But The Spaniards Kept Safe In Port
For Five Or Six Months, So That The Hollanders Concluded They Durst Not
Come Out At All, And Therefore Separated To Look Out For Chinese Junks,
Of Which Some Say They Took And Plundered Twenty-Five, While Others Say
Thirty-Five.
It is certain that they took great riches, and all under
the assumed name of Englishmen.
At length the Spanish fleet put to sea,
and set upon five or six of the Dutch ships, the admiral of which was
burnt and sank, together with two other ships, the rest escaping. The
Spaniards then separated their fleet, to seek out the remaining Dutch
ships. The Spanish vice-admiral fell in with two Dutch ships one morning
and fought them both all day; but was at length constrained to run his
ship ashore and set her on fire, that she might not be taken by the
Hollanders. These two Dutch ships, and one that was in the former fight,
came afterwards to Firando, together with two other large Dutch ships
from Bantam, as big as the Clove, intending to have intercepted the
Macao ship, which they narrowly missed. Thus five great Holland ships
came this year to Firando, the smallest of them being as large as the
Clove. One of these, called the Red Lion, which was she that rode beside
us at the Moluccas, was cast away in a storm at Firando, together with a
Chinese junk they brought in as a prize.
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