WITHRINGTON AND LISTER ad. 



1587. 

 although wee were weakely left, yet perceiving the Galley 

 to make after our men, weyed and pursued the galley, as 

 neere the shore as we could conveniently come for want of 

 water : the hulke also weyed and came after us to follow 

 the enemie, but the enemie with his oares got sight of our 

 pinnesse and boats before wee could, and bare directly 

 with them : which being espied of our men, and they see- 

 ing no way to avoide them, made themselves ready (not- 

 withstanding the great oddes) to fight it out like men, and 

 to live and die together. The course that they tooke for 

 their best advantage upon the sudden, was this : they 

 went all into the pinnesse, and made fast the Dutchmans 

 boate to one side, and the small caravel to the other 

 side, and so waited the comming of the enemie, giving 

 them first of all a piece of Ordinance for their welcome, 

 which they presently repaied againe with a piece out of the 

 prowe of the galley, and presently after, with three or foure 

 small brasse pieces, charged with haileshot, and so giving a 

 mighty shoute, came all aboord together, crying, entrad, 

 entrad : but our men received them so hotely, with small 

 shot and pikes, that they killed them like dogs. And thus 

 they continued aboord them almost a quarter of an hour, 

 thinking to have devoured our men, pinnesse and 

 all. And surely to mans judgement, no other thing 

 was likely in regard of their great number, and the 

 fewnes of our men, and they at the first thought all 

 was their owne : but ^God, who is the giver of all 

 victories, so blessed our small company, and so 

 strengthened their armes and mindes to fight, that the 

 enemie having received a mighty foyle, was glad to 

 ridde himselfe from their handes : and whereas at their ^ marvellous 

 entrance, wee esteemed them to bee no lesse then ^^'^^^ ^f^^^ 

 betwixt two hundred and three hundred men in the ^ f.J.fJ^ 

 galley, we could scarse perceive twenty men at their 

 departure stand on their legs, but the greater part of 

 them was slaine, many deadly wounded, their oares 

 broken, & she departed from our men, hanging upon 

 one side (as a Sowe that hath lost her left eare) with 



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afezu of our 

 men. 



