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Updated: May 1, 2025

Down in the town, almost at the same moment, the musketry opened in a long roaring roll which never slackened. Ringrose's party waited for no further signal, but at once engaged, running in under the guns and hurling their firepots through the embrasures. The grenades were damp, or badly filled, or had been too long charged.

John Masefield - On the Spanish Main: Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.

It didn't appear to prove that he would, his also observing Lady Ringrose's empty box without making an encouraging comment upon it. Laura waited for him to remark that her sister obviously would turn up now; but no such words fell from his lips. He must either like Selina's being away or judge it damningly, and in either case why didn't he speak?

Henry James - A London Life and Other Tales

"Indeed, to give our enemies their due, no men in the world did ever act more bravely than these Spaniards." Ringrose's canoa was the first to second Captain Sawkins. She ran close in, "under Peralta's side," and poured in a blasting full volley through her after gun-ports. A scrap of blazing wad fell among the red-clay powder jars in the after magazine.

John Masefield - On the Spanish Main: Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.

The curious will find the details of the case on page 121, of the 1684 edition of Ringrose's journal. John Watling began his captaincy in very godly sort, by ordering his disciples to keep holy the Sabbath day. Sunday, "January the ninth, was the first Sunday that ever we kept by command and common consent, since the loss and death of our valiant Commander Captain Sawkins."

John Masefield - On the Spanish Main: Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.

They had marched "heavy," with their guns and bags of dollars; and this in the rainy season. This man may have been the Spanish Indian. A note in Ringrose's narrative alludes to the capture of one of Dampier's party by the Spanish soldiers, and this may have been the man meant.

John Masefield - On the Spanish Main: Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.

Ringrose's Journal. Ringrose's MSS., Sharp's MSS., in the Sloane MSS. Arica The South Sea cruise On 23rd April 1680, "that day being dedicated to St George, our Patron of England," the canoas arrived off Panama. "We came," says Ringrose, "before sunrise within view of the city of Panama, which makes a pleasant show to the vessels that are at sea."

John Masefield - On the Spanish Main: Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.