summe of money and withall to deliuer him one hundreth female Sturgeons one hundreth males which male Sturgeons because they are a daintie fish the king eate them at his owne table the females he kept for his pleasure After that our General went against the Porpeses which he ouercame brought vnder our subiection Wherewith the number of our armed Tonnies grew so great and puissant that we held manie kinde of fishes in subiection vnder vs all which became tributaries and gaue pledges as we said before Then our Captaine not being contenced with the victories past armed himselfe against the Cocodriles which are a kinde of most fierce fishes and liue sometime in the sea and sometime on the land with whom we had manie battailes and although wee lost some yet for the most part he bare away the victorie But it was no meruaile that we lost some because as I said before those kinde of fishes are verie fierce cruell great bodied with great téeth and long tuskes wherewith they tare in péeces as many of vs as they could reach into their pawes and yet for all their fiercenes we manie times put them to the worst vnles if were somtimes when they saw themselues ouer-pressed by our Tonnies then they forsooke the water and took the land and so they escaped Which our Captaine Licio perceiuing in the end left them after he had spoyled great numbers of them and hee himself likewise receiued great damage and lost the good Melo his brother which caused no smal gréefe throughout the whole Armie But our comfort was that he died like a valiant Tonnie for it was reported vnto vs for a truth that before they killed him he in person with his sword wherewith he was very nimble killed more than a thousand Cocodriles yet they had not killed him if it had not chanced that they flying and he after them he sodainly fell vpon the land there stayed by which meanes not being able to be seconded by his companie the enemie tare him in péeces In the end good Captaine Licio returned from the warres the most renowned fish that then liued in the seas bringing with him great rich spoyles which he gaue wholly vnto the King without taking anie thing for himselfe At his returne his Highnes receiued him with such countenance and entertainment as belonged vnto a fish that had done him so great seruice and honour and withall bestowed most liberall rewards vpon him as also vnto those that had followed him in such manner that euerie one found himselfe contented and pleased And the King to shew the greater fauour vnto Licio mourned for Melo his brother the space of eight dayes and so did we al. Your worship must vnderstand that the mourning among the fishes is that when they are sad and mourne during that time they speak not but onely by signes aske what they desire to haue And this is the manner that is obserued among them whē as their husbands wiues children or frends doe die they mourne in that sort as I said before and kéep it so straightly that it is holden for a great ignomie and that the greatest that may be found within the seas if whē they mourne they chance to speake vntill such time as the King sending vnto them willeth them to leaue mourning and then they speak as they did before I heard it reported among them that a Lord for the death of a Ladie whom he loued and kept as his frend mourned in his owne Countrey for the space of ten yeares and for all that the King could doo he might not cause him to leaue off mourning because that at such time as he sent him word to leaue off he sent word to beséech his Grace to cause him to bee killed rather than leaue off mourning which he could not do And which is more I was tolde wherein I tooke great pleasure to heare it that his seruants perceiuing his long silence some of them at a month others another month and other some at two months as they desired to speake forsooke his house so that in the end he had not one left and here with his mourning continued so long that although he had desired to leaue it hee knew not with whom to speake When they tolde me this I called to my remembrance diuers talkatiue men with whom I am verie well acquainted who neuer leaue talking but assoone as one tale is ended they begin againe And many times because they would not loose companie they cut off their tales in the middle and begin others and so continue vntill the very night come vpon them that they must néeds leaue company or els they would neuer haue done and the worst is that these men do not perceiue how much they offend God and the world herein and I thinke are little lesse then troublesome vnto the diuel himselfe and he that will be wise let him flie the companie of these fooles because like requireth like for their paines I wish they were vassalls vnto this Barron and that during their aboad with him his friend might die that I might be reuenged on them CHAP. X. How the King and Licio determined to marry Lazarus vnto the faire Ladie Luna and how they were married BVt returning vnto our matter the mourning and sorrow holden for the death of Melo being past the king sent word that with all spéede the number of armed Tonnies should bee new supplied and increased and that they should go séeke more armes which was presently done At which time it séemed good vnto the king to marry me to some one whom he thought good and therupon he dealt with Licio about the same vnto whom he committed the matter but he would willingly haue bene quit of the charge because he knew