South America - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 7 - By Robert Kerr
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these was the Dutch masters son and four other Dutch boys; all the rest
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Among These Was The Dutch Masters Son And Four Other Dutch Boys; All The Rest Of The Spaniards And Sailors, With Captain And Master, Being Drowned. What Heart So Hard As Not To Melt At So Grievous A Sight, Especially Considering The Beastly And Ignorant Insolence Of The Spaniards?

From this instance, it may be conceived how the other ships sped, as we indeed partly beheld, and were informed by those few who were saved, some of whom were our countrymen.

On the other islands the loss was no less than at Tercera, two ships were cast away on the island of St George; two on Pico; three on Graciosa. Besides those, there were seen everywhere round about, many pieces of broken ships and other things, floating towards the islands, with which the sea was everywhere covered, most pitiful to behold. Four ships were cast away on the island of St Michael, and three more were sunk between Tercera and St Michael, from which not one man was saved, though they were seen and heard to cry out for aid. All the rest were dismasted and driven out to sea, all torn and rent; so that of the whole armada and merchant ships, 140 in all, only 32 or 33 arrived in Spain and Portugal, and these with great pain, misery and labour, not any two together, but this day one, to-morrow another, and next day a third. All the rest were cast away about the Azores islands, or foundered at sea, whereby may be judged what loss was incurred; as the loss was esteemed greater by many, than had been sustained in the great armada that went against England.

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