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Page 82
... pinnaces were approaching by sea and he was keenly alert until the enemy entered the city , which was as the day began to break . In seven launches and four pinnaces and two small shallops the enemy attacked the fort where deponent was ...
... pinnaces were approaching by sea and he was keenly alert until the enemy entered the city , which was as the day began to break . In seven launches and four pinnaces and two small shallops the enemy attacked the fort where deponent was ...
Page 182
... pinnaces had been sunk . Three negroes who deserted from the English said that some English had been killed . No ... pinnaces and boats , to a total of more than 50 sail in all . Deponent could not count them because he was in the fort ...
... pinnaces had been sunk . Three negroes who deserted from the English said that some English had been killed . No ... pinnaces and boats , to a total of more than 50 sail in all . Deponent could not count them because he was in the fort ...
Page 199
... pinnaces back to the fleet and , since the large ships could not come up because of the bar and the fort was resisting , they returned to the fleet ; and in these pinnaces and in the frigates and barges which had remained with the fleet ...
... pinnaces back to the fleet and , since the large ships could not come up because of the bar and the fort was resisting , they returned to the fleet ; and in these pinnaces and in the frigates and barges which had remained with the fleet ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | xvii |
April 6 1585 | 8 |
Licentiate Aliaga to the Crown Xagua January 13 1586 | 16 |
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