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Under Drake’s Flag

CHAPTER 9: Baffled
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The rest got off.

The Spaniards left twenty men to guard the boat, and with eighty others went up the country.

Half a league away they found some huts, and in these the treasures of gold and silver which the English had captured were discovered.
Satisfied with having recovered these, Captain Ortuga was about to return to the river with his men; when Oxenford, with the English and two hundred Simeroons, attacked them.

The Spaniards fought bravely, and the Simeroons would not stand against their fire.

The English struggled desperately.


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