South America - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 7 - By Robert Kerr
 -  From these we received five or six
butts of wine and some fresh water, but by no means sufficient to - Page 629
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From These We Received Five Or Six Butts Of Wine And Some Fresh Water, But By No Means Sufficient To Serve Our Wants.

The 21st October, we sent our long-boat on shore to procure fresh water at a brook a short

Way west from Villa-franca; but the inhabitants came down with about 150 armed men, having two ensigns displayed, and our boat was forced to return without water, having spent all its powder in vain, and being unable to prevail against such great odds.

Learning that the island of St Mary was a place of no great strength, we made sail for that place, intending to take in water there, and to go thence to the coast of Spain. On the Friday following, my lord sent captain Lister and captain Amias Preston, afterwards Sir Amias, with our long-boat and pinnace, with between 60 and 70 arquebusiers, carrying a friendly letter to the islanders, desiring leave to procure water, in exchange for which he engaged to do them no harm. Captain Preston had come on board the Victory not long before from his own ship, which lost company with us in the night, so that he was under the necessity of remaining with us. We departed from the Victory in our boats about nine in the morning, rowing for the land, and by three in the afternoon had got within a league or two of the shore, being then four or five leagues from the Victory, and our men sore spent with hard rowing.

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