LOUD ANSON. 



CHAPTER XL. 



PIRATICAL VOYAGE UNDER GEORGE ANSON UNPARALLELED MORTALITY AR- 

 RIVAL AND SOJOURN AT JUAN FERNANDEZ — A PRIZE CAPTURE OF PAITA 



PREPARATIONS TO ATTACK THE MANILLA GALLEON DISAPPOINTMENT FOR- 

 TUNATE ARRIVAL AT TINIAN ROMANTIC ACCOUNT OF THE ISLAND A STORM 



ANSON'S SHIP DRIVEN OUT TO SEA THE ABANDONED CREW SET ABOUT 



BUILDING A BOAT RETURN OF THE CENTURION BATTLE WITH THE MANILLA 



GALLEON ANSON'S ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND THE PROCEEDS OF THE CRUISE. 



The statesmen of England had now become penetrated with 

 the idea that, in order to consolidate their territorial supremacy, 

 they must make their country the undisputed mistress of the 

 seas. War was declared against Spain in 1739, and the king 

 determined to attack that power in her distant settlements and 

 deprive her, if possible, of her possessions in America, and 

 especially in Peru. It was supposed that the principal resources 



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