putting out of the fire, they would euer be plying them with small shot or darts.  This vnusuall casting of fire did much dismay many of our men and made them draw backe as they did.  When we had not men to enter, we plied our great ordinance much at them as high vp as they might be mounted, for otherwise we did them little harme, and by shooting a piece out of our forecastle being close by her, we fired a mat on her beak head, which more and more kindled, and ran from thence to the mat on the bow-sprit, and from the mat vp to the wood of the bow-sprit, and thence to the top saile yard, which fire made the Portugals abaft in the ship to stagger, and to make shew of parle.  But they that had the charge before encouraged them, making shew, that it might easily be put out, and that it was nothing.  Whereupon againe they stood stifly to their defence.  Anone the fire grew so strong, that I saw it beyond all helpe, although she had bene already yeelded to vs.  Then we desired to be off from her, but had little hope to obtaine our desire; neuerthelesse we plied water very much to keep our ship well.  Indeed I made little other reckoning for the ship, my selfe, and diuers hurt men, then to haue ended there with the Carak, but most of our people might haue saved themselues in boats.  And when my care was most, by Gods prouidence onely, by the burning asunder of our spritsaile-yard with ropes and saile, and the ropes about the spritsaile-yarde of the Carack, whereby we were fast intangled, we fell apart, with burning of some of our sailes which we had then on boord.  The Exchange also being farther from the fire, afterward was more easily cleared, and fell off from abaft And as soone as God had put vs out of danger, the fire got into the fore-castle, where, I think, was store of Beniamin, and such other like combustible matter, for it flamed and ran ouer all the Carack at an instant in a maner.  The Portugals lept ouer-boord in great numbers.  Then sent I captaine Grant with the boat, with leaue to vse his owne discretion in sauing of them.  So he brought me aboord two gentlemen, the one an old man called Nuno Velio Pereira, which (as appeareth by the 4 chapter in the first booke of the woorthy history of Huighen de Linschoten) was gouernour of Mocambique and Cefala, in the yeere 1582. and since that time had bene likewise a gouernour in a place of importance in the East Indies.  And the shippe wherein he was comming home was cast away a little to the East of the Cape of Buona Speranza, and from thence be traueiled ouer-land to Mocambique, and came as a passenger in this Carack.  The other was called Bras Carrero, and was captaine of a Carack which was cast away neere Mocambique, and came likewise in this ship for a passenger.  Also three men of the inferior sort we saued in our boat, onely these two we clothed and brought into England.  The rest which were taken vp by the other ship boats, we set all on shore in the Ile of Flores, except some two or three Negros, whereof one was borne in Mocambique,