Within twenty-four hom's of the fight, the home-coming carracks fell in with the fleet of Don Alonso de ]3azan, and by it were safely -convoyed to Spain. Lord Thomas Howard's squadron, after maintaining a dista. nt fight until nightfM1, got away. On its homeward passage it m;[de several valuable prizes. A little force of victuMlers, fittcd out in London to carry supplies to it, had st[iled on August 17th, but hal been dispersed by bad weather, and obliged to put back. Some of the vessels, however, before they reached port, picked up three rich pzes in the Bay, and took one of them into Plymouth. That year, 1591, saw some other vew gallant actions, which, .although not strictly naval, must he here recorded. Three English ships and a barque, belonging to Sir George Carey, who wt[s ;tftcr-

vards second Lord Htmsdon, were in the West Indies, engaged

apparently in trade, when, off Cape Corrientes, they fell in with six Spanish vessels, four of which ;vere large. The English promptly t[ttacked the three ships, t;vo of which were named Hq>cwcll and Swallow, engaging one, and the barque, named the Contct, en- gaging the other of the two biggest Spaniards. After some fighting, the three English ships, for some reasons not fully explttined, drew off, leaving the little Co, tett to her fate. For three hours, after she had got away from her original opponent, she fought the two smallest Spanish vessels. She then maintained a rtmning fight with two of the large and one of the small ships, endearouting meanwhile to get into shallow water by using her sweeps. The Spaniards, when they could no longer follow her with their deeper craft, donhie-manned the small vessel, and towed and rowed her after the Cote,t. The Englishman vas being slowly forced between the big ships and the shore, and was in a most precarions position, when a lucky shot from her temporaqly disabled one of the larger Spaniards. This accident freed her, and enabled her to make an offing; but no sooner had she done so than she fell in with two fresh Spanish galleys, one of which presently tried to board. But the Co,tc, t drove off her enemies on two occasions, and at last, after a contest vhich lasted, with inteuissions, from 7 .. until 11 r.,., made her escape with a loss, strange to say, of but two men vounded, though her hxfil and qgging we cut to pieces. She had no more than tventy-three officers and men on board, and of these only thirteen took part in the action, the rest being below)

11akluyt, pt. iii. 565. The Contcnt's mater was Nicholas Liste. 

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