somewhat by her but for that it pleased the king he durst not otherwise doo so he brake the matter vnto me being not a little ashamed to do it saying that he sawe and knew I deserued more honour as my déedes witnessed but the king had expresly commanded that he should be the mariage maker In the end the matter being at that point it is my good fortune sayd I vnto my selfe a nayle is not good to play at tennis withall and a plague of such a ball as cannot be taken but at the second rebound and séeing it pleaseth God it shall be no otherwise and that it is for my profite and aduancement it is reason that I climbe from a priest vnto a king In the ende I did it and my mariage was solemnized with so great triumphs and feastings as if it had bene for a prince being honored with the degrée of a vicount that the king gaue me with her which if I had it here vpon earth would do me much more good than in the sea in the end from the base or meanest Tonny my name rose vnto a Signior In the manner my signory led a tryumphant life married very richly
Licio did vnto me was for to vex and gréue him and knowing verie wel he had but a hard witnes of him because he was with me when the General entring into the caue cried peace peace This together with that which the good Captaine and better than he had done vnto me caused him to procure this mischiefe against him and as hee came vnto the Court he went presently with great complaints vnto the King accusing him as a traitor saying that one night as the said Licio was Captaine of the guard and held the néerest Centinell vnto the caue for a great summe of money which was giuen him by the enemie that he might escape he left his watch Which he affirmed to be true by diuers witnesses and euen so God helpe him as he told the truth for that Lazaro de Tormes could not giue any thing vnles it wer a number of their heads that lay dead at his féete And going on with his falshood sayd that he had brought from strange places a most cruell and wicked Tonny the which had slaine a great number of his Armie with a sword that he carried in his mouth wherewith he plaid his part so nimbly that it was impossible for him to doo it except he were some diuel that for the destruction of the Tonnies had taken their shape vpon him and that he perceiuing the great damage which the wicked Tonny had done banished him from the armie vpon paine of death and that the said Licio in despite of the King and of his royall crowne as also in despite of him had entertained the said Tonny in his companie giuen him aide for the which causes he affirmed him to be a traitor and to haue incurred the danger of the lawes and in respect thereof he ought to be deliuered into the hands of the Iustices to be punished for his offences that by him others might take example that hereafter none might break the Kings commandements The King being thus wrong enformed and worse counselled giuing so much credit vnto his wicked Captaine with two or thrée false witnesses that swore as he had taught them and with a proofe made in the absence of the partie accused the same day that Captaine Licio arriued at the Court altogither innocent and ignorant of the matter he was commanded to be taken and put into a cruell dungeon with a great chaine about his necke and commission giuen vnto the Captain Generall to kéep him safe and to sée him punished according vnto his desert who presently prouided more then thirtie thousand Tonnies to watch him CHAP. VI. How that Lazarus vnderstanding of his friend Licios imprisonment was verie much greeued thereat and all the rest of his company and what order they tooke for the same THese sorrowfull and dolefull newes were brought vs by some of those that went with him declaring vnto vs how they had charged him in such sort as I sayd before and in what maner he had béen heard and that it would go hardly with him by reason that all the Iudges which had to do in the cause were suborned by the Generall so that as they thought the matter procéeding in such order as it did he could not long escape from a most cruell death At that time I called to minde the old saying commonly vsed and sayd vnto my selfe When shalt thou ende thy aduentures when thou shalt haue finisht a thousande misfortunes on the land and many more in the seas At this their spéech there beganne among vs a great lamentation and crie but in my selfe a double sorrow because that on the one side I sorowed for my friend and on the other side I lamented mine owne estate for that wanting him I had no hope of life being then both in the middle of the seas and of my enemies altogither without comfort and forsaken for it séemed vnto me that all the company complained on me and that with moste iustly and by good reason for that I was the only cause that they must lose him whom they desired Wherewith I sayd You my Lord departed from me in great sorow without once imparting your grief vnto me now I sée well that you prognosticated my great losse without all doubt sayd I this is the dreame that you my good friend dreamed this is that grief which at your departure leauing me you left vs withall And thus euery one mourned and lamented vnto himselfe till at the last I spake in presence of them all My Lady and you my Lord and friends that which the sorrowfull newes hath constrained vs to do hath béen iustly done for each of vs by outward signe doth show his inward griefe but séeing that this our first motion is past