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846 DE CHASTE’S VOYAGE TO TERCERA.
he to the negro, you have betrayed your mafter ; but I don’t complain ; Iwas but too well
afjured that I mujft lofe- my life, having already loft my judgment and my courage. ‘Vhe
Spaniard grumbling, ftruck the negro from behind him by a ftab he gave him in the
breaft, of which he died, and placed the count in his feat, whom he carried before
the marquis, who received him with very rude language, and fent him afterwards
on board the great Galleafs, belonging to the fleet, where he was cruelly treated in
order to extort confeflion from him of what were the plans of king Anthony, and.
thofe on the continent in Portugal; condemning him afterwards to be beheaded, and
inftantly executed, in fpite of the interceffion in his favour made by the moft confi-
derable perfonages in the army, who were related to him, and were defirous of faving
his life, to the marquis of Santa Cruz; but his council were of opinion that their
prayers fhould not be granted, on account of an anfwer he had fent to a letter which
the king of Spain had addreffed to him, to entice him to join him with fair words and
promifes; “that he would rather do homage to the devil than to fuch a perfidious tyrant.”
At length he died as a good Chriftian fhould do, with fo much refolution, that he
might have been taken for one of the braveft of men, confefling, as | have before
{tated, that he himfelf had been the caufe of the lofs of the ifland, and the ruin of
the French, befeeching the marquis to refpect the engagements he had entered into
with refpect to them, and to treat them as men of honor, fuch as he had always
found them. ‘The whole of this fpeech was made in prefence of the Spanifh army,
with a {miling countenance, and with great collectednefs, fo much fo that the French
were aftonifhed, having witnefled. his want of courage on emergency, and were ex-
tremely affected at beholding him led forward with fo much brutality, in a wretch-
ed drefs; having been accuftomed to fee him treated with honor and refpect by his
own people, as we’ll as by the inhabitants of the ifland, in as great a degree as if he
had been their king; being ferved at table in a moft honorable manner, his gentle-
men and domeftics remaining always bareheaded, and prefenting him to drink kneel-
ing, with a golden falver held below to catch what might fall from his glafs; never-
thelefs all his grandeur did not prevent a death fo odious in itfelf, and fo diftrefling to
the French, whom he ever refpected, and promiled to affift in a manner the Almighty
did not allow him means to effect.
Six days before the capitulation, Don Pedro, fon of ihe late viceroy of Naples, was
commanded to befiege the ifland of Fayal with three thoufand Spaniards, where a
Portuguefe captain commanded, accompanied by four hundred French, with captain
Carles of Bourdeaux at their head. Don Pedro embarked aboard the galleys and
fome large veflels, and the fucceeding day, after reconnoitring the ifland, eafily effect-
ed a landing at the quarter where were the Portuguefe; who played the fame game
as at Tercera, running away to the mountains: neverthelefe the French, feeing the
landing effected, and the retreat of the Portuguefe, refolved to fight and die: they.
fhortly cut the throats of fifty or fixty Spaniards, who had gained a fort on the fhore,
and from that quarter attacked the van of the large body led on by Count Pedro,
where they had not much fuccels on account of the mequality, being repulfed, fight-
ing all the way, to a fort they had conftruGted in the mountains, where they ca-
pitulated upon the fame conditions as their companions at Tercera, to which
place they were carried by the faid count, and treated in the fame manner as the
others.
Upon their arrival, the commander de Chafte entreated the marquis to fulfil the
conditions of the capitulation, and furnifh him with veffels and provifions for tranf{-
porting him tothe coait of France, together with his people, which the marquis pro-
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