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VI I.
JZoyaiCornmentaries.
~his
devout
Woman
b~iog
at
her Pray
r s.,
or
rather
felt a lee
in
tbt: mi-dd l
of her Office with her Candle
lighted,
gaYe
a fatal
:
xa
ple
and l nftan
.,
how
dangerous it
is
on
ny
occafion whatfoever to break the Rule and
0 1-
clers of the Sea,
whicn
are made for
'confervation
of the Sh
·p.,
and
tho fe
embarqued
thereon :
on~ ,
of
w~ich
is,
~hat
upo!1 no
preten~e
whatfoever,
any light fuall be
~ontmue.d_
m
the
Shi~
by mght.,
unle~s
1t
be
that
on~
Jy
which
·is
.placed
10
the B1ddacle for
the Compaii ,
or
10
the Lanthorn
on the Poop· · For
fo
it
was, that the Candle tak·ng
hold
of
the
Timber
of
the Ship, the flame broke out at the fides, before
it
was dif.covered, and
burnt
fo
v'iolently.,
that
it was imp<:>ffibl:"e
to
be
quenc:hed;
which when
the
Mafter pet"ceived,
he ordered
the Marrimer,
who
was· at the Helm.,
to
draw
up the Boat by the fide,
wherein
the
Phyfitian
had
the
day
before come
ab@ard ;
and
th~n
went
£?
t~e
Governout
A~dere1_e,
and without
any
oife
privately to-Id lum the misfortune of the Ship ; and
fo
he, and one of
the
two
Sons he had ab9ard.,
with
the Governour and the
Marrioer
fiep–
ed
into
the
Boat.,
wit hout calling or cryifig out to the othen, left th"
"People
crouging
into the
Boat,
and
every
one endeavouring
to fave
him–
fi
If,
they
fhould all be loft. .
In
this manner did the
Mafter
fave his own life, and as an expiation of
his
fin for breaking the Laws
of
the Sea, which
ought
inviolably
to.
be
obferved.,
he.
facrificed one of his
Sons.
The
Fire
having fuch
an abundance
of
matter
adminift-red
t-0
its
nou'rilhment,
fuch as Pitch
and
Tar, increafed
fo violentlyt
as foon
awakened
all the People in the Ship ;
and being
feen
by
the
other
Ship of the
Fleet, they
came as near as they durft,
and put out
their
Boats
to
fave
as
man~
of
tliofe as
they
could, who
lhould
tihrow dremfelves into the
Sea:
but
the Fke
coming
to the Guns,
whioh
were
all
fuotted, they difcharg–
ed
fo
fiertely, that the Ships were fqcced for their fafety to retire at a
di~
ftance.
and fuffer
all
the
800
perfons
then
aboard
to perilh
~
fome being burnt,
aad others drowned., who for fear of the
flames
had
thn>wn
themfelves
into
the Sea. The news
9f
which
was the
occafion
of g£eat
forraw
and lamentation
·
ov~t'
all
Pent.
Jeronimo de
Alderete..,
fo
focm
as
it
was
day,
got
aboard
one
· of his Ships, and immediately commanded a Flag t-0 be put
out
on the
main
Top-Maft head; that
they
might fee he was
ftill
alive., and had efcaped both
~e
Fire and
the
Water. And
fo
gi
ving out his
Orders
tQ
the
other Ships
to
~rofecute
their Voyage
a
Nombre de
Di.os,he returned
to
Spain
ta
renew
his
Commiffion
an~
Inftrutl:ions,
all his
Writings having
been
onfumed
by
the
Fire;
and
having
procured
his Difpatches, he again put to Sea with the
Fleet
which tranfported
Marquis de
Cannete
the
Vice-King
to
Per11;
as
Palen–
tino
reports, though
he
mentions
nothing
'Of
the
difafter
of the
Galeon.
CH AP.
IV.
The Vice-King arrives in
Peru.
J
He puts new
O/ficet·s
int.o
places of
I ruff. He
writes
Letters
to
the feveral G-01.1er–
nours.
He
Vice-'King
Don Andres
HHrtado
de Mendofa,
departed from
Panama,
·
and with a fair Wind
arrived at
Pai.ta,
which
is on
the
Confines
of
P
ru.,
from
whence he
difpatched
his re
fpeetive Orders to the
Kingdom
of
~ito,
and othe1·
parts .
thereabouts. He alfo wrote
t-o
the feveral Gover–
nours
of
the Empire; and fent a Gentleman, who was a
Kinfman
of
his Fami–
ly .,
on a particular
in
lfag.e to the Royal Chancery at
Los Reyes;
but being a
Youngman.,
he
made
too long a
fray
at St.
Michael!
Town
entertain-
.;,
ing himfc lf in Divertifcments, neither
decent
epr honeft ; ,upon notice
wher
of,
· ·