CHAPTER XIX. Part 2.And in Calais roads the great fleet--sailing slowly all next day incompany with the English, without a shot being fired on either side--atlast dropped anchor on Saturday afternoon, August 6th.Here then the Invincible Armada had arrived at its appointed resting-place. Here the great junction--of Medina Sidonia with the Duke of Parmawas to be effected; and now at last the curtain was to rise upon the lastact of the great drama so slowly and elaborately prepared.That Saturday afternoon, Lord Henry Seymour and his squadron of sixteenlay between Dungeness and Folkestone; waiting the approach of the twofleets. He spoke several-coasting vessels coming from the west; but theycould give him no information--strange to say--either of the Spaniardsor, of his own countrymen,--Seymour; having hardly three days' provisionin his fleet, thought that there might be time to take in supplies; andso bore into the Downs. Hardly had he been there half an hour; when apinnace arrived from the Lord-Admiral; with orders for Lord Henry'ssquadron to hold itself in readiness. There was no longer time forvictualling, and very soon afterwards the order was given to make sail