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CUMBERLAND’s VOYAGE TO THE AZORES. Sit
felves a-ground to fave their lives and liberties, and fome of their goods, than come
forth to lofe their liberties and their goods to us their enemies. So we {hot at them
to fee if we could reach them, but it fell far fhort. And thus we departed, thinking
it not probable that they would come forth fo long as we watched them before the he-
ven’s mouth, or within fight of them. For the fpace of five days after we put off ta
fea, and lay without fight of them; and fent a pinnace to lie out of fight clofe by the
fhore, to bring us word if they fhould come forth. After awhile the pinnace returned
and told us, that thofe fhips in the haven had taken down their fails, and let down their
top-maits: fo that we fuppofed they would never come forth, till they perceived us to
be quite gone.
Wherefore, upon the twentieth, hearing that there were certain Scottifh fhips
at St.-Michael, we failed thither, and found there one Scottifh roader, and two
or three more at Villa Franca, the next road, a league or two from the town of St. Mi-
chael, to the eaftwards: of whom we had for our relief fome fmall quantity of wine
(viz. fome five or fix butts of them all) and fome frefh water, but nothing fufficient
to ferve our turn.
Upon Tuefday the one-and-twentieth, we fent our long-boat to fhore for frefh
water at a brook, a little to weftwards from Villa Franca.
But the inhabitants efpying us, came down with two enfigns difplayed, and about
fome hundred-and-fifty men armed, to withftand our landing. So our men having
{pent all their powder upon them in attempting to land, and not being able to prevail
at fo great odds, returned fruftrate.
From hence we departed towards St. Mary’s Ifland, minding to water there, and
then to go forthe coaft of Spain. For we had intelligence that it was a place of no
great force, and that we might water there very well: therefore, upon F riday follow-
ing, my lord fent captain Lifter, and captain Amias Prefton, now fir Amias Prefton
(who not long before came to us out of his own fhip, and fhe lofing us in the night, he
was forced to tarry ftill with us) with our long-boat and pinnace, and fome fixty or
feventy fhot in them, with a friendly letter to the iflanders, that they would grant us
leave to water, and we would no further trouble them.
So we departed from the Victory for the ifland, about nine of the cloek in the fore-
noon, and rowed frefhly until about three o’clock afternoon. At which time our men
being fomewhat weary of rowing, and being within a league or two of the fhore, and
four or five leagues from the Victory, they efpied (to their refrefhing) two fhips riding
at anchor, hard under the town, whereupon, having fhifted fome fix or feven of
our men into captain Davis his boat, being too much peftered in our own, and detain-
ing with us fome twenty fhot in the pinnace, we made way towards them with all the
fpeed we could.
By the way as we rowed, we faw boats pafling betwen the roaders and the fhore, and
men in their fhirts fwimming and wading to fhore, who, as we perceived afterwards,
were labouring to fet thofe fhips faft on ground, and the inhabitants as bufily preparing
themfelves for the defence of thofe roaders, their ifland, and themfelves. When 2
came near them, captain Lifter commanded the trumpets to be founded, but prohi-
bited any fhot to be difcharged at them, until they had direction from him: but fome
of the company, either not well perceiving or regarding what he faid, immediately
upon the found of the trumpets difcharged their pieces at the iflanders, which, for the
moit part, lay in trenches and fortified places, unfeen to their own belt advantage :
who immediately fhot likewife at us, both with fmall and great fhot, without danger
to themfelves : notwithftanding, captain Lifter earneftly haftened forward the failors
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