as it were in a moment it is good reason my Lordes séeing that with teares and complaintes our losse is not recouered that we giue order presently for the best remedie that may be deuised therein and the same well wayed and considered to put presently in effect séeing that as these men say the occasion of spéeding the matter which by those men that hate vs is ministred vnto vs doth require the same To this the faire chast Tonny his wife sheading many teares from her gracious eies answered me All of vs most valiant gentleman do very wel perceiue know that your reasons are most true as also the soden necessitie which at this present offreth it self vnto vs verifieth the same wherfore if the these gentlemen and my friends were all of my opinion we should all referre our selues vnto you as vnto him whome God hath indowed with a most cleare perfect iudgement for séeing that Licio my Lord being so wise learned did put you in trust with his most earnest waightie affaires and therein followed your counsell I do not thinke that I erre any thing herein although I am but a weake simple woman in desiring you to take the charge vpon you for the prouiding ordeining of that which shall be conuenient to be done for the safetie of him the loued you with so sincere a loue and to the comfort of this his sorowfull wife which by this meanes you shal alwaies bind vnto you This said she returned vnto her complaints and al we did the like Melo other Tonnies were with the captaines wife and at the present agreed in one consent with her giuing me the charge of the enterprise offring themselues to follow me and to do all whatsoeuer I would command them I séeing that I was in dutie bound to do it and to take vppon me all care trouble for him that for me was in such misery tooke the matter vpon me saying vnto them I knew very wel that euery one of you could do it better than I but séeing that it pleaseth you so to appoint it I am very well content therwith They thanked me and thē it was presently agreed vppon that wee should make the same knowne vnto all the Regiment
all such as then were drowned with vs and began to thinke with my selfe that peraduenture although they had dronke as I did they would not all haue béen so wilfull and obstinate as my selfe because they were not all Lazaroes de Tormes who learned the Arte at that notable schoole of the Tauernes and Cellars of Toleda in the companie of my masters the Dutchmen In this manner calling to memorie these and manie other things I perceiued a great quantitie of Fishes to approach vnto the place where I was some rising from the bottome of the Sea others descending downward and all of them ioyning together besieged mee round about where I sate I saw and knew verie well that they came with an euill intent and meaning wherewith hauing more feare than will I began to rise and with much paine stood vppon my féete thinking to defend my selfe against them but all in vaine being at that instant in a manner spoyled and stiffe with colde by meanes of the euill water which had entered into my bodie whereof I was so sicke that I could not by anie meanes sustaine my selfe nor yet once lift vp my sword for to defend mée And as I perceiued my selfe to approach so néere vnto my death I looked if I could finde anie remedie against that miserie and to séeke it in my sword there was no long hope for the reasons before alleadged Wherefore going vppon the Rocke as well as I could as GOD would I found a little hoale wherein I entered and beeing within I perceiued it to bee a Caue made into the Rocke and although the entrie were but strayght and narrow yet was there space inough within to tourne and wynde my selfe and vse my weapons at pleasure whereinto there was no other entrie but that onely which I had luckely found out It séemed the Lord himselfe had sent me thither for by that onely meanes I recouered againe some part of my former strength which before I had almost vtterly lost Wherewith taking againe to my selfe fresh courage and reuiuing my drouping spirites I turned my face towards my enemies placing the poynt of my sword at the entrie of the Caue and so began with most fierce Stoccadoes to defend my Fort. By that time the whole multitude of fishes had besieged me round about giuing most great flashes and assaults against me in the water and approching very neere vnto the mouth of the caue but such as séemed to bee most hardye presuming to eate in I thinke escaped not scot free For as I stood directly with my sword against the entrie of the caue they thinking to enter fell vpon my sword and so lost their liues and others which with great furie approached néere vnto me got their reward with blowes All this notwithstanding made them not breake vp their siege but in the meane time it waxed darke and night approaching made the fight somewhat to cease although they left not off manie times to assaile me proouing whether I slept or if by anie meanes they might perceaue me to be wearied and weake This thus continuing poore Lazarus being in this great extremitie perceiuing my selfe assieged by so manie enemies in so strange a place without all remedie or hope of reléefe and considering that my good conseruator I mean the wine began by little and little to consume within me in place whereof the salt water entred and that each houre I began to waxe weake because it was not possible for me to sustaine my self my nature being altogether contrarie vnto