So that ere the morning,
from three of the clock the day before, there had fifteen several
Armadas* assailed her. And all so ill approved their
entertainment, as they were, by the break of day, far more
willing to hearken to a composition** than hastily to make any
more assaults or entries.
*Armada here means merely a Spanish ship of war.
**An arrangement to cease fighting on both sides.
"But as the day increased so our men decreased. And as the light
grew more and more, by so much more grew our discomforts. For
none appeared in sight but enemies, saving one small ship called
the Pilgrim, commanded by Jacob Whiddon, who hovered all night to
see the success. But in the morning bearing with the Revenge,
she was hunted like a hare amongst many ravenous hounds, but
escaped.
"All the powder of the Revenge to the last barrel was now spent,
all her pikes broken, forty of her best men slain, and the most
part of the rest hurt. In the beginning of the fight she had but
one hundred free from sickness and four score and ten sick, laid
in hold upon the ballast.
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