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Updated: June 9, 2025
The rainy season had long set in, and skies overcast by great masses of slate-blue cloud surcharged with rain and electricity were no new thing to the Nonsuch's crew, but the aspect of the sky on this particular day was of an altogether different character.
" Harbour," resumed the secretary, reading, "`and sentenced by the Military Commandant to the galleys for life. Their names are as follows " "Stop," interrupted George again, and, fumbling in his pocket, he produced a document the one that Don Manuel Rebiera had furnished him with upon the first day of the Nonsuch's visit to San Juan and carefully unfolded it.
A few seconds later, as the Nonsuch was steering to intercept and order back to her anchorage the second of the escaping plate ships, first one and then the other of those same batteries opened fire, and that their ordnance was levelled against the English ship immediately afterward became apparent from the fact that several heavy shot came hurtling immediately overhead, one or two of which passed through the Nonsuch's canvas, but fortunately without inflicting any more serious damage.
Some five seconds later, the starboard broadside of the Nonsuch's ordnance, great and small, crashed out, one piece after another in rapid succession; and mingled with the roar of the guns there arose a dreadful chorus of shrieks and yells from the Spaniard's crowded decks.
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