44° James I. Naval Expeditions, &c of the Englilh, Book III'

CHAP. XIII.

A Sea Fight between the Dolphin of London, and jive Turkhh Men of War, anda Sattie, manned with upwards of ffteen Hundred Men.

1616 HP' ^ O Accounts of this Memora-1 ble and Gallant Action havecome to my Hands; One, a Pam-phlet, publifh’d by Appointmentof the Master of the Ship Dolphin him-self, in the Year 1617. and by him de-dicated to Prince Henry ; And the otherin Day lor, the Water-Poet. They seemto have been printed both from the sameCopy, tho’ there be, here and there,a small Difference in them, which,when it is any Thing material, I shallobserve. I have kept almost everywhere to the Relater’s own Stile andWords, altering only the Orthography,and a few Expressions, which are nowquite out of Use.

The Dol- " Having {Jays my -Author} finissiedphin ’s De- our Business at Zant, we departed

" thence towards the latter End of thefC Year, 1616. being bound with our“ Loading for England. Our Ship was" named the Dolphin of London, of the(C Burden of two Hundred and twenty" Tuns, or thereabouts; (a) having in" her about nineteen cast Pieces of Ord-" nance, and five Murtherers,(£) man-" ned with six and thirty Men, and" two Boys. The Master of her was“ Mr. Edward Nichols, a Man of great" Skill, Courage, Industry and proved" Experience, who making for Eng-" land, we got clear of the Island, the. " first of January, 1617. The Wind

" being North and by East, with a" prolperous Gale, by the eighth, in" the Morning,: we had Sight of the I-" stand of Sardinia.

“ The Wind being then come West-” erly, the ninth in the Morning, we" stood in for Gallery, And, at Noon," the Wind being Southerly, we came" close by two little Watch Dowers," who stiot two Shot at us, to give"^Warning, that they would .speak to“ us; But the approaching Night would

" not permit. If we could have sent 1616." aslioar to them, their Intention was,

" as we heard afterwards, to have in-" formed us of the Durkijh Men of" War, which we afterwards met with-" al, to our Cost and Peril, as well as" theirs, for these Towers were not a-" hove two Leagues from the Place" where we made our Fight. This" Night, the Wind growing calm, we" sailed towards Cape Po/a/The tenth,

" we had very little Wind, or none at" all, till it was two of the Clock in" the Afternoon, which drove us above" three Leagues Eastward from the" Cape j Here we espied a Fleet of" Ships upon the Main of Sardinia near" unto the Road called Gallery, belong-" ing to the King of Spain.

" The twelfth of January, in the" Morning Watch, about four a Clock, Sight If tit" we had Sight of a Sail making from Turks.

" the Shoar towards us, which put in-" to our Minds some Doubt and Fear,

" and coming near unto us, we disco-" vered her tp be a Sattie, which is a“ Ship much like unto an Argofey, of" a very great Burthen and Bigness.

“ She stood in, to get between the" Shoar and us, which perceiving, we“ imagined some more Ships not to be“ far off, whereupon our Master sent" one of our Company up into the" Main-top, who discover’d five Sail of<c Ships, one after another coming up" before the Wind, which-was then at" West-Soutlv W ell. With his Per-" spective-Glass, he perceived them" to be Durkijh Men of War, the first" of them booming by himself, before" the Wind, with his Flag in the" Main-top, and all his Sails gallantly" spread abroad; After him came thetc Admiral and the Vice-Admiral, of" greater Burden than the first, and af-" ter him two more, the Rear Admi-

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fa) Taylor’s Account says, two Hundred .;■(/> Taylor's AccountTays, nine,and eighty. ' '