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His rancour against me is the greater, I know, because of the wealth I got in the treasure-ship, to prevent which he tried to prohibit my leaving the island, through the withholding of a leave-ticket to me. His argument to the local authorities was that I had no rights, that I am a murderer and a mutineer, and confined to the island, though not on parole.
Again in '87 Drake obtained the leave of the Queen to harass Spain once more, and after robbing and burning all the vessels in Cadiz harbour, he stormed the forts at Faro, destroyed Armada stores at Corunna, and captured the great treasure-ship San Felipe.
"You are ready to undertake any thing. You do not value your life. There is one thing which is before us. It is desperate it is almost hopeless; but we are both ready to try it." "What is that?" "The message from the dead," said Louis, spreading before Frank that letter from the treasure-ship which he himself had so often read. "And are you going to try this?" "Yes." "How?" "I don't know.
"Ma'am, they say there has been a great engagement between the French and Spaniards, and the English particulars not known yet: but, they say, ten sail of the French line are taken, and four Spaniards blown up, and six Spanish men-of-war disabled, and a treasure-ship taken. Walsingham must have been in the engagement My horse!
Mustapha Bey, the treasurer and commander of the ship, fell before his sword, besides many others, whom he hardly saw or counted. The galley was soon his own, as well as another, which came to the rescue of the treasure-ship only to share its defeat. The booty which Alexander's crew secured was prodigious, individual soldiers obtaining two and three thousand ducats each.
'Isn't there the wreck of a treasure-ship somewhere farther west? I asked. 'They said a company was exploiting it. 'Quite right, said the commander, without a sign of embarrassment. 'I don't wonder you heard of it. It's one of the few things folk have to talk about in these parts.
With a favourable breeze he got away agreeably, and was clear of the harbour and cleaving northwards before sunset the Swallow leading the treasure-ship like a pilot. All was joy and hilarity; but there remained one small danger yet: they had raised their treasure unmolested, but could they bring it to Boston and on to England?
He had now, however, gained more precise information as to the spot where the Spanish treasure-ship had sunk; and, though as yet baffled, he was more confident than ever of the eventual success of his enterprise.
If the other ship's a treasure-ship, he went on to say, 'you know it would be a good deal better for our company; and so it might be well to find out. "I didn't need any spurring to make me go down again, for I was all on fire to know what was on board the other ship, which I was sure was English, having had a good opportunity of looking at it while I was down there.
In two years his two thousand have grown to four, and he misses no chance. But those days when Biatt and I went treasure-ship hunting were not without their trials. If we had failed, then no more could this land have been home or resting-place for us.
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