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eighty fettkments ; but. the (lofs of. regular feafons occafioiied its 

 dclertion. The hamlet at Yallah's Bay coiiiilb of a few Icattered 

 Jioufes, near the church, which is a very iniall building, though 

 large enough for the pariftiioncrs ; the rector's tlipend 106/. per 

 mitium. The (hipptny,T places are, Yallah's Bay, and Cow Bayy.r.At 

 the former, there is anchorage, for large (hips; but at the lattei: 

 only fmall velicls can:, lie..' - Yallah's Bay is flieltered from the 

 breezes and Norths by a point of land. But no fliipping c;'.n lie 

 with fafcty at either of- Chele places in a ftrong-. Southerly wind; 

 on. account. of the prodigious. fwell which fets in.. Gow Bay is. re- 

 markable for having been the fcene of ain extraordinary a6tion in 

 the year 1681; when Sir Henry Morgan, the governor, having 

 intelligence that one Everfon, a famous Dutch pirate, rid there 

 with a floop and a barqua longa, manned with about one hundred def- 

 perate fellows, difpatched a floop with fifty men, befides officers, 

 in queft of him. On the firfl of February the governor's armed 

 veffel attacked the pirate, and after fo'me refinance, in which the 

 Dutch captain was killed, got pofleffion of the floop. The bark 

 cut her cable, and efcaped by outfailing her purfuer. . The piratical 

 crew, who were almoft all of them Englifli, Sir Henry fent to 

 the governor of Carthagena, to receive punifliment for all the out- 

 rages they had committed upon the Spaniards. In this he. was 

 thought by fome to have gone too far ; but he was willing perhaps 

 to convince the Spaniards, by this facrifice, that he knew how to 

 difl:inguifli between hoftilities carried on under a lawful commiflion, 

 and a£ls of lawlefs piracy ; and that he was determined to keep the 

 treaty with the Spaniards inviolate on his part. In 1694, twelve 

 fail of the fleet, under command of Du Cafle, anchored in this 

 bay, landed their men, and plundered and burnt all before them, 

 for feveral miles i killed the cattle; drove whole flocks of fheep 

 into houfes, and then fired them. They put feveral of the pri- 

 foners they took to torture, murdered others in cold blood, and 

 committed the mofl: fliocking barbarities. Some days afterwards, 

 feveral of the fleet being forced out to fea by the violence of the 

 wind, which drove their anchors home, the commanding officer 

 of the militia in this quarter fell upon their flraggling parties on 

 flioie, flew ma:iy of them, and forced the reft to take Ihelter oa 



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