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 and fell to rifling; but finding the above-mentioned People in the Hold, and everal Englih Goods, they conulted Low the Captain thereupon, and without examining any further, the Reolution pas’d to kill all the Company; and the Pyrates, without any Ceremony, fell Pell-Mell to Execution with their Swords, Cutlahes, Poll-Axes and Pitols, cutting, lahing and hooting the poor Spaniards at a ad Rate. Some of the mierable Creatures jump’d down into the Hold, but could not avoid the Maacre; they met Death every where, for if they ecaped it from one Hand, they were ure to perih by another; the only Propect they had of Life, was to fly from the Rage of thoe merciles Men, and to trut to the more merciful Sea; and accordingly a great many leap’d over-board, and wam for the Shore; but Low perceiving it, ordered the Canoa to be mann’d, and ent in puruit of them, by which Means everal of the poor unhappy Men were knock’d in the Head in the Water, as they were endeavouring to get to Land; however, about 12 of them did reach the Shore, but in a mierable Condition, being very much wounded, and what became of them afterwards was not known, except one, who while the Pyrates were at their Sports and Patimes ahore, finding himelf very weak and fainting with his Wounds, and not knowing where to go for Help and Relief, in this Extremity, he came back to them, and begg’d for God ake, in the mot earnet Manner poible, that they would give him Quarters; upon which, one of the Villains took hold of him, and aid, and made the poor Spaniard kneel down on his Knees, then taking his Fuil, put the Muzzle of it into his Mouth, and fired down his Throat. ’Twas thought the ret did not long urvive their mierable Condition,