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Excerpt from The Life and Death of the Valiant and Renowned Sir Francis Drake: His Voyages and Discoveries in the West-Indies, and About the World; With His Noble and Heroick Acts
Againft th�s'tfmeroq, had ?ed from their Sp rca cruelty, and were b thigt time grown toa nation un' der two. Who acl'almoet furprifed it about the weeksb 1. Captain Dh'd�f, havmg leamedf What he couldtof themgfetthcfe Negroer on filor�, that: they mightgo to their Countrfeyi-men the Sjncrom, and to prevent any notice that they might give to Nombre' dc, dim of'his appmach5&fo baited his going thither. For which-end he difpofed of all his companies, leaving the three ihips and vel with Captain Rawfc, and chofe into his Pinnaces (making the Shallop one fifty three of his own company, and twenty/of Captain Rdwfe's: Pro yiding-fit arms for them: viz. Firepikes, twelve Pikag. Twenty four Muskets and Calievcrs, (he teen two'tmmpetsh Then leaving thew compahy; they arrived at the l?and of Cata'aaazr, . Where-landing early in. Ing', Captain Drake there trained his them their, feveralarms, 'weh hithertohe hadskcpt (cafe in good easkslencouragingthemto the cmwmwifiby Cl Drake. Them the Weaknefs of. The unwalleds, the unexpe�'tednefs of their coming and the great Riches, and honor that Was; to be gained ifthey elfe�ted it; And in the afternoon hefet bre de Dior, and betore-sun-fet, gat as far as Rio Fran-gafoza' om whence, heeping clofe to the lhore that they d; his, ifkovered bytthe Watch-houfe, ' they. Ues of the Point of the.bay, where he caufgzd rike a Hull, andto calf out their grapicre, till it was darka when night was comin ting fail, and rowinghhard and filently, they recovered the Point, of the Harbour purpofing not to attempt: the Town till Day-breake. Butgaptain Drake'hearing' that fome; ofhis mehxbegan to tglleofthe dificulty and danger of the enterprife, to put._-by'thefe conceitsyihe tooke the Opportunityet the tiling Moon to perfwade them that it was Day, .fo that they got to'the Town, an hormbefore theday brake.
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