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her approach, some of our men hailed her to come to anchor, and even
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But On Her Approach, Some Of Our Men Hailed Her To Come To Anchor, And Even Fired Upon Her, Which So Terrified The Men That They Got Into Their Canoes, Having First Set Her On Fire, On Which We Cut Our Cables And Got Out Of Her Way.

This fire-ship was constructed and managed by one Bond, who formerly deserted from us to the Spaniards.

While busied next morning in recovering our anchors, we discovered a whole fleet of canoes full of men, passing between Tabogilla and another isle. These proved to be French and English buccaneers, lately come from the North Sea across the isthmus of Darien, 200 of them being French and 80 English. These last were divides between our two ships, under Captains Davis and Swan; and the Frenchmen were put into our prize, named the Flower, under the command of Captain Gronet, their countryman, in return for which he offered commissions to Captains Davis and Swan, from the governor of Petite Goave, as it is the custom of the French privateers to carry with them blank commissions. Captain Davis accepted one, but Captain Swan had one already from the Duke of York.

Learning from these men that Captain Townley was coming across the isthmus of Darien with 180 Englishmen, we set sail on the 2d March for the gulf of San Miguel to meet Townley. This gulf is on the east side of the great Bay of Panama, in lat. 8 deg. 15' N. long.

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