theirs that remained and dwelt in the water and that likewise my strength failed me by reason that of a long time I had not eaten any thing wherwith to strengthen the same but to the contrarie laboured and trauelled my wearie bodie as also because the water doth disgest and consume verie much I still looked for no other thing than when my sword would fall out of my weake trembling hands which should no sooner be perceiued by my enemies but they would put me to a most cruell and bitter death making their bodies my sepulcher All which by me well weighed and considered and on the contrarie not finding any remedie or meanes of releefe I turned vnto him to whom all good Christians haue recourse recommending my selfe vnto him that giueth ayde and reléefe to all such as craue it at his hands that was the most merciful God our Lord Iesus Christ Then I began afresh to sigh lamenting and bewayling my former sinnes asking mercie and forgiuenes for them and committing my selfe vnto his diuine will and pleasure I besought him to deliuer me from that cruell death with promise that if it pleased him to giue me life I would become a new man euer after Then I made my prayers vnto the most glorious Saint Marie his Mother and our Ladie promising to visite her in her houses of Monferrat of Guadalupe and on the borders of France After that directing my supplications vnto all the Saints but specially vnto S. Eliâ—â—us and vnto Monsieur S Amador which both haue power ouer the waters This done I rehearsed certaine oraisons as manie as I could remember learned of my master which with most great deuotion I vttered besides diuers other prayers which haue force and power against the perills of the water Which done in the ende the Lord Iesus by the vertue of his passion and by the force of the Saints prayers and for the pitie of my great miserie which as then appeared before mine eies wrought in me a most maruellous and rare miracle although in respect of his mightie power it séemed nothing which was that I being thus in manner without a soule sicke and halfe choaked with the great quantitie of water which as I said before had entered into my bodie to my no little damage and likewise being stiffe and as it were dead with cold that still assailed me which as long as my preseruer the wine remained in his force I neuer once did feele My sorrowfull bodie being wearied and as it were broken in péeces by meanes of the anguish and continuall persecution thereof together with the discontinuance of eating meate I sodainly felt my selfe to be changed from the shape of a man which I had béen not féeling either hand or foote vnto the verie shape and forme of those which had and did at that present besiege me round about Whose shape when I perceiued my selfe to be changed into I presently knew them to be fishes called a Tonnie and then I vnderstood how they sought my death saying This is the traitor and the enemie of our sauery and most sacred waters this is the aduersarie not onely of vs but also of all other Fishes which at this present hath made such an execution and slaughter among vs killing and murthering so great multitudes of our nation it is not possible for him to escape from hence but day once appearing wee will bee reuenged on him Thus I heard the iudgement which my
masters the fishes pronounced against mee beeing a Tonny as well as they In this manner being chaunged I rested and refreshed my selfe in the Water taking my breath and finding my selfe as cléerely without paine or gréefe as if I neuer had anie washing my body both within and without with that water which then and from that time forward I found to be verie swéete and sauerie viewing and beholding my selfe if I could perceiue anie part of my bodie that was not changed into a Tonnie and so remaining in the caue in great ease and pleasure I thought with my selfe that it would be good for me as soone as day came to get mee out from thence but then I feared they would know me and so my conuersion should be manifest vnto them On the other side I feared my issuing forth distrusting in my selfe that they could not vnderstand me and that I could not bee able to aunswere them vnto that which they should aske mee by which meanes my secrete might be discouered For although I vnderstood them verie well and that I perceiued my selfe to be of their forme and shape yet I greatly feared to be among them In the end I determined the best way for mee was that they should not finde me within the caue for they finding mee not to be of their companie and Lazarus de Tormes not being found they will straight iudge me to haue saued him and so will demaund an accompt of him at my hands For the which cause it séemed best vnto me that I going out of the caue before it were day and thrusting my selfe among them being so great a number peraduenture they would not sée me neither yet once finde me to bee a stranger and as I determined with my selfe so I put it in effect CHAP. II. How Lazarus de Tormes called a Tonny fish went out of the caue and how the Centinells of the Tonny fishes tooke him and lead him before the Generall of the Armie IN skipping out of the caue and leauing the rocke I was presently desirous to proue my new language and began with a loud voyce to say I dye I dye Those words scarce vttered by mee the Centinell which held the watch ouer the poore sinner Lazaro de Tormes came vnto me standing about me asked me whom I serued Sirs said