JAMES LANCASTER a.i^. 



1595- 

 mouth of the harborow, seeing our resolution, layd out 

 haulsers, and wound themselves out of the way of us. 

 Our admiral was very joyfull, & gave great incourage- 

 ment to all his men : for, to passe these three great 

 Hollanders, he held it the greatest danger of all. About 

 12 of the clocke the governer of the towne sent a 

 Portugall aboord the admirals ship, to know what he 

 would have, and wherefore he came. He returned him 

 this answere : That he wanted the caracks goods, and 

 for them he came, and them he would have, and that 

 he should shortly see. In this processe of time, the 

 townes-men and inhabitants which saw so much ship- 

 ping, & perceived us to be enemies, gathered themselves 

 together, three or foure ensignes of men, esteemed to 

 the number of some sixe hundred at the least. These 

 came to the fort or platforme lying over against the 

 entry of the harborow, and there attended our landing : 

 but before our admirall set forward with his boats, he 

 gave expresse order to all that had charge of governing 

 the boats or galley, to run them with such violence 

 against the shore, that they should be all cast away 

 without recovery, and not one man to stay in them, 

 whereby our men might have no maner of retreat to 

 trust unto, but onely to God and their weapons. 



Now was the time come of the flood, being about 

 two of the clocke in the afternoone, when our admirall 

 set forward) and entered the harborow with the small 

 galley, and all the rest of the boats following him, the 

 Hollanders that rode in the mouth of the harborow, 

 nothing impeached him : but now the fort began to 

 play with their ordinance upon the galley and the boats ; 

 and one of their shot tooke away a great piece of our 

 ensigne out of the galley. But our saile being set, it 

 was no time for us to make any stay, but with all the 

 force we could we ranne the galley upon the shore right 

 under the fort, within a coits cast of it, with such 

 violence, that we brake her backe ; and she suncke 

 presently : for there where we landed, went a breach 

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