ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1594- 



it flamed and ran over all the Carack at an instant in a 

 maner. The Portugals lept over-boord in great numbers. 

 Then sent 1 captaine Grant with the boat, with leave 

 to use his owne discretion in saving of them. So he 

 brought me aboord two gentlemen, the one an old man 

 called Nuno Velio Pereira, which (as appeareth by the 

 4 chapter in the first booke of the woorthy history of 

 Huighen de Linschoten) was governour of Mozambique 

 and Cefala, in the yeere 1582. and since that time had 

 bene likewise a governour in a place of importance in the 

 East Indies. And the shippe wherein he was comming 

 home was cast away a litle to the East of the Cape of 

 Buona Speranza, and from thence he travelled over-land 

 to Mozambique, and came as a passenger in this Carack. 

 The other was called Bras Carrero, and was captaine of a 

 Carack which was cast away neere Mozambique, and came 

 likewise in this ship for a passenger. Also three men of 

 the inferior sort we saved in our boat, onely these two 

 we clothed and brought into England. The rest which 

 were taken up by the other ship boats, we set all on shore 

 in the He of Flores, except some two or three Negros, 

 whereof one was borne in Mozambique, and another in 

 the East Indies. This fight was open off the Sound 

 betweene Faial and Pico 6 leagues to the Southward. 

 The people which we saved told us that the cause why 

 they would not yeeld, was, because this Carack was for 

 the king, and that she had all the goods belonging to 

 the king in the countrey for that yeere in her, and that 

 the captaine of her was in favour with the king, and at 

 his returne into the Indies should have bene Viceroy 

 there. And withall this ship was nothing at all pestered 

 neither within boord nor without, and was more like a 

 ship of warre then otherwise : moreover, she had the 

 ordinance of a Carak that was cast away at Mozambique, 

 and the company of her, together with the company of 

 another Carack that was cast away a litle to the Eastwards 

 of the Cape of Buona Speranza. Yet through sicknesse 

 which they caught at Angola, where they watered, they 



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