otherwise to vanquish his enemy This imagination so vaine and voyde of ground hath growne from the ignorance of some of our common sort of Marriners and vulgar people which haue beene prisoners in Spaine Who being examined and asked why her Maiesties shippes in occasions bourd not haue answered and enformed That it is the expresse order of her Maiestie and Counsell in no case to hazard her shippes by bourding yea I haue knowne some Captaines of our owne to colour their faint proceedings haue auerred as much which is nothing so For in the houre that her Maiestie or Counsell committeth the charge of any her shippes to any person it is left to his discretion to bourd or not to bourd as the reason of seruice requireth And therefore let no man hereafter pretend ignorance nor for this vanitie leaue to doe his duty or that which is most probable to redound to the honour and seruice of his Prince and Countrey and to the damage of his enemy For in case he excuse himselfe with this allegation it cannot but redound to his condemnation and disreputation And I assure all men that in any reasonable equalitie of shipping we cannot desire greater aduantage then we haue of the Spaniards by bourding The reasons why I hold it not conuenient to discourse in perticular but experience and tract of time with that which I haue seene amongst them hath taught me this knowledge and those who haue seene their discipline and ours cannot but testifie the same SECT LX. AGaine all that which hath beene spoken of the danger of the Artillery in bourding is not to be wrested nor interpreted to cut of vtterly the vse of all Artillery after bourdinâ— but rather I hold nothing more conuenient in shippes of warre then fowlers and great bases in the cage workes and Murderers in the Cobridge heads for that their execution and speedie charging and discharging is of great moment Many I know haue left the vse of them and of sundry other preuentions as of sherehookes stones in their toppes and arming them Pikebolts in their wales and diuers other engines of Antiquitie But vpon what inducement I cannot relate vnlesse it be because they neuer knew their effects and benefit and may no doubt be vsed without the inconueniences before mentioned in great Ordinance As also such may be the occasion that without danger some of the great Artillery may be vsed and that with great effect which is in the discretion of the Commanders and their Gunners as hath beene formerly seene and daily is experimented in the Reuenge of her Maiesties good experâ—ence was made who sunke two of the Spanish Armado lying abourd her SECT LXI IN these bourdings and Skirmishes diuers of our men were slaine and many hurt and my selfe amongst them receiued sixe wounds one of them in the necke very perillous another through the arme perishing the bone and cutting the sinewes close by the Arme-pit the rest not so dangerous The Master of our shippe had one of his eyes his nose and halfe his face shott away Master Henry Courton was slaine on these two I principally relyed for the prosecution of our voyage if God by sickenesse or otherwise should take me away The Spaniards with their great Ordinance lay continually playing vpon vs and now and then parled and inuited vs to surrender our selues a Buena Querra The Captaine of our shippe in whose direction and guide our liues our honour and welfare now remained seeing many of our people wounded and slaine and that few were left to sustaine and maintaine the fight or to resist the entry of the enemy if he should againe board with vs and that our contraries offered vs good pertido came vnto me accompanied with some others and began to relate the state of our shippe and how that many were hurt and slaine and scarce any men appeared to trauerse the Artillery or to oppose themselues for defence if the enemy should bourd with vs againe And how that the Admirall offered vs life and liberty and to receiue vs a Buena querra and to send vs into our owne countrey Saying that if I thought it so meete he and the rest were of opinion that we should put out a flagge of truce and make some good composition The great losse of blood had weakned me much The torment of my wounds newly receiued made me faint and I laboured for life within short space expecting I should giue vp the ghost But this parly pearced through my heart and wounded my soule words failed me wherewith to expresse it and none can conceiue it but he which findeth himselfe in the like agonie yet griefe and rage ministred force and caused me to breake forth into this reprehension and execution following Great is the Crosse which Almightie God hath suffered to come vpon me That assaulted by our professed enemies and by them wounded as you see in body lying gasping for breath those whom I reputed for my friends to fight with me those which I relyed on as my brethren to defend me in all occasions Those whom I haue nourished cherished fostered and loued as my children to succour me helpe me and to sustaine my reputation in all extremities are they who first draw their swords against me are they which wound my heart in giuing me vp into mine enemies hands whence proceedeth this ingratitude whence this faintnesse of heart whence this madnesse is the cause you fight for vniust is the honour and loue of your Prince and Countrey buried in the dust your sweete liues are they become loathsome vnto you will you exchange your liberty for thraldome will you consent to see that which you haue sweat for and procured with so great labour and aduenture at the dispose of your