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Cannons and culverins, sakers and falcons, rent the air; then the Cygnet, having the wind of the Spaniard, laid her aboard, and the harquebusiers, caliver, and crossbow-men also began to speak. Together with the great guns they spoke to such effect that the fight became very deadly.
He bowed, then stood at his full height, while Baldry sufficiently bethought himself to in some sort return the salute, even to give grudging, half insolent acknowledgment of the debt he owed the Cygnet.
The ship remained in Cygnet Bay until March 12th, and during that time the vessel was hove down and repaired. Dampier's observations on the aboriginal inhabitants during his stay is summed up in his description of the natives whom he saw, and who were, he says, "the most miserable people in the world.
After this adventure the buccaneers determined to separate, and Captain Swan proposed to his crew to cross the Pacific, and to return home by India. Dampier, who had long wished to get free from the lawless band, was among the first to agree to the proposal, and leaving the Bachelor's Delight, he joined the Cygnet. It was necessary, however, first to victual the ship.
Their squadron now consisted of ten sail, but the Bachelor's Delight and Cygnet were the only well-armed vessels, while the Spanish fleet amounted to fourteen, two of which carried forty guns, one thirty-six, another eighteen, one eight, and two fire-ships, all supplied with numerous crews.
"It hath been a wonderful night," he said. "Look, how great is the ring about the moon! and the air after the storm blows from far countries.... They have come to me one after another all the men of the Cygnet, and the Phoenix, and the land force. Henry Sedley sat beside me, with his arm about my shoulder; and Captain Robert Baldry and I have clasped hands, foregoing our quarrel.
Even such is wealth unto the wisest; wealth at its purest source, exponent of labour and of mind. But, to the frequent fool, heaped with foulest dross for the cygnet of Pactolus and those golden sands, read the hippopotamus wallowing in the Niger, and smothered in a bay of mud. There was no will found: it is likely Mrs.
"It was I who, when they tormented me, told them all. Hang me now, John Nevil, in the starlight." The Admiral's lips moved, but there came from them no sound, nor was there sound in the cabin of the Mere Honour. Not the Cygnet or the Phoenix were more quiet far away, far below, on the gray levels of the sea. At last a voice Ambrose Wynch's broke the silence that had grown too great to bear.
So many men of that land took ship and went forth upon the seas to seek other homes, and they came to the land of the Scots. They were adventurous and valiant men, who took to conquest and sea roving as a cygnet takes to the water.
Wherefore I tacked and stood to the east, and the rather, because I had reason to suppose this to be the passage we came through in the Cygnet mentioned in my Voyage round the World; but I was not yet sure of it because we had rainy weather, so that we could not now see the land so well as we did then.
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