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and fell to rifling ; but finding the abo\re-menti-i 

 oned People in the Hold, and feveral Er?glijh Goods, 

 they confulted Lotv the Captain thereupon, and 

 without examining any further, the Refoliition 

 pafsM to kill all the Company • and the Pyraces, 

 without any Ceremony, ' fell/ Pell-Mell to Execu- 

 tion with their Swords, Cutlafhes, Poll-Axes and 

 Piftols, cutting, flalhing and Ihooting the poor 

 Spaniards at a fad Rate. Some of the miferable 

 Creatures jump'd down into the Hold, but could 

 iiot avoid the Maffacre; they met Death every 

 where, for if they efcaped it from one Hand, they 

 were fure to perifh by another ^ the only Prolpeil 

 they had of Life, was to fly from the Rage of 

 thofe mercilefs Men, and to trufl: to the more 

 merciful Sea ; and accordingly a great many leapM 

 over-board,' and fwam for the Shore \ bnt Lor^ 

 perceiving it, ordered the Canoa to be mann'd, and 

 lent in purfuit of them, by which Means feveral 

 of the poor unhappy Men were knoclc'd in the 

 H^ad in the Water, as they were endeavouring to 

 get to Land ; however, about 12 of them did 

 reach the Shore, but in a miferable Condition, be- 

 ing very much wounded, and what became of 

 them afterwards was not known, except one, who 

 ^hile the Py rates were at their Sports and Paftimes 

 afhore, finding himfelf very weak and fainting with 

 his Wounds, and not knowing where to go for 

 Help and Relief, in this Extremity, he came back 

 to them, and begg'd for God fake, inthemoft ear- 

 neft Manner poffible, that they would give him 

 Quarters upon which, one of the Villains toofc 

 ' hold of him, andft.id, G—^dr — -^n him^ he would 

 give him good Quarters^ prefently^ and made the poor 

 Spaniard kneel down oh his Knees, then taking his 

 Fufil, put the Muzzle of it into his Mouth, and 

 fired down his Throat. 'Twas thought the reft 

 did^ not long furvive their miferable Condition, 



