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In November , 1595 , the Spanish Government heard how the notorious English pirate Guatteral , " after having caused much trouble and injury to the Isle of Trinidad and its inhabitants , ” had entered the Orinoco .
In November , 1595 , the Spanish Government heard how the notorious English pirate Guatteral , " after having caused much trouble and injury to the Isle of Trinidad and its inhabitants , ” had entered the Orinoco .
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And when emissaries from San Thomé itself ( which , so far as he knew , was merely a small cluster of huts - of its growth in size and solidity he was genuinely ignorant ) offered to acknowledge English suzerainty and invited him to ...
And when emissaries from San Thomé itself ( which , so far as he knew , was merely a small cluster of huts - of its growth in size and solidity he was genuinely ignorant ) offered to acknowledge English suzerainty and invited him to ...
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But a dubious phrase in one of Ralegh's distracted letters is twisted into an admission that the English had landed above the town ; and Ralegh's whole testimony is then shown to be deliberately untruthful , by the report of a Spanish ...
But a dubious phrase in one of Ralegh's distracted letters is twisted into an admission that the English had landed above the town ; and Ralegh's whole testimony is then shown to be deliberately untruthful , by the report of a Spanish ...
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| Title | Sir Walter Ralegh, Last of the Elizabethans |
| Author | Edward John Thompson |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 1936 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 Jul 2010 |
| Length | 416 pages |
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