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$22 FLICKE’S VOYAGE TO THE AZORES.
and three of the clock, having raifed her hull, the weather became calm, fo thatthe fhip
could not fetch her. I fent off my fkiff thoroughly manned, furnifhed with fhot and
fwords, the Cherubin, and the Margaret and John doing the like: Upon this the fail
ftood off again, and the night approaching, our boats loft her and fo returned. In this
our purfuit after the fail, the Centurion being left a-ftern, the next morning we miffed
her, and {pent that day plying up and down feeking her. And for as much as every of
the fhips had received order, that, if by extremity of weather or any other mifchance
they fhould be fevered from our fleet, they fhould meet and join at Flores, we, accord-
ing to the infiructions of Sir Edward Denny, proceeded to the finding of my Lord
Thomas Howard, being in the;height appointed, and not able to hold the fame by reafon
of extreme tempefts which forced us to the ifles of Flores and Corvo, which we
made the fourteenth day in the morning, and there alfo joined again with the Cen-
turion, whofe company before we had loft: who declared unto us, that the twelfth
day, being the fame day they loft us, they met with five and-forty fails of the Indian
fleet. ‘The fame night, upom thefe news, we came to an anchor between Flores and
Corvo, and the morrow following at the break of day, a flag of counfel being put out,
the captains and mafters came aboard me:-where, for the defire to underftand fome
tidings of my Lord, as alfo the fupplying of our want of water, it was thought good to
fend our boats furnifhed on fhore, under the condu& of captain Brothers, and then it
was alfo ordered, after our departure thence, to range along the fouth fides of the
iflands, to the end we might either underftand of my Lord, or elfe light on the Indian
fleet; and, in the miffing of our purpofe, to direct our courfe for Cape Saint Vincent.
The boats, according to the forefaid determination, being fent on fhore, it chanced
that the Coftly, riding uttermoft in the road, did weigh to bring herfelf more near
among us for the fuccour of the boats fent off, and in opening the land difcovered two
jails, which we in the roads could not perceive: whereupon fhe gave us.a warning-
piece, which caufed us to wave off our boats back, and before they could recover our
fhips, the defcried fhips appeared unto us, towards the which we made with all hafte,
and in a very happy hour, as it pleafed God. In that we had not fo foon cleared the
Yand, and fpoken with one of them, which was a bark of Briftol, who had alfo fought
my Lord in the heights appointed, and could not find him, but a violent ftorm arofe,
in fuch a manner, as if we had remained in the road, we had been in danger of perifhing:
and the fame extremely continued during the fpace of threefcore hours. In which ftorm
I was feparated from our fleet, except the Cherubin and the Coftly, which kept com-
pany with me. And fo failing among the iflands, I viewed the road of Fayal, and
finding no roaders there, went dire€tly for the ifle of Tercera.
The nineteenth in the morning, coming unto the fame with intent to edge into the
road, atempeft arofe and fcanted the wind, that we could not feaze it: from the
which being driven, we fell among certain of the Indian fleet, which the faid ftorm dif-
perfed, and put them from the road: whereupon myfelf with the other two fhips in
company gave feveral chaces, and thereby loft the company each of other.
In following our chace above noon we made her to ftrike and yield, being a Portugal,
Jaden with hides, falfa-perilla, and anile. At this very inftant we elpied another, and
taking our prize with us followed her, and fomewhat before night obtained her, named
the Conception, Franeifeo Spinola being captain, which was laden with hides, cocho-
nillio, and certain raw filk; and for that the feas were fo growen, as neither with boat
nor fhip they were to be boarded, we kept them till fit opportunity. The fame night,
a little before day, there happened another into our company, fuppofing us by our two
prizes to be of their fleet, which we until the morning diflembled.
The
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