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These troops will, of course, be commanded by their own officers, while Captain Yago will continue to command the ship. But, being a merchant seaman, he has had no experience of landing troops; and that is where your services will prove of value, especially should any resistance be offered.
Yago de Leon, in the Caracas, at which place Don Guzman had been born.
Some short five years more, and the great Armada will have come and gone; and then that avenging storm, of which they, like Oxenham, Hawkins, and Drake, are but the avant-couriers, will burst upon every Spanish port from Corunna to Cadiz, from the Canaries to Havana, and La Guayra and St. Yago de Leon will not escape their share.
"Within those mountains, three thousand feet above our heads," said Drew, the master, "lies Saint Yago de Leon, the great city which the Spaniards founded fifteen years agone." "Is it a rich place?" asked Cary. "Very, they say." "Is it a strong place?" asked Amyas. "No forts to it at all, they say. The Spaniards boast, that Heaven has made such good walls to it already, that man need make none."
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