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We sent Captain Ferne two hundred pieces-of-eight, and to his men forty pieces-of-eight, they being very careful of our goods, the most of which he brought. We sent Captain Berkeley a hundred pieces-of-eight, and to his men twenty; he carried part of our horses, as did Captain Utber, to whom we sent a like sum.
On the 19th of March, we took our leave of Cadiz, where we gave at our coming away, to persons that attended on us in several offices, two hundred and eighty pieces-of-eight. We were accompanied to the water- side in the same manner.
Mary to Madrid, and taking leave of all the company, we gave one hundred pieces-of-eight to the servants of the family, and fifty pieces-of-eight to the Duke's coachman and footmen.
They slashed the head of Jenkins, his left ear almost off. Order had been given, 'Scalp him! but as he had no hair, they omitted that; merely brought away the wig, and slashed: still no confession, nor any pieces-of-eight. They hung him up to the yard-arm, actual neck-halter, but it seems to have been tarry, and did not run: still no confession.
Upon Thursday the 29th of April, we took our leave of the Marquis and his lady, giving one hundred and eighty pieces-of-eight among his family. The night we lay at Yllescas, and on the 30th we came to Ballecas, where we found a house provided for us. Here the King's entertainment ceased, and we provided for all the accommodations of our family, the bare house only excepted.
There, for two or three pieces-of-eight, he got a horse, and soon by that means escaped to Kirkwall, a market town and chief of the Orkneys, about twelve miles from the place where the ship lay.
At last my grandfather asked: "What do you see?" The other's lips moved, and an unintelligible whisper reached me. "Ay, that's it, that's it," said the captain, and sent a quick, searching look about the room. "Doubloons pieces-of-eight Spanish pillar-dollars doubloons, doubloons! That is what it would likely be made up of, eh? But where try to see that where?"
He sent me a very rich present of perfumes, skins, gloves, and purses embroidered, with other nacks of the same kind. Sir John Lawson being now ready to depart from Cadiz, we presented him with a pair of flagons, one hundred pounds, and a tun of Luzena wine, which cost us forty pounds, and a hundred and forty pieces-of-eight for his men.
The duties of ships trading from thence to Japan, amount to 300,000 Xeraphins, at 10 per cent, being about equal to as many pieces-of-eight, or Spanish dollars . The yearly expence of the garrison and repairs of the fortifications is above 40,000 ducats. A similar sum is paid yearly for duties at the fair of Quantung, or Canton.
Tore up his hatches; plunged down, seeking logwood, hides, pieces-of-eight; found none, not the least trace of contraband on board of Jenkins. They brought up his quadrants, sextants, however; likewise his stock of tallow candles: they shook and rummaged him, and all things, for pieces-of-eight; furiously advised him, cutlass in hand, to confess guilt.
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