. Devonshire characters and strange events. notprove to be as richly laden as had been anticipated. We need not follow his adventures in the privateer,though they are interesting enough, and give a livelypicture of the audacity of these venturers, till we cometo his capture. The Revenge was cruising about amongthe Canary Islands, when a Spanish vessel ran forTeneriffe from Palma, and was at once pursued. Shesped for Gomera, but unable to weather the point cameto anchor within half a cables length of the was a bark of sixty tons burthen, and as theRevenge drew more water and the capta
. Devonshire characters and strange events. notprove to be as richly laden as had been anticipated. We need not follow his adventures in the privateer,though they are interesting enough, and give a livelypicture of the audacity of these venturers, till we cometo his capture. The Revenge was cruising about amongthe Canary Islands, when a Spanish vessel ran forTeneriffe from Palma, and was at once pursued. Shesped for Gomera, but unable to weather the point cameto anchor within half a cables length of the was a bark of sixty tons burthen, and as theRevenge drew more water and the captain feared sunkenrocks, he ordered the yawl to be hoisted out and to bemanned with eleven hands. We were three hours after we left the ship beforewe got within musket-shot of the bark. Our masteraskd us if we were all willing to board her. Weanswered, one and all, we were. We saw twelve menashore, and made directly towards them. Our mastersaid, My boys, the barks our own, for these menbelongd to her, but have left her; let us give them one. ^a?fisJ f/^/a/^ 60/0/^40. Reproduced ft oiii the froiilislticce la The Li/c and Siirfrhiiif;Adventures 0/James [Iyatt, \iritlen by Uiiuselj; 1755 JAMES WYATT 109 volley, and then board the bark. We had two brassblunderbusses, mounted on swivels, in the bow of theboat. Our master steppd forward to one of them him-self, and orderd me to the other. We had no soonerdischarged the blunderbusses, but two or three hundredmen came from behind the rocks. We had been solong getting to the bark that the men belonging toher, unknown to us, had got out of her, gone upcountry, and brought these people to their blunderbusses being discharged, the men frombehind the rocks kept up a constant fire at us; and,at the very first fire, our master received a ball justabove his right eye, and another went almost throughmy right shoulder. We rowed directly to the lieutenant, myself, and four more leapt into her,and those that were in the boat
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