I I serue the Fishes and those which are called the valiaunt Tonnyes Then said they for what cause didst thou crye out so lowd what is it that thou hast séene or felt in our aduersarie whereby thou art so altered and perplexed that thou knowest not vnder what Captaine thou seruest I said they should bring me before the Generall of the Armie and there they should know that which they demaunded Presently thereupon one of the Tonnyes willed ten of the rest to bring me vnto the Generall meane while hee stayed behinde kéeping the watch with the number of ten thousand Tonnyes at the least I was excéeding glad to perceiue that they did vnderstand mee and sayd vnto my selfe He that shewed me this great grace maketh no man lame Thus we marched and at last as daye began to appeare wee approached néere vnto the place where the great Armie lay whereas I perceiued such an innumerable number of Tonnyes that I was abashed at the sight As soone as they knew those which led me they suffered vs to passe forward and beeing entered into the Generalls lodging one of my guard making humble reuerence declared vnto him where and in what manner they had found me that I being asked by Captaine Licio what I was I answered him that they should bring me before the Generall and for that cause they said they had brought me vnto his Honour The Captaine generall was an excellent Tonnie fiercer and greater in body than the rest he asked me who I was what was my name vnder what captaine I serued what I would haue séeing I desired to be brought before him Whereat I stood in a manner confused not knowing what name to saye I had although I had beene rightly baptized vnles I should say my name was Lazaro de Tormes neither could I better tell frō whence I was nor vnder what Captaine I serued by reason I was but newly transformed nor knew not the seas neither yet the large territories and the perticular names of the same in such sort that letting passe some of the questions by the General propounded vnto me I answered him thus My Lord your honour being so valiant as it is well knowen throughout the seas it seemeth a great disgrace vnto your Honour and vs all that one miserable weake man should defend himselfe so long gainst so puissant and mightie an Armie and the more considering his weake estate and abilitie and the great power of the Tonnies Saying further séeing that I am one of your Honors subiects and at your commaundement and of your Armie I here present my selfe with promise to get and deliuer vnto you his Armes and other things that he hath which if I doo not I desire for my reward that you commaund me presently to be cruely executed as a traitor Yet whatsoeuer I said I was sure I made him no promise to deliuer Lazaro de Tormes vnto him left I should bring a foole to bed This point proceeded not of mine owne mother wit but I learned it of my master at schoole Whereat the Generall tooke great pleasure to sée mee offer my selfe vnto such a péece of seruice by which meanes he desired not anie farther matter of me but presently making me answere said It is verie true that to auoyde the death of my souldiers I determined to holde a siege about that traitor and to take the man but if as thou saist thou dost aduenture thy selfe to enter the caue thou shalt be well rewarded for thy labour although it would gréeue me much that venturing thy person in the Kings seruice and mine thou shouldst loose thy life as others haue done before thée because I estéeme much and make great accompt of my valiant and stout Tonnyes and such as are more hardie than the rest I desire to preserue them before others as all good Captaines ought to doo My Lord sayd I let not your excellencie stand in feare of any danger that may happen vnto me for I hope to bring the matter to effect without the losse of one drop of my bloud Séeing it is so said hee it is surely a great péece of seruice for the which I meane to recompence thée well and for that it is day already I am desirous to sée how thou wilt accomplish that which thou hast promised Thereupon hee presently sent vnto all the Officers of the Field that they should march forwards vnto the place where the enemie lay It was a wonderfull thing to sée so great and mightie a campe to remoue and I suppose that whosoeuer had séene them would haue béen abashed The Generall caused me to go on the one side by
an ende of my enterprise Thou hast thy request said he Then I with no little shame and feare returned towards the caue thinking thereafter as it touched me néere to be wiser and circumspecter in my speach And approaching vnto the Caue I made as though I had bene striken and faining to retire I skipped sodeinly vnto the entery of the hole and tooke that with my mouth which at other times I vsed to doe with my handes which done I studied thinking with my selfe whether it were best for mee to enter into the Caue or to go and deliuer the Sword vnto the Generall to whome I had promised the same In the ende I considered that if I should go in I might peraduenture be accused of theft saying that I had eaten him séeing hee was not there to bee found which had bene a thing worthie of punishment At the last I turned my selfe vnto the Army the which I praied to help me because they had séene me recouer the sword and yet to shewe more courage hauing gotten it vpon the rocke then when I tooke it at the mouth of the Caue I skirmished with the same wreathing turning my mouth looking