2 3 § The c DiftreJfes and Adventures 

 and kept dancing about it till the Body was 

 confiimed to Allies. With the deplorable 

 Cataftropheof this unhappy Gentleman their 

 Fury ceafed, and they attempted to put no 

 other Perfon to Death ; but declared, that 

 had they met with more Spaniards in the 

 Town, they would have ferved them all 

 in the fame Manner. After this, the Ene- 

 my, being in Number between two and 

 three hundred (Men and Women) came to 

 the Governor's Houfe, who was no better 

 prepared to receive them, than the reft of* 

 the People ; and w r hen they had ranfack'd 

 the greateft Part of it, and had taken out 

 fuch Things as they liked belt, they at laft 

 eame into the Room where I lay fick, and 

 the firft Queftion they asked me was, what 

 Countryman I was ? I quickly made An- 

 fwer that I was an Engli/hman, who had 

 been taken by Spanifh Pirates, and cruelly 

 ufed by them, and that I was now waiting 

 for an Opportunity to get home to my own 

 Country. Then they alfured me they would 

 do me no Injury ; but that, on the contrary, 

 if I would put myfelf under their Protefliony 

 and go along with them, they would do me 

 all the Service in their Power, and would 



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