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the English of an explosion if they attempted to board. The 

 engagement commenced at eight, and lasted an hour, after which 

 she struck and surrendered! She bore the imposing name of 

 Nuestra Senora de la Encarnacion Disenganio, and mounted 

 twenty guns. Nine of her men were killed and nine wounded. 



NATIVES BREAKING TURTLES' EGGS. 



Of the men of the Duke — the only ship of Rogers' fleet en- 

 gaged — but two were wounded, Captain Rogers himself, who 

 lost a portion of his upper jaw and two of his teeth, being one. 



