Sir JOHN, contrariwise, made signs of amity unto them by advancing a white flag, a common token of peace: which was answered again of them with the like. Whereupon ensued intercourses of good friendship; and pledges were taken on both sides, the Captain of the town for them and Captain CAULFIELD for ours. So that whatsoever our men wanted, which that place could supply, either in fresh water, victuals, or the like, was very willingly granted [_i.e. for payment_] by the inhabitants; and good leave had they to refresh themselves on shore, as much and as oft as they would, without restraint. [Sidenote: News of the East Indian Carracks.] At this Santa Cruz, Sir JOHN BURROUGH was informed that indeed there was among them no expectation of any Fleet to come from the West: but from the East, that no longer since than three days before his arrival [_i.e._ 18th June 1592] a Carrack was passed by for Lisbon, and that there were four Carracks more behind, of one consort [_company or Fleet_]. Sir JOHN, being very glad of this news, stayed no longer on shore, but presently embarked himself: having only in company a small Bark, of 60 tons [? the _Phœnix_, see page 255], belonging to one Master HOPKINS of Bristol. In the meanwhile that these things thus passed at Flores; part of the rest of the English Fleet, which Sir JOHN BURROUGH had left upon the coast of Spain, drew also towards the Azores. And whereas he quickly, at sea, had discovered one of the Carracks [the _Santa Cruz_]: the same evening, he might descry two or three of [GEORGE CLIFFORD] the Earl of CUMBERLAND's ships [_two of them were the_ Tiger _and the_ Sampson], whereof one Master NORTON was Captain [_or as_ _we should now say, Commodore_]; which having, in like sort, kenned the Carrack, pursued her by that course which they saw her to run towards the Islands. But on no side was there any way made, by reason of a great calm which yielded no breath to spread a sail. Insomuch that (fitly to discover her what she was; of what burden, force, and countenance) Sir JOHN BURROUGH took his boat, and rowed the space of three miles, to make her [out] exactly; and, being returned, he consulted with the better sort of the Company then present, upon the boarding [of] her in the morning. But a very mighty storm arising in the night, the extremity thereof forced them all to weigh anchors; yet their care was such in wrestling with the weather, not to lose the Carrack: [so] that, in the morning (the tempest being qualified, and our men bearing again with the shore), they might perceive the Carrack very near the land; and the Portugals confusedly carrying on shore such things as they could, [in] any manner of way, convey out of her. And seeing the haste our men made to come upon them; [they] forsook her. [Sidenote: A Carrack, called the _Santa Cruz_, set on fire.]