A VOYAGE TO THE AZORES ad 



1586. 



laden with Treasure, spices, and sugars, with which 24. 



shippes we with two small Pinasses did fight, and kept 



company the space of 32. houres, continually fighting 



with them and they with us, but the two Caracks kept 



still betwixt the Fleete and us, that wee could not take 



any one of them, so wanting powder, wee were forced 



to give them over against our willes, for that wee were 



all wholly bent to the gaining of some of them, but 



necessitie compelling us, and that onely for want of 



powder, without losse of any of our men, (which was 



a thing to be wondered at considering the inequalitie of 



number) at length we gave them over. Thus we againe The 2. pinasses 



set our course for England, and so came to Plimouth r ^ ur ^ e P r 



within 6. houres after our prizes, which we sent away 



40. houres before us, where wee were received with 



triumphant joy, not onely with great Ordinance then 



shot off, but with the willing hearts of all the people 



of the Towne, and of the Countrey thereabout ; and we 



not sparing our Ordinance (with the powder wee had 



left) to requite and answere them againe. And from 



thence wee brought our prizes to Southampton, where 



sir Walter Ralegh being our owner, rewarded us with 



our shares. 



Our prizes were laden with sugars, Elephants teeth, 

 waxe, hides, rice, brasill, and Cuser, as by the testimonie 

 of John Evesham himselfe, Captaine Whiddon, Thomas 

 Rainford, Benjamin Wood, William Cooper Master, 

 William Cornish Master, Thomas Drake Corporall, John 

 Ladd gunner, William Warefield gunner, Richard 

 Moone, John Drew, Richard Cooper of Harwich, 

 William Beares of Ratcliffe, John Row of Saltash, and 

 many others, may appeare. 



j_A briefe 

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