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That seems to point either to his death or the disbandment of his crew. "Now, Cary says he was here in 1582, in the summer, and mentions that that date was just after the time when Leirya was committing such atrocities on the high seas. There is what is presumably a date at the beginning of our document, and that date if such it is is 1581, the year before Cary came to these parts.
Anxious to capture Jose Leirya alive, Cavendish perhaps not too well advisedly laid his ship alongside the schooner, and poured his men on to the pirate's decks. Seeing this, the captain of the Elizabeth, not to be behindhand, did the same.
The pirates were fighting now with the fury of desperation, and, encouraged by the bull voice of Jose Leirya who seemed to bear a charmed life, they prepared to form up into line and attempt with one furious charge to sweep the English from the decks of their beloved schooner.
This man came aboard with about a hundred others; and I perceived at once although our jailers did not seem to notice the fact that there was some kind of arrangement or understanding between Jose Leirya and a number of the new galley-slaves. What it meant I did not know until afterwards.
He had always trusted me, and did so still, and I had a key that fitted the lock of his cabin. One day we sighted a ship; and, as it fell calm, the boats were ordered out to pull to her and capture her. Nearly all hands went, including Leirya himself, but I remained behind to help look after the schooner.
They took another look round, and this time they saw Jose Leirya and his crew down on the beach, preparing to get into their boat. "We'd better not leave this here spot until we see 'em up-anchor and get well away," advised Jake. "For all we know they may come ashore again, and if they was to do that a'ter we'd left our hidin'-place, 'twould be all up with us."
Laborde, indeed, arrived the same night at Batalha, eight miles distant, but on receiving the news in the morning that the British had already occupied Leirya, he advanced no farther.
The papers I have not examined; I merely looked at them to make certain that the cipher was there, and, finding that it was, I troubled no further. But you had better examine them, as there may be something of value among them. I told you in my yarn that we had a driver on the galley named Alvarez, who left her before Jose Leirya came aboard, or if I did not, I intended to.
Herrara's letter contained his promotion to lieutenant-colonel, with an order to remain under Terence's command; also fourteen commissions, two giving Bull and Macwitty the Portuguese rank of major, the remaining being captain's commissions for the twelve troopers. Two days later they reached Leirya.
Also, they believed that, by taking the longer course, there would be more likelihood of their falling in with that most ferocious and bloody pirate, Jose Leirya, as he was called, or Jose de Leirya, as he loved to call himself for he was said to claim descent from a grandee of Spain, although those who knew the man were well aware that his birth and parentage were obscure.
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