enemies can you content your selues to suffer my blood spilt before your eyes and my life bereft me in your presence with the blood and liues of your deere brethren to be vnreuenged is not an honourable death to be preferred before a miserable and slauish life The one susteining the honour of our nation of our predecessours and of our societie the other ignominious to our selues and reproachfull to our nation Can you be perswaded that the enemy will performe his promise with you that neuer leaueth to breake it with others when he thinketh it advantagious and know you not that with him all is conuenient that is profitable Hold they not this for a maxime that nulla fides est seruanda cum hereticis In which number they accompt vs to be Haue you forgotten their faith violated with my father in St. Iohn de Vlua the conditions and capitulations being firmed by the Viceroy and twelue Hostages all principall personages giuen for the more securitie of either party to other Haue you forgotten their promise broken with Iohn Vibao and his company in Florida hauing conditioned to giue them shipping and victuals to carry them into their Countrey immediately after they had deliuered their
a-far off with other poynts and circumstances as the occasions shall minister matter different at the discretion of the wise Commander But some one may say vnto me that in all occasions it is not convenient to giue Directions for that if the enemy happen vpon any of the Fleete or that there be any treacherous person in the company their Designements may be discovered and so prevented To this I answere that the prudent Governour by good consideration may avoyde this by publication of that which is good and necessarie for the guide of his Fleete and people by all secret instructions to giue them sealed and not to be opened but comming to a place appoynted after the manner of the Turkish direction to the Bashawes who are their Generalls and in any eminent perill to cast them by the boord or otherwise to make away with them For he that setteth Sayle not giving directions in writing to his Fleete knoweth not if the night or day following he may be separated from his Company which happeneth sometimes and then if a place of meeting be not knowne he runneth in danger not to ioyne them together againe And for places of meeting when seperation happeneth I am of opinion to appoynt the place of meeting in such a height twentie or thirtie or fortie Leagues off the Land or Iland East or West is not so fitting if the place affoord it as some sound betwixt Ilands or some Iland or Harbour It may be alledged in contradiction and with probable reason that it is not fit for a Fleete to stay in a Harbour for one Ship nor at an Anchor at an Iland for being discovered or for hinderance of their Voyage Yet it is the best for when the want is but for one or two ships a Pynace or Ship may wayte the time appoynted and remaine with direction for them But commonly one Ship though but a bad Sayler maketh more hast then a whole Fleete and is at the meeting place first if the accident be not very important The place of meeting if it might be would be able to giue at the least refreshing of water and wood SECT IX LAnching out into the Channell the wind being at East and by South and East South East which blowing hard and a flood in hand caused a chapping Sea and my Vice-admirall bearing a good Sayle made some water and shooting off a peece of Ordinance I edged towardes her to know the cause who answered me that they had sprung a great Leake and that of force they must returne into the sound which seeing to be necessary I cast about where Anchoring and going aboord presently found that betwixt Wind and Water the Calkers had left a seame vncalked which being filled vp with Pitch onely the Sea labouring that out had beene sufficient to haue sunke her in short space if it had not beene discovered in time And truely there is little care vsed now adaies amongst our countrimen in this Profession in respect of that which was vsed in times past and is accustomed in France in Spaine and in other parts Which necessitie will cause to be reformed in time by assigning the portion that every workeman is to Calke that if there bee dammage through his default he may be forced to contribute towards the losse occasioned through his negligence And for more securitie I hold it for a good custome vsed in some parts in making an end of calking and pitching the ship the next tide to fill her with water which will vndoubtedly discover the defect for no pitcht place without calking can suffer the force and peaze of the water In neglect whereof I haue seene great damage and danger to ensue The Arke Royall of his Maiesties may serue for an example which put all in daunger at her first going to the Sea by a trivuell-hole left-open in the post and covered onely with pitch In this point no man can be too circumspect for it is the security of ship men and goods SECT X. THis being remedied I set sayle in the morning and ran South-west till we were cleere of Vsshent and then South south-west till we were some hundred Leagues off where wee met with a great Hulke of some fiue or sixe hundred tunnes well appointed the which my company as is naturall to all Mariners presently would make a prize and loaden with Spaniards goods and without speaking to her wished that the Gunner might shoote at her to cause her to amaine Which is a bad custome received and vsed of many ignorant persons presently to gun at all whatsoever they discover before they speake with them being