A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume X - By Robert Kerr


















































































































 -  And, on my side, I became alarmed
lest their dreadful apprehensions might stir them up to some desperate
attempt, they - Page 820
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And, On My Side, I Became Alarmed Lest Their Dreadful Apprehensions Might Stir Them Up To Some Desperate Attempt, They Being Eighty In Number, While We Were Not At This Time Above Seventeen On Board, And When Altogether Only Twenty-Five That Could Stand On Our Legs.

I was therefore compelled to appear somewhat stern, in ordering all our prisoners into the stern gallery, except the nobleman and a few of the chiefs, while we kept a strict guard in the great cabin.

The Spanish gentlemen lamented the murder of our men, and their own hard fate, in having been in some measure witnesses, and let fall some expressions, by which I perceived they were afraid I meant to shew some severities to their people on this occasion. Having a good interpreter between us, I assured them I was not of any such revengeful disposition, and besides, that the laws of my country would restrain me, if I were, as I acted by my king's commission, whose orders strictly forbid all acts of inhumanity or oppression towards our prisoners; on which assurance they might rest satisfied of their safety. In reply to this, they begged me to think myself secure, as to themselves and countrymen, now my prisoners, declaring on their honour that they would make no attempt against us, and that they could never make a sufficient return for the generous treatment I had given them. Notwithstanding this declaration, I took measures to secure our numerous prisoners of the meaner sort; for which purpose, after taking out of the Holy Sacrament all her jerked beef that remained fit for use, I placed them in that vessel, under the command of Espina, former commander of the Conception after the death of Desorio.

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