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coming from the Weftward .- which is ufual before a 
Wind, which drives the Water before it. 
On Michaelmas'day we were up with the Ifland Ivka 
or Ivife, as the Mariners call it , and the Wind blowiryg 
fkir^we flood our Courfe; apd the next day at Noon vi e 
md.dQ thQ I/lanJ Majorca^ fituate over again [I the King- 
dom oiFalentiat and came to an Anchor in the Bay of 
the City, being forced in hither for want of frelh Water. 
In the Afterooon the Boat was fent on fiiore ; but the 
Vice-Roy would not give usPra£tick,not bringing a Pa- 
tent- from Malaga. 
0£lob. I. The Secretary was fent with the King s Pafs 
to the Vice-Roy to demand Prattick, who prefently 
fummoned the Officers of the Sanita. After long De- 
bates and Delays they ccnfented, and came to the Mole 
to receive him. He went direSly to the Governour to 
acquaint him, that we were ready to Salute the City 
with what number of Guns he pleafed , if he would en- 
gage upon his Honour to give us as many. He reply ed, 
that he would give us three for five and wondered, thaf: 
we being but a fingle Ship, fliouldmake fuch a Demand. 
The Secretary told him, That we were to be treated as 
an Admiral, having a Flag on our Maintop ; and that 
the Governour of Malaga had done it. To thishefaid. 
That Majorca was a Kingdom, that he was the King's 
Repreftntative, and that by reafon of theMifcarriageof 
his Predecellbr, when Mon(\Gur i^e Beaufort, the Frefich 
Admiral, was there, he had received {Irift Orders from 
Madrid not to do the like. The Secretary reply ed, 
That we had an Ambaflador on board, and had asRiiQ: 
Orders, and fhould anfwer as feverely for the Breach of 
them. His laft Anfwer was. That we might, with our 
Sails loofe, keep before the Town, till we had furniflied 
our ftlves with what we wanted. Upon receiving this 
Meffage, the Ambaffador difpatched away one fofeph 
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