The Boys Hakluyt English Voyages of Adventure And Discovery
The Boys Hakluyt English Voyages of Adventure And Discovery
Edwin M Edwin Monroe Bacon
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A Cimaroon quickly pulled the sailor down and sat on him. But it was too late. The cavalier had caught sight of the white-shirted object, had recognized it as an Englishman of Drake's crew, and had put spurs to his horse and galloped off to warn the approaching treasurer's team of danger. Meeting it on the road the cavalier reported what he had seen, and his conjecture that Drake was in the neighbour- 244 Voyages of Adventure and Discovery hood for plunder of treasure teams to recompense him- s...elf for his failure at Nombre de Dios; and he persuaded the treasurer to turn his train out of the way, and let the others that were to follow pass first. Their loss, if "worse befel, " would be of far less account, while they would serve to discover the party in ambush. And just this happened. As the others with the lesser treasure reached the ambush the captains blew their whistles for the attack, and both teams were speedily taken; but the spoil, besides the provisions, netted not more than two "horse-loads" of silver, and Drake's game was fully discovered.
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