contrary to all discipline and many times is cause of dissention betwixt friends and the breach of Amitie betwixt Princes the death of many and sometimes losse of Shippes and all making many obstinate if not desperate whereas in vsing common courtesie they would better bethinke themselues and so with ordinarie proceeding iustified by reason and the custome of all well disciplined people might perhaps many times breede an increase of Amitie a succour to necessity and excuse divers inconveniencies and sutes which haue impoverished many for it hath chanced by this errour that two English ships neither carrying flag for their perticular respects to change each with other a dozen payre of shott with hurt to both being after too late to repent their follie Yea a person of credit hath told mee that two English men of Warre in the Night haue layd each other aboord willingly with losse of many men and dammage to both onely for the fault of not speaking one to the other which might seeme to carrie with it some excuse if they had beene neere the shore or that the one had beene a Hull and the other vnder sayle in feare shee should haue escaped not knowing what shee was though in the night it is no wisedome to bourd with any ship but in the maine Sea and both desiring to ioyne was a sufficient declaration that both were seekers and therefore by day or night he that can speake with the Ship hee seeth is bound vpon payne to bee reputed voyd of good Governement to hayle her before hee shoote at her Some man may say that in the meane time shee might gaine the winde in such causes and many others necessity giveth exception to all Lawes and experience teacheth what is fit to bee done Master Thomas Hampton once Generall of a Fleete of Wasters sent to Rochell Anno 1585. with secret instructions considering and as a man of experience wisely vnderstanding his place and affaires in like case shut his Eare to the instigations and provocations of the common sort preferring the publique good of both Kingdomes before his owne reputation with the vulgar people And as another Fabius Maximus cunctando restituit rem non ponendo rumores ante salutem The French Kings Fleete comming where he was and to winde-ward of him all his
as big as Wal-nuts but round and smooth and grow in great clusters the trees in forme are all one and the meate in the nut better but they haue no water Another kinde of great Cocos groweth in the Andes of Peru which haue not the delicate meate nor drinke which the others haue but within are full of Almonds which are placed as the graines in the Pomegrannet being three times bigger then those of Europe and are much like them in tast In these Ilands are Cyvet-Cats which are also found in parts of Asia and Afrique esteemed for the Civet they yeelde and carry about them in a cod in their hinder parts which is taken from them by force In them also are store of Monkies and the best proportioned that I haue seene and Parrots but of colour different to those of the west Indies for they are of a russet or gray colour and great speakers SECT XIIII WIth a faire and large winde we continued our course till we came within fiue degrees of the Equinoctiall lyne where the winde tooke vs contrary by the Southwest about the twentie of Iulie but a fayre gale of wind and a smooth Sea so that wee might beare all a taunt and to advantage our selues what wee might wee stoode to the East-wards being able to lye South-east and by South The next day about nine of the Clocke my companie being gathered together to serue God which wee accustomed to doe every morning and evening it seemed vnto me that the coulour of the Sea was different to that of the daies past and which is ordinarily where is deepe water and so calling the Captaine and Master of my Ship I told them that to my seeming the water was become very whitish and that it made shewe of Sholde water Wherevnto they made answere that all the lynes in our Shippes could not fetch ground for wee could not be lesse then threescore and tenne Leagues off the Coast which all that kept reckoning in the Ship agreed vpon and my selfe was of the same opinion And so wee applyed our selues to serue God but all the time that the service endured my heart could not be at rest and still me thought the water began to waxe whiter and whiter Our prayers ended I commanded a lead and a lyne to be brought and having the lead in foureteene fathoms wee had ground which put vs all into a maze and sending men into the toppe presently discovered the land of Guynne some fiue Leagues from vs very low Land I commanded a Peece to be shott and lay by the lee till my other Shippes came vp Which hayling vs wee demanded of them how farre they found themselues off the Land who answered some threescore and tenne or fourescore Leagues when wee told them wee had sounded and found but foureteene Fathomes and that we were in sight of Land they began to wonder But having consulted what was best to be done I caused my Shalop to be manned which I towed at the Sterne of my Ship continually and sent her and my Pynace a head to sound and followed them with an easie Sayle till we came in seaven and six fathome Water and some two Leagues from the shore anchored in hope by the Sea or by the Land to find some refreshing The Sea we found to be barren of Fish and my Boates could not discover any landing place though a whole day they had rowed alongst the Coast with great desire to set foote on shore for that the sedge was exceeding great and dangerous Which experienced wee set sayle notwithstanding the