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"I think you will be confirmed in that opinion, sir, when you have heard Grenvile's own version of the occurrence, as I have," said Mr Seaton. "The whole affair appears to have been just one of those that no one could possibly have anticipated."
They found nothing but the bones of one man, slain, as they afterward learned, by the Indians. The rest had disappeared, and it was not till some time afterward that their countrymen learned any tidings of their fate. Ignorant, no doubt, of the altered feelings of the natives, Grenvile's men had lived carelessly, and kept no watch.
We know not whether he helped him in the third Guiana voyage in the same year, under Captain Berry, a north Devon man, from Grenvile's country; who found a 'mighty folk, who were 'something pleasant, having drunk much that day, and carried bows with golden handles: but failed in finding the Lake Parima, and so came home.
Right in front lie the galleons; and among them the 'Philip' and the 'Andrew, two of those who boarded the 'Revenge. This day there shall be a reckoning for the blood of his old friend; he is 'resolved to be revenged for the "Revenge," Sir Richard Grenvile's fatal ship, or second her with his own life'; and well he keeps his vow.
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