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850 DE CHASTE’S VOYAGE TO TERCERA.
obliged from the fcarcity of provifion, which was fo great, that the portpn of each fol-
dier was reduced to about as much of ftinking water as could be contaned in the hol-
low of the hand, and about the fize of a walnut of bifcuit per day. But the com-
mander being importuned to difcharge them, gave his confent for that purpofe to one
hundred and twenty, the greater part of whom died in Spain, owing tq the bad treat-
ment they received, or the illnefs under which they laboured.
Tuefday, fixteenth of the month, the contrary wind appearing to change, gave
an opportunity for weighing anchor, and fetting fail, after the captain had put feven
or eight cafks of water on board; but in leaving the roads a fog arofe, accompanied
by a great ftorm which fhattered the main ma(t, and fhivered all the fails in fuch
manner, that we all imagined we were at the end of our afflictions; o1 this occafion
the Bifcayan captain fhewed the bafenefs of his foul, and his avarice; pr full of rage
he exclaimed, O God! wilt thou at laft make me lofe my dear [hip which ej? me ten thou-
fand franks ; rather than fo, let the devil take me. On this occafion, dl the others
aboard invoked the afliftance of the Almighty, who again preferved them from this.
misfortune, and quelled the ftorm; which feparated the two other vefels and barks
from the commander, and drove them, the commander Du Mayet, who was in one,
into Valentia, in Spain; thirty-fix leagues diftant from the commander; captain Carles,
of Bordeaux, to the iflands of Bayonne, twenty-four leagues diftant ; and captain Cam-
pagnol, who was with the fick on board the bark, away to fea a confiderable diftance
from the commander ; this contrary wind which became more and more violent, tofled
them about nearly a fortnight, during which time ten or twelve bodies were daily
thrown overboard, from the commander’s veffel, which had no longer any thing to eat
on board, and very little todrink ; fo that without the interpofition of the Almighty,
who by earneft prayer was induced to fend a favourable wind, we were upon the
point of cafting lots who fhould be devoured by the reft. After two days and one night
in this condition, they arrived at the part of the town of Gueytarge to which the Bifcayan
captain belonged, where theyimmediately obtained bread and water, through the medium
of a French gentleman who was better provided than his companions, and who lent the
commander money. It was ten leagues by fea from there to Fontarabia, to which
place the Bifcayan captain was ordered to condué us; he however told the commander,.
that he had not determined to carry him any farther, but that he might go by land if he
pleafed ; upon this the commander immediately gave advice to the governor of Fontara-
bia, informing him of the little refpect fhewn by the Bifcayan to the orders of the marquis
of Santa Cruz, and that owing to hisnegleét his people were dying. Immediately upon
this, the governor fent a man to the Bifcayan, ordering him upon pain of death to
proceed inftantly to the village of Andaye, oppofite to Fontarabia, there being only a
fmall arm of the fea between, which feparates France from Spain. He accordingly im-
mediately prepared floops and boats to carry the commander and his people to Fonta-
rabia, and as they were paffing this little arm, a Spanifh gentleman came on the part of
the governor, to offer to the commander provifions, money, horfes, and cloaths, ftating
that he had direétions from his Spanith Majefty, to fhew every kindnefs in his power to
him, and to his people; the commander thanked him but accepted nothing of him,
but horfes to tranfport him and thofe who were the moft ill to Bayonne, about ten or
twelve leagues diftant. At length they landed at the village of Andaye, on the fourth
of O&ober, where the inhabitants of the place feeing them arrive fo miferable and
ragged, received them into their houfes and treated them in the beft manner they
wereable; the next morning the greater part of them brought their mules, and affes,
to carry them to the trembling bridge, three leagues from there; and fome women
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