene of 

 England to set forth a ship, therewith to see if he could 

 recover his losses of the Spaniards by taking some of 

 them, and so to redeeme his brother that lay prisoner 

 in Tercera, and he it was that tooke the two Spanish 

 ships before the Towne, the Master of the ship aforesaid 

 standing on the shore by me, and looking upon them, 

 for he was my great acquaintance. The ships being 

 taken that were worth 300 thousand duckats, he sent al 

 the men on land saving onely two of the principall 

 Gentlemen, which he kept aboord thereby to ransome 

 his brother : and sent the Pilot of one of the Indian 

 ships that were taken, with a letter to the Governor of 

 Tercera : wherein he wrote that he should deliver him 

 his brother, & he would send the 2 Gentlemen on land : 

 if not, he would saile with them into England, as indeed 

 he did, because the Governour would not doe it, saying 



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