This letter is
as follows.
I answer two of your Grace's letters in this: one dated July,
six hundred and one, and the other July, six hundred and
two. In both of them your Grace relates to me the shipwreck
that befell you and how you saved yourself by swimming. Long
before I saw your Grace's letters, I had learned of your
mishap, whereat I was very anxious and even quite grieved;
because of what was reported here, I imagined that your Grace
had a part in it. Consequently, I was singularly overjoyed
at the assurance that your Grace still possessed life and
health. Having them, one can conquer other things; and
without them human treasure has no value. By way of Flandes
(whence ships come daily to this island), I learned much,
nay, all the event, although not so minutely. For Oliver de
Nort, who was the Dutch general, with whom the engagement
occurred, arrived safely in Holanda, with eight men--and he
made nine--and without money.
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