ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1589-91. 



drowned. Whose heart would not melt with teares to 

 beholde so grievous a sight, specially considering with 

 himselfe that the greatest cause thereof was the beastlines 

 and insolency of the Spaniards, as in this onely example 

 may well be seene ? Whereby may be considered how 

 the other shippes sped, as we our selves did in part 

 beholde, and by the men that were saved did heare more 

 at large, as also some others of our countreymen that 

 as then were in the like danger can well witnesse. 



On the other Hands the losse was no lesse then in 

 Tercera : for on the Hand of Saint George there were 

 two ships cast away : on the Hand of Pico two ships : on 

 the Hand of Gratiosa three ships : and besides those there 

 came every where round about divers pieces of broken 

 ships, and other things fleeting towards the Hands, where- 

 with the sea was all covered most pitifull to beholde. 

 On the Hand of S. Michael there were foure ships cast 

 away, and betweene Tercera and S. Michael three more 

 were sunke, which were seene and heard to cry out ; 

 whereof not one man was saved. The rest put into the 

 sea without masts, all torne and rent: so that of the 

 Above 100 whole fleet and armada, being 140 ships in all, there were 

 Spanish and | =)ut ^ 2 or ^ arrived in Spaine and Portugall, yea, and 

 shipsdrowned. tnose ^ ew w ^ tn so g re at misery, paine and labour, that 

 not two of them arrived there together, but this day one, 

 and to morrow another, next day the third, and so one 

 after the other to the number aforesayd. All the rest 

 were cast away upon the Hands, and overwhelmed in the 

 Sea, whereby may be considered what great losse and 

 hindrance they received at that time : for by many mens 

 judgements it was esteemed to be much more then was 

 lost by their army that came for England ; and it may 

 well be thought, and presumed, that it was no other but 

 a just plague purposely sent by God upon the Spaniards, 

 and that it might truely be sayd, the taking of the 

 Revenge was justly revenged upon them, and not by the 

 might or force of man, but by the power of God, as 

 some of them openly sayd in the He of Tercera, that they 



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