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enemy_n	advance_v	army_n	march_v	1,313	5	8.1705	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49725	A Letter from a gentleman of the Lord Ambassador Howard's retinue, to his friend in London dated at Fez, Nov. 1, 1669 wherein he gives a full relation of the most remarkable passages in their voyage thither, and of the present state of the countries under the power of Taffaletta, emperour of Morocco : with a brief account of the merchandizing commodities of Africa : as also the manners and customs of the people there.	S. L., Gentleman of the Lord Ambassador Howard's retinue.	1670 (1670)	Wing L61; ESTC R5130	24,443	38

The occasion of his Misfortune was this He had sent into Portugal for Lime and Materials for the Fortifications The Ships being not yet arrived and that Party of Men that came from the Guard wanting imployment he resolved to make some execution with them upon a Wood that did serve as a Retreat unto some stragling Moors who from thence did kill our Scouts undiscovered In order to their going out he dispatches several Run-aways of the Moors that lived in the Town to discover if any Party was thereabouts to keep Guard They returned with this information that no Moors were to be seen round about the Country The unfortunate General believes them yet he had a presentiment of his misfortune and specially because it was the same day of the year that the English had lost six hundred men massacred under their Walls by Gayland in person Therefore he was often heard that morning to say Remember Gentlemen that this is the Third of May he did discover some kind of apprehension which one Major Knightly laboured to overcome by offering himself to lead out the Party but he would not be thought to be less daring than any man therefore he adventures out most of his men being fitter to encounter with boughs and shrubs than with an Enemy for they were more armed with Hatchets than with Muskets He was no sooner advanced into the Wood but immediately there appear as many Alhags as Trees Gayland's Army of Foot and Horse it seems had marched all night from Alcazor and as some say he had an intention to conclude a Peace This appearance strook such a fear into our men that they minded more how to save themselves by flight than to fight but being about three miles from Tangier and many thousand Horse in the Valley they were all cut off to three men who recovered the Sea and hid themselves in Rocks until hunger forced them to adventure to Tangier again According to the Moors information some of our men did fell their lives at a deer rate about forty rallied in a place where the Horse could never come and began such a desperate fight with the Foot that filled the Wood that as many of their men ended their daies as of ours Had Gayland made use of his Victory and assaulted the Town it had yielded without resistance the remainder of the Garrison was so astonished at this Defeat Our Horse it seems were then Commanded by an old Souldier that was grown rich and knew how to save his own Pate Therefore they were not concerned in this fight but as standers by and lookers on Had the three Troops advanc'd out of the Lines they might have saved some of our Men. My Friend having ended his Relation we went from the sight of this unhappy place unto Charles Fort and to the Decline of a Hill where he told me that some of our men to the number of three or four encountred with a Troop of Moors and took from them their Colours a Dishonour that had never happened to them before in the space of twenty years We continued our walk round the outtermost Lines and there I took notice of the Wisdom and great Skill of my Lord Tiveot in the Art of Fortification Nothing could be better begun and were it continued the City might stand in defiance of any Enemy We had here very pleasant sights into the neigbouring Valleys that are all covered with the natural Tapestry of Flowers and green Grass for this is the first Spring of the Year the time that the dry Land of Africa yields most excellent Herbs fit for all uses Now when the first Rains do fall I took notice of nothing else worthy your knowledge but of a wild Boar of a strange bigness a little after the Rain had wet the ground he was turning it up to seek for some dry Roots fit for food he was at some distance from us yet I could judge him to be about five or six foot high a desperate enemy if angered since I have encountered some of a lesser size and found them to be full of Courage and Strength We saw also some ruined Walls the ancient Reliques of Tangier's large extent It reach'd according to all probability about five or six miles in length My Friend did entertain me with many excellent Relations of the several Affairs and Transactions of this Place which I will reserve for our next Meeting I must not forget one Story that he affirmed to be true and which I had afterwards from other persons That in the fatal year of 66 the Portugueses the Dean and Canons of the Cathedral Church of Tangier began to rejoyce and to feast their Friends in the Moneths of March and April and being questioned about this unusual Mirth they said it was because the time was now come when Don Sebastian King of Portugal who was reported to have been slain near Alcazar should return from his wandring up and down Africa And that he should enter again by the same Gate that let him out it is now stopt up at the East end of the City joining to the Sea This old Tale they did believe so assured that several of them began to prepare an Entertainment for his solemn Reception in their Covent and did shew their Book of Prophesies to confirm this Belief but either these ignorant Fools are mistaken about the time or the good Prince hath forgot his way home again for he hath not yet paid them any Visit that I could hear of I had the Curiosity to see the Mould in the next place It is thirty yards broad at the top and it is built about 300 or 350 yards in the Sea At the end some great Guns are planted that command the Harbour and that carry over the Bay A Story was told to me by the Serjeant of the guard that will please you About the Moneth of April last in a dark night about Eleven of the Clock the Souldiers upon the Guard heard such fearful Outcries and Shouts that they were all astonished for it being at such a distance from the Town and such strict Guards being kept at all the Avenues that none could pass to them they could not imagin what was the matter until there appear'd unto them a great Giant attended by lesser shapes some like Men others like Cats others like Dogs The Centry asks Who 's there and is answered with silence he threatens Death with his Gun but the Appearances remained unmoveable until the Serjeant with his Guard was allarm'd with the Centry's angry Speeches and then they began to dance about and to offer them many Affronts and to fill the Air with fearful shrieks and Cries a long while The next morning all the Guard protested before the Governour that it was no Illusion and that they had been grievously disturbed that night but none would credit their Relation until the next night that there happened so violent a storm that 100 yards of the Mould were carried and