contrarietie of the winde sometimes standing to the West-wards sometime to the East-wards according to the shifting of the wind SECT XV. HEre is to be noted that the error which we fell into in our accompts was such as all men fall into where are currants that set East or West and are not knowne for that there is no certaine rule yet practised for triall of the longitude as there is of the latitude though some curious and experimented of our Nation with whom I haue had conference about this poynt haue shewed me two or three manner of wayes how to know it This some yeares before was the losse of the Edward Cotton bound for the Coast of Brasill which taken with the winde contrary neere the lyne standing to the East-wards and making accompt to be fiftie or sixtie Leagues off the Coast with all her Sayles standing came suddenly a ground vpon the sholes of Madrebombat and so was cast away though the most part of their company saved themselues vpon Raffes But with the contagion of the Countrie and bad entreatie which the Negros gaue them they died so that there returned not to their Country aboue three or â—oure of them But God Almightie dealt more mercifully with vs in shewing vs our error in the day and in time that wee might remedie it to him be evermore glory for all This currant from the line Equinoctiall to twentie degrees Northerly hath grâ—at force and setteth next of any thing East directly vpon the shore which we found by this meanes Standing to the Westwards the wind Southerly when we lay with our Ships head West and by South we gayned in our heith more then if wee had made our way good west south-west for that the currant tooke vs vnder the bow but lying west or west and by north we lost more in twelue houres then the other way we could get in foure and twentie By which plainly we saw that the currant did set East next of any thing Whether this currant runneth ever one way or doth alter and how we could by no meanes vnderstand but tract of time and observation will discover this as it hath done of many others in sundry Seas The currant that setteth betwixt New-found-land and Spaine runneth also East and West and long time deceived many and made some to count the way longer and others shorter according as the passage was speedie or slowe not knowing that the furtherance or hinderance of the currant was cause of the speeding or slowing of the way And in sea Cardes I haue seene difference of aboue thirtie Leagues betwixt the Iland Tercera and the Mayne And others haue recounted vnto me that comming from the India's and looking out for the Ilands of Azores they haue had sight of Spaine And some haue looked out for Spaine and haue discovered the Ilands The selfe same currant is in the Levant Sea but runneth trade betwixt the Maynes and changeable sometimes to the East-wards sometimes to the West-wards In Brasill and the South Sea the currant likewise is changeable but it runneth ever alongst the Coast accompanying the winde and it is an infallible rule that twelue or twentie foure houres before the Wind alters the currant begins to change In the West Indies onely the currant runneth continually one way and setteth alongst the Coast from the Equinoctiall lyne towards the North. No man hath
proverbe to bee falsely founded for that it was not to bee vnderstood that for erring it is better but because it is supposed that by hitting a man shall get emulation of the contradictors I encounâ—ered it with another that sayth better to be envied then pittied and well considering that being out of the Harbour if the winde tooke vs contrary to goe to Elizabeth Bay was better then to bee in the Port for a man must of force warpe in and out of it and in the time that the Shippe could be brought foorth into the Channell the winde being good a man might come from Elizabeth Bay to the Port and that there we should haue the wind first being more to the East-wardes and in an open Bay and moreover might set sayle in the night if the wind should rise in the Evening or in the Night whereas in the Port of force we must waite the light of the Day I made my selfe deafe to all murmurings and caused my commaund to be put in execution and doubtlesse it was Gods gracious inspiration as by the event was seene for being gotten into the Channell within an houre the winde came good and we sayled merrily on our Voyage and by the breake of the day wee had the mouth oâ— the Straites open and about foure of the Clocke in the afternoone wee were thwart of Cape Desire which is the westermost part of the Land on the Souther side of the Straites SECT XXXVIII HEre such as haue command may behold the many miseries that befall them not onely by vnexpected Accidents and mischances but also by contradictions and murmurs of their owne people of all calamities the greatest which can befall a man of discretion and valour and as difficult to be overcome for to require reason of the common sort is as the Philosopher sayth To seeke Counsell of a madd man Herein as I sayd before they resemble a stiffe necked Horse who taking the bridle in his teeth carrieth the rider whether he pleaseth so once possessed with any imagination no reason is able to convince them The best remedie I can propound is to wish our Nation in this poynt to be well advised and in especiall all those that follow the Sea ever having before their eyes the auncient Discipline of our Predecessors who in conformitiâ— and obedience to their Chiefes and Commanders haue beene a mirror to all other Nations with patience silence and suffering putting in