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820 EVISHAM’S VOYAGE TO THE’ AZORES.
for want of men to bring her home. The next day we defcried two other fails, theone
a fhip, and the other a caravel, to whom we gave chace, which they feeing, with all
{peed made in under the Ifle of Graciofa, to a certain fort there for their fuccour,
where they-came to an anchor, and having the wind of us, we could not hurt them
with our fhips, but we having a fmall boat, which we called a light-horfeman, wherein
myfelf was, being a mufqueter, and four more with calivers, and four that rowed,
came near unto the fhore again{t the wind, which, when they faw us come towards
them, they carried a great part of their merchandife on land, whither alfo the men of
both veflels went and landed, and as foon as we came within mufket fhot, they began
to fhoot at us with great ordnance and {mall fhot, and we likewife at them: and in
the end we boarded one fhip, wherein was no man left, fo we cut her cables, hoifted
her fails, and fent her away with two of our men, and the other feven of us pafled
more near unto the fhore, and boarded the caravel, which did ride within a {tone’s
caft from the fhore, and fo near the land that the people did caft {tones at us, but yet in
defpight of them all, we took her, and one only negro therein; and cutting her cables
in the hawfe we hoifted her fails, and being becalmed under the land, we were con-
{trained to row her out with our boat ; the fort ftill fhooting at us, and the people on
land with mufkets and calivers, to the number of one hundred and fifty or thereabout :
and we anfwered them with the {mall force we had; in the time of which our fhooting,
the fhot of my mufket being a crofs-bar-fhot, happened to {trike the gunner of the fort
to death, even as he was giving level to one of his great pieces, and thus we parted
from them without any lofs or hurt on our fide. And now, having taken thele five
fails of fhips, we did as before, turn away the fhip with the fifh, without hurting them,
and from one of the other fhips we took her main matt to ferve our admiral’s turn, and
fo fent her away, putting into her, all the Spaniards and Portugals, (faving that gentle-
man, Pedro Sarmiento, with three other of the principal men and two negroes,)
leaving them all within fight of land, with bread and water fufficient for ten days, if
need were.
_ Thus fetting our courfe for England, being off the iflandsin the height of 41° or
thereabout, one of our men being in the top, defcried a fail, then ten fail, then fifteen,
whereupon it was concluded to fend home thofe prizes we had, and fo left in both our
pinnaces, not above fixty men. Thus we returned again to the fleet we had defcried,
where we found twenty-four fail of fhips, whereof two of them were caraks, the one of
twelve hundred, the other of a thoufand tons, and ten galions; the reft were fmall
fhips and caravels, all laden with treafure, fpices, and fugars, with which twenty-four
fbips, we, with two fmall pinnaces did fight, and kept company the {pace of thirty-two
hours, continually fighting with them, and they with us; but the two caraks kept
itill betwixt the fleet and us, that we could not take any one of them, fo wanting powder,
we were forced to give them over again{ft our wills, for that we were all wholly bent
to the gaining of fome of them, but neceflity compelling us, and that only for want of
powder, without lofs of any of our men, (which wasa thing to be wondered at, confi-
dering the inequality of number,) at length we gave them over. ‘Thus, we again fet
our courle for England, and fo came to Plymouth within fix hours after our prizes, which
we fent away forty hours before us, where we were received with triumphant joy, not
only with great ordnance then fhot off, but with the willing hearts of all the people of
the town, and of the country thereabout; and we not fparing our ordnance (with the
powder we had left) to requite and anfwer themagain. And from thence we brought
our prizes to Southampton, were fir Walter Raleigh being our owner, rewarded us
with our fhares.
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