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ten hired assassins* armed with various kinds of deadly 
weapons. But the captain, as I have stated before, 
being a man of most resolute mind, defended himself in 
the most courageous manner against their united arms- 
'll e struggled against them, unarmed as he was, with 
amazing strength and resolution, until he fell, covered 
with wounds ; between forty and fifty mortal injuries 
being found afterwards in various parts of his body 9 
He defended himself with his clenched hands against 
their bayonets, swords, and choppers, for his hands and 
arms were found shockingly mutilated, his left arm 
being cut to the bone in many places, while his chest 
and abdomen exhibited frightful and numberless wounds 
—and it is even stated, that several of these were in- 
flicted upon him, by these sanguinary, but still cowardly 
fiends, as he lay expiring upon the ground. Thus was 
the life of a brave Englishman wantonly sacrificed by a 
gang of hired wretches, who so unworthily bore the 
name of men may this recital act as a warning to the 
Intemperate. 
I have heard that the governor, who was a Spaniard, 
was punished, in some way or other, by his own govern- 
ment at home, for the part which he took in exciting his 
guard to commit the horrid act, and it is even said at 
Guam to this day, that he was himself among them at 
the time, and prompted them on the spot ; for which, if 
he did not receive any punishment on his arrival in 
Spain, certain it is that he was deprived of the govern- 
ment of the island. 
I have related the particulars of this atrocious case 