execution what they haue beene Commanded and thereby gained the blessings due to such vertues and leaving to posteritie perpetuall memories of their glorious Victories A iust recompence for all such as Conquer themselues and subiect their most specious willes to the will of their Superiors SECT XXXIX IN apprehension whereof at land I cannot forbeare the Discipline thereof as at this day and in the dayes of late memory it hath beene practised in the States of Flaunders Fraunce and Brittayne wherâ— as the Spaniards Wallons Switzers and other Nations are daily full of murmurings and mutenies vpon every sleight occasion The like I also wish should be imitated by those who follow the Sea that is that those who are subiect to Command presume no further then to that which belongeth vnto them Qui nescit parere nescit imperare I speake this for that I haue sometimes seene vnexpert and ignorant persons yea vnable to iudge of any poynt appertaining to government or the guide of a Shippe or company of men presuming vpon their fine witts and enamored of their owne concâ—its contradict and dispute against graâ—e wise and experimented Governours many forward fellowes thinking themselues better worthie to command then to be commanded Such persons I advise not to goe but where they may command or els looking before they leapt to consider well vnder whom they place themselues seeing for the most part it is in their choyce to choose a Governour from whom they may expect satisfaction but choyce being once made to resolue with the patient wife in History That that day wherein shee married her selfe to an husband that very day shee had no longer any will more then the will of her husband And so he that by Sea or Land placeth himselfe to serue in any action must make reckoning that the time the iourney endureth he hath no other will nor dispose of himselfe then that of his Commander for in the Governors hand is all power to recompence and reward to punish or forgiue Likewise those who haue charge and Command must sometimes with patience or sufferance overcome their fury and misconceits according to occasions for it is a great poynt of wisedome especially in a generall murmuring where the cause is iust or that as often times it happeneth any probable accident may divert the minds of the discontented and giue hope of remedie or future event may produce Repentance to turne as they say the deafe eare and to winke at that a man seeth As it is saâ—d of Charles the fifth Emperour of Germany and King of Spaine who rounding his Campe one night disguised heard some Souldiers rayle and speake evill of him those which accompanied him were of opinion that he should vse some exemplary punishment vpon them not so sayth he for these now vexed with the miseries they suffer ease their hearts with their tongues but if occasion present it selfe they will not sticke to sacrifice their liues for my safetie A resolution worthy so prudent a Commander and so magnanimous a Prince The like is written of Fabius Maximus the famous Romayne who endured the attribute of Coward with many other infamies rather then he would hazard the safetie of his Countrie by rash and incertaine provocations No lesse worthy of perpetuall memory was the prudent pollicie and government of our English Navie in Anno 1588. by the worthy Earle of Nottingham Lord high Admirall of England who in like case with mature and experimented knowledge patiently withstood the instigations of many Couragious and Noble Captaines who would haue perswaded him to haue laid them aboord but well he foresaw that the enemy had an Armie aboord he none that they exceeded him in number of Shipping and those greater in Bulke stronger built and higher molded so that they who with such advantage fought from aboue might easily distresse all opposition below the slaughter peradventure prooving more fatall then the victory profitable by being overthrowne he might haue hazzarded the Kingdome whereas by the Conquest at most he could haue boasted of nothing but Glorie and an enemie defeated But by sufferance he alwayes advantaged himselfe of winde and tide which was the freedome of our Countrey and securitie of our Navie with the destruction of theirs which in the eye of the ignorant who iudge all things by the externall appearance seemed invincible but truely considered was much inferior to ours in all things of substance as the event prooved for we sunke spoyled and tooke of them many and they diminished
the experience that I haue learned which with forcible reasons I could proue to be much rather discomodious and worthy to be reformed But withall I hold it not necessary to discourse here of that particulariâ—ie but leaue the consequence to men of vnderstanding and so surcease SECT LXII ALl this second day and the third day and night our Captaine and company susteined the fight notwithstanding the disadvantage where with they fought The enemie being ever to wind-ward and wee to lee-ward their shott much damnifying vs and ours little annoying them for whensoever a man encountreth with his enemie at sea in gayning the weather gage hee is in possibilie to sinke his contrary but his enemie cannot not sinke him and therefore hee which is forced to fight with this disadvantage is to procure by all meanes possible to shoote downe his contraries Masts or Yards and to teare or spoylr his tackling and sayles for which purpose billets of some heavie wood fitted to the great Ordinance are of great importance And so are Arrowes of fire to bee shot out of slur-bowes and cases of small