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one house with his owne hands three or foure, and 

 caused them that were with him to kill many others. 

 Their losse I can assure you did triple ours, aswell in 

 quality as in quantity. 



During our march to this place, Generall Drake with 

 the whole fleet was come into Cascais, and possessed the 

 towne without any resistance : many of the inhabitants 

 [II. ii. 146.] at their discovery of our navy, fledde with their baggage 

 into the mountaines, and left the towne for any man that 

 would possesse it, till Generall Drake sent unto them by 

 a Portugall Pilot which he had on boord, to offer them 

 all peaceable kindnesse, so farre foorth as they would accept 

 of their King, and minister necessaries to the army he 

 had brought ; which offer they joyfully imbraced, and 

 presently sent two chiefe men of their towne, to signifie 

 their loyalty to Don Antonio, and their honest affections 

 to our people. Whereupon the Generall landed his 

 companies not farre from the Cloister called San 

 Domingo, but not without perill of the shot of the 

 castle, which being guarded with 65 Spaniards, held still 

 against him. 



As our fleet were casting ancre when they came first 

 into that road, there was a small ship of Brasil that came 

 from thence, which bare with them, and seemed by 

 striking her sailes, as though she would also have ancred : 

 but taking her fittest occasion hoised againe, and would 

 have passed up the river, but the Generall presently 

 discerning her purpose, sent out a pinnesse or two after 

 her, which forced her in such sort, as she ran herselfe 

 upon the Rocks : all the men escaped out of her, and 

 the lading (being many chests of sugar) was made nothing 

 woorth, by the salt water. In his going thither also, he 

 tooke ships of the port of Portugall, which were sent 

 from thence, with fifteene other from Pedro Vermendes 

 Xantes Sergeant major of the same place, laden with men 

 and victuals to Lisbon : the rest that escaped put into 

 Setuvel. 



The next day it pleased Generall Norris to call all the 



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