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FLICKE’S VOYAGE TO THE AZORES. $23
The twenticth day, in the morning, the fail being fhot fomewhat a-head of us, hav-
ing a f{pecial care for the fafe keeping of the two former; we purpofed to caufe our
prizes to’ put out more fail, thereby to keep them near in giving cliace to the other:
unto the which the mafter would not hearken nor be perfuaded, but that they would
follow us ; by the which his wilfulnefs by fuch time as we had caufed the other to yield,
and fent men on board, the Conception, Francifco Spinola captain, being brought aftern,
and having gotten the wind of us, ftood off with all her fails bearing, fo aswe were forced
to make a new chace of her; and had not the wind enlarged upon us we had loft her.
In the purfuit before we recovered her, and brought ourfelves again in company of our
other prizes, the whole day was {pent, and by this means we loft the opportunity of that
day, the weather fitly ferving to board the Portugal prize, which was in great diftrefs,
and made requeft to take them, being ready to fink, and, as we well perceived, they
: ceafed not to pump day and night; the which fhip to all our judgments the fame night
perifhed in the fea.
The one-and-twenty day, the Conception, whereof Francifco Spinola was captain,
being alfo in a leak, and the fame flill increafing, notwithftanding the continual pump-
ing, in fuch fort as not to be kept long above water, I took and difcharged out of her
two-and-forty chefts of cochonillio and filks, and fo left her with eleven feet water in
hold, and her furniture and four thoufand feven hundred hides unto the feas.
The other prize, which we have brought into the harbour, is named Noftra Sennora
de los Remedios, whereof Francifco Alvares is captain, laden with fixteen chefts of
cochonillio, certain fardels of raw filk, and about four thoufand hides. Upon the dif-
charge of the goods your worfhips fhall be particularly advertifed thereof.
In the boarding of the prizes the diforder of the company was fuch, as that they letted
not prefently befides the rifling of the Spaniards, to break open the chefts and to purloin
fuch money as was in them: notwith{tanding that it was ordered at convenient leifure
to have gone aboard myfelf, and there, in the prefence of three or four witneffes, to have
taken a juft account thereof, and the fame to have put in fafe keeping, according to the
effeéts of articles received in this behalf.
And whereas there were alfo certain fums of money taken from the company which
they had thus purloined and embezzled, and the fame with fome other parcels brought
aboard my fhip, amounting unto two thoufand one hundred and twenty-nine pezoes
and a half, the company, as pillage due unto them, demanded to have the fame fhared,
which I refufed, and openly at the main-maft read the articles formed by my lord trea-
furer and my lord-admiral, whereby we ought to be directed, and that it was not in me
any way to difpofe thereof until the fame were finally determined at home. Hereupon
they mutinied, and at laft grew into fuch fury, as that they would have it or elfe break
down the cabin, which they were alfo ready to put in practice, whereby 1 was forced to
yield, left the Spaniards which we had aboard, being many, perceiving the fame, might
have had fit opportunity to rife againft us, which, after their brawls were appeafed, they
fought to have put in execution.
By the laft advice from Caitile, the general of the king’s armada, which is lately come
to fea, hath received commandment to join his fleet with thofe of the Indies, and for to
ftay altogether at Tercera till the fifteenth of October ; for that fix pataches, with feven
or eight millions of the king’s treafure, will come by that time, or elfe they ftay their
coming from Havanna until January next, or the king’s further pleafure therein to
be known. ‘Thefe pataches are faid to be of three hundred tons the piece, and to carry
thirty pieces of brafs, andalfo of fail reported to have the advantage of any fhipping.
‘There
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