shot ioyned two and two together with peeces of wyer of fiue or six ynches long which also shot out of muskets are of good effect for tearing the sayles or cutting the tackling Some are of opinion that crosse barres and chaine-shot are of moment for the spoyling of Masts and Yards but experience dayly teacheth them not to be of great importance though neere at hand I confesse they worke great execution but the round shott is the onely principall and powerfull meane to breake Mast or Yard And in this our fight the Admirall of the Spaniards had his fore-mast shot through with two round shott some three yardes beneath the head had either of them entred but foure ynches further into the heart of the Mast without all doubt it had freed vs and perhaps put them into our hands The third day in the after-noone which was the 22. of Iune 1594. according to our computation and which I follow in this my discourse our sayles being torne our Mastes all perished our pumpes rent and shot to peeces and our shippe with foureteene short vnder water and seven or eight foote of water in hold many of our men being slaine and the most part of them which remayned sore hurt and in a manner altogether fruiteles and the enemie offering still to receaue vs a buena querra and to giue vs life and libertie and imbarkation for our countrey Our Captaine and those which remayned of our Company were all of opinion that our best course was to surrender our selues before our â—hippe suncke And so by common consent agreed the second time to send a servant of mine Thomas Sanders to signifie vnto mee the estate of our shippe and company And that it was impossible by any other way to expect for hope of deliverance or life but by the miraculous hand of God in vsing his Almighty power or by an honourable surrender which in every mans opinion was thought most convenient So was I desired by him to giue also my consent that the Captaine might capitulate with the Spanish Generall and to compound the best partido he could by surrendring our selues into his hands vpon condition of life and libertie This hee declared vnto me being in a manner voyd of sence and out of hope to liue or recover which considered and the circumstances of his relation I answered as I could that hee might iudge of my state readie every moment to giue vp the Ghost and vnable to discerne in this cause what was convenient except I might see the present state of the shippe And that the honour or dishonour the wel-fare or misery was for â—hem which should be partakers of life At last for that I had satisfaction of his valour and true dealing in all the time hee had served me and in correspondence of it had given him as was notorious charge and credit in many occasions I bound him by the loue and regard hee ought me and by the faith and duty to Almighty God to tell me truely if all were as he had declared Whereunto hee made answere that hee had manifested vnto mee the plaine and naked truth and that hee tooke God to witnesse of the same truth with which receiving satisfaction I forced my selfe what I could to perswade him to annimate his companions and in my name to intreate the Captaine and the rest to persevere in defence of their libertie liues and reputation remitting all to his discretion not doubting but he would be tender of his dutie and zealous of my reputation in preferring his liberty and the liberty of the Company aboue all respects whatsoever As for the welfare hoped by a surrender I was altogether vnlikely to be partaker thereof Death threatning to depriue me of the benefit which the Enemie offered but if God would bee pleased to free vs the ioy and comfort I should receiue might perhaps giue me force and strength to recover health Which answere being delivered to the Captaine hee presently caused a slagge of truce to be put in place of our Ensigne and began to parley of our surrendry with a Spaniard which Don Beltran appointed for that purpose from the poope of the Admirall to offer in his name the conditions before specified with his faithfull promise and oath as the King Generall to take vs a buena querra and to send vs all into our owne Countrey The promise hee accepted and sayd that vnder the same hee yeelded and surrendred himselfe shippe and company Immediately there came vnto me another servant of mine and told me that our Captaine had surrendred himselfe and our shippe which vnderstood I called vnto one Iâ—an Gomes de Pineda a Spanish Pilote which was our prisoner and in all the fight we had kept close in hold and willed him to goe to the Generall Don Beltran de Castro from mee to tell him that if he would giue vs his word and oath as the Generall of the King and some pledge for confirmation to receiue vs a buena querra and to giue vs our liues and libertie and present passage into our owne Countrey that we would surrender our selues and shippe into his handes Otherwise that hee should never enioy of vs nor ours any thing but a resolution every man to dye fighting With this Message I dispatched him and called vnto me all my Company and encouraged them to sacrifice their liues fighting and killing the Enemie if he gaue but a fillip to any of our companions The Spaniards willed vs to hoise out our boate which was shott all to peâ—â—es and so was theirs Seing that hee called to vs to amaine our sayles which wee could not well doe for that they were slung and wee had not men inough to hand them In this parley the Vice-admirall comming vpon our quarter and not knowing of what had past discharged her two chase peeces at vs and hurt