on all sides both backward and foreward and comming vnto the Generall with humble salutation holding the sword as well as I could by the hilts in my mouth I said Valiant Captain Behold here the Armes of our cruell enemy from this time forth there is no cause of feare why we should not enter into the Caue séeing he hath not any thing wherewith to defend the same You haue saide he done like a valiaunt Tonny and assure your selfe you shall be well rewarded for so great a péece of seruice and for because with so great valour and hardinesse you haue gotten the sword and that it séemeth vnto me you can better skill of it then the rest of vs I pray you holde it still vntill we haue gotten this vnhappie and wicked traitor into our hands With that an infinit nomber of the Tonnies went vnto the mouth of the Caue but yet not one of them durst be so bold to enter into the same because they feared that he was not without a poniard then I profered my selfe to be the first that wold venture for to enter so that some of them would follow and assist me and this I desired onely because I meant to haue witnesses of my innocency but such was the feare whiche they had of Lazarus that not one of them sought to follow me although the Generall promised great gifts vnto him that should second me The thing standing in this point the Generall asked mee what I thought best to bee done therein séeing not one of them was desirous to beare me companie in that dangerous entrance I answered that for his seruice I would venter to enter therein my selfe alone so they would assure mee the entrie and that they should not feare to stand by me Hée said it should be so and if so be that those which were there durst not doo it he promised to follow me himselfe In the meane time Capiaine Licio came vnto vs and said that he would enter in with me wherewith I began to skirmish on all sides of the caue with my sword and to giue diuers fierce prickes with the same and at the last skipped in crying with a lowd voyce Victoria Victoria God saue the the great sea with her great and puissant inhabitants of the same and confound those which dwell vpon the Land With these cries although but full euill fauouredly vttered Captaine Licio of whom I spake before entred after me who at that day wan much renowne and recouered with mee much credite in showing himselfe so hardie and valiant aboue the rest yet it séemed vnto me that one witnes was not sufficient to discharge mee and therefore not leauing the entrie of the caue I desired more helpe but all in vaine was my request for the diuell take them all not one of them durst once venter to enter And surely they were not greatly to be blamed therein for I assure yee in my conscience that I my selfe should haue done as much if I had thought the thing to bee as they tooke it for what should a man doo but speake the truth but for mee I entred therein as into mine owne house knowing very well before that there was not so much as a snayle within the same Then I began to animate them thereunto saying O mightie great and valiant Tonnyes show foorth this day your force and accustomed boldnes séeing that such an occasion is offered whereby you may win honour and renowne Are you not ashamed to show so little courage Know yee not that your Enemies will from hencefoorth estéeme but little of yee when they shall sée and vnderstand your small courage With these and other things spoken vnto them by mee the Generall himselfe although with more shame than otherwise entered in crying Peace peace by which words I vnderstood verie well that hee brought not all in with him séeing that in time of so great warres he proclaimed peace As soone as he was entred he willed the rest to enter which I thinke entred full euill against their wills but when they perceiued not poore Lazarus nor yet anie defence against them although I gaue great blowes and thrusts against the sides of the caue with my sword they were all amazed And the Generall was ashamed of the small companie that approached to helpe me and Captaine Licio CHAP. III. How after that Lazarus with all the Tonnyes had entered in the caue and finding nothing therein but Lazrroes cloathes there entred so manie that they thought to be smothered therein and what remedie Lazarus deuised for the same SEarch hauing béen made round about the Caue wee found the apparell of the valiant Tonny Lazarus de Tormes for they were left behinde me when I was turned into a fish yet when I saw them I was in no small feare doubting least my poore bodie had béen still within them and that the foule onely had béen turned into a Tonny but as God would I found not my selfe there and then I knew assuredly that both in bodie and soule I was turned into a fish Yet I was not well in my minde because neuerthelesse I felt no small paine and it gréeued mee in my verie flesh to sée those garments that had fitted my bodie so well beeing a man to bee so iniuriously torne and plucked in péeces by those which did it with so good a will and yet I was constrained to do the like my self because I would not séeme to vary from those of my company thereby offering occasion to be perceiued At this fight the Generall and the rest being astonished and looking rounde about verie circumspectly yet not without feare although they desired to méete with that which they founde after that they had well searched and compassed the litle Caue the Captaine Generall spake asking me what I