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"The spirit of vengeance, ambition, and other passions had become so violent and deep-rooted among the Spaniards," says Abbad, "that God ordained their chastisement in various ways." The removal of the capital from its swampy location to the islet which it now occupies was another source of dissension.
Abbad states that a certain Count or Duke Estren, an English commander, with a fleet of 22 ships and a body of landing troops appeared before San Juan and demanded its surrender, but that, before the English had time to land, a violent hurricane occurred which stranded every one of the British ships on Bird Island.
He had been secretary to King Philip I, and according to Abbad, was intended by Ferdinand as future governor of San Juan; but Señor Acosta, the friar's commentator, remarks with reason, that it is not likely that the king, who showed so much tact and foresight in all his acts, should place a young man without experience over an old soldier like Ponce, for whom he had a special regard.
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