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CUMBERLAND’Ss VOYAGE TO THE AZORES. 807
tain of the inhabitants met in a boat, and came with captain Lifter to my Lord, to whom
he gave his choice: either to fuffer him quietly to enter into the platform there with-
out refiltance, where he and his company would remaina {pace without offering any
injury to them, that they (the inhabitants) might come unto him, and compound for
the ranfom of the town: or elfe to ftand to the hazard of war.
With thefe words they returned to the town ; but the keepers of the platform an-
fwered, that it was againft their oath and allegiance to king Philip to give over without
fight. Whereupon my Lord commanded the boats of every fhip, to be prefently
manned, and foon after landed his men on the fandy fhore, under the fide of an hill,
about half a league to the northward from. the platform: upon the top of which hill
certain horfemen and footmen fhewed themfelves, and other two companies alfo ap-
peared, with enfigns difplayed, the one before the town upon the fhore by the fea-fide,
which marched towards our landing-place, as though they would encounter us; the
other in a valley to the fouthwards of the platform, as if they would have come to help
the townfmen: during which time, they in the platform alfo played upon us with great
ordnance. Notwith{tanding, my Lord (having fet his men in order) marched along
the fea-fhore, upon the fands, betwixt the fea and the town towards the platform
for the {pace of a mile or more, and then the fhore growing rocky, and permitting no
further progrefs without much difficulty, he entered into the town, and pafled through
the {treet without refiftance, unto the platform ;-for thofe companies before mentioned,
at my Lord’s approaching, were foon difperfed, and fuddenly vanifhed.
Likewife they of the platform, being all fled at my Lord’s coming thither, left him
and his company to fcale the walls, to enter and take poffeffion without refiftance.
Jn the mean time our fhips ceafed not to batter the forefaid town and platform with
great fhot, till fuch time as we faw the red-crofs of England flourifhing upon the fore-
front thereof.
This Fayal is the principal town in all that ifland, and is fituate direftly over againft
the high and mighty mountain, Pico, lying towards the W. N. W., from that mountain,
being divided therefrom by a narrow fea, which at that place is by eftimation about
fome two or three leagues in breadth, between the ifles of Fayal and Pico.
The town contained fome three hundred houfeholds; their houfes were fair and
ftrongly builded of lime and ftone, and double covered with hollow tiles much like our
roof-tiles, but that they are lefs at the one end than at the other.
Every houfe almoft had a ciftern or well in.a garden on the back-fide: in which gar-
dens grew vines (with ripe clufters of grapes,) making pleafant fhadows, and tobacco,
now commonly known and ufed in England, wherewith their women there dye their
faces reddifh to make them feem frefh and young: pepper, Indian and common; fig-
trees bearing both white and red figs: peach-trees mot growing very tall: oranges,
lemons, quinces, potatoe roots, &c. Sweet wood (cedar, I think,) is there very com
mon eyen for building and firing.
My Lord, having pofleffed himfelf of the town and platform, and being careful of the
prefervation of the town, gave commandment, that no mariner nor foldier fhouid enter
into any houfe to make any fpoil thereof. But efpecially he was careful that’ the churches
and houfes of religion there fhould be kept inviolate, which was accordingly. performed
through his appointment of guarders and keepers for thofe places: but the re{t of the
town, either for want of the former inhibition, or for defire of {poil and prey, was rifled
and ranfacked by the foldiers. and mariners, who: fearcely left any houfe unfearched,
out of which they took fuch things as liked them, as cheltsiof fweet wood, chairs, cloth,
coverlets, hangings, bedding, apparel: and further ranged into the country, where
fome
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