A.D. 



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The Madre de 

 Dios taken. 



Exceeding 

 humanity 

 shewed to the 

 enemy. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



sure & drawing nere the Hand perswaded his company 

 to boord her againe, or els there was no hope to recover 

 her : who after many excuses & feares, were by him 

 incouraged, and so fell athwart her foreships all alone ; 

 and so hindered her sailing that the rest had time to 

 come up to his succour, & to recover the carak yer she 

 recovered the land : and so toward the evening after 

 he had fought with her alone three houres single, my 

 lord of Cumberlands two ships came up, & with very 

 litle losse entred with sir R. Crosse, who had in that time 

 broken their courages, and made the assault easie for 

 the rest. 



The generall having disarmed the Portugals, and 

 stowed them for better security on all sides, first had 

 presented to his eyes the true proportion of the vast body 

 of this carak, which did then and may still justly provoke 

 the admiration of all men not formerly acquainted with 

 such a sight. But albeit this first apparance of the 

 hugenesse thereof yeelded sights enough to entertaine 

 our mens eyes ; yet the pitifull object of so many bodies 

 slaine and dismembred could not but draw ech mans eye 

 to see, and heart to lament, and hands to helpe those 

 miserable people, whose limnes were so torne with the 

 violence of shot, and paine made grievous with the multi- 

 tude of woundes. No man could almost steppe but 

 upon a dead carkase or a bloody floore, but specially 

 about the helme, where very many of them fell suddenly 

 from stirring to dying. For the greatnesse of the stirrage 

 requiring the labour of twelve or foureteene men at once, 

 and some of our shippes beating her in at the sterne with 

 their ordinance often times with one shot slew foure or 

 five labouring on either side of the helme ; whose roomes 

 being still furnished with fresh supplies, and our artillery 

 still playing upon them with continuall volleys, it could 

 not be but that much bloud should be shed in that place. 

 Whereupon our Generall moved with singular commiser- 

 ation of their misery, sent them his owne chyrurgions, 

 denying them no possible helpe or reliefe that he or any 



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