a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1589-91. 



but the sea reached above them, and living fishes were 

 throwen upon the land. This storme continued not only 

 a day or two with one wind, but 7 or 8 dayes continually, 

 the wind turning round about in al places of the com- 

 passe, at the lest twise or thrise during that time, and all 

 alike, with a continuall storme and tempest most terrible 

 to behold, even to us that were on shore, much more 

 then to such as were at sea : so that onely on the coasts 

 and clifFes of the Hand of Tercera, there were above 12 

 ships cast away, and not onely upon the one side, but 

 round about it in every corner, wherby nothing els was 

 heard but complaining, crying, lamenting & telling, here 

 is a ship broken in pieces against the clifFes, and there 

 another, and all the men drowned : so that for the space 

 of 20 dayes after the storme, they did nothing els but 

 fish for dead men that continually came driving on the 

 The wracke of shore. Among the rest was the English ship called the 

 the Revenge. Revenge, that was cast away upon a clifFe neere to the 

 Hand of Tercera, where it brake in an hundred pieces & 

 sunke to the ground, having in her 70 men Galegos, 

 Biscains, and others, with some of the captive English- 

 men, whereof but one was saved that got up upon the 

 clifFes alive, and had his body and head all wounded, and 

 he being on shore brought us the newes desiring to be 

 shriven, & thereupon presently died. The Revenge had 

 in her divers faire brasse pieces that were all sunke in ye 

 sea, which they of the Hand were in good hope to waigh 

 up againe the next Sommer after. Among these ships 

 that were cast away about Tercera, was likewise a Flie- 

 boat, one of those that had bin arrested in Portugall to 

 serve the king, called the white Dove, the master of her 

 was one Cornelius Martenson of Schiedam in Holland, 

 and there were in her 100 souldiers, as in every one of 

 the rest there were. He being over-ruled by the captaine 

 that he could not be master of his owne, sayling here and 

 there at the mercy of God, as the storme drove him, in 

 the end came within the sight of the Hand of Tercera, 

 which the Spaniards perceiving thought all their safetie 



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