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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>A True Account From on Board the Good Ship CAESAR, In Her Voyage to the EAST INDIES. Captain &mdash; <HI>Wright</HI> Commander.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>HAVING this Opportunity, I could not forbear giving you this Brief Account of a Signal Victory which Providence gave us over Five Sail of Py|rates. The full Relation would take up more Time, and more Paper (which is a &s;carce Commodity with us) than I can &s;pare at pre&s;ent; but however, I doubt not but that you will take this Ha&s;ty Relation in good part.</P>
<P>Upon the la&s;t day of <HI>October,</HI> 1686. being upon a Sunday Morning, we happen'd to meet with Five Sail of Ships (at a Place called St. <HI>Jago,</HI> where we u&s;ually touch to take in Fre&s;h Water, and Fre&s;h Provi&s;ions) who came up to us at fir&s;t with <HI>French</HI> Colours, but they were &s;oon changed into <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Colours, and one of them hoi&s;ted up the Bloody Flag, which immediatly alarmed Us, and made Us put our &s;elves into a Condition of Receiving them, and they as immediatly &s;et upon Us; We lo&s;t all our Boats, and were forced to throw
<PB N="2" REF="2"> Three Thou&s;and weight of Bread over-board, and &s;everal other things, that we might have Room enough to Play our Great Guns.</P>
<P>For Five hours &s;pace we had a very hot and &s;harp Engage|ment: Their Admiral and Vice-Admiral intended to have Boarded Us upon our Sides, and another upon our Stern; yet we &s;aw none bold enough to dare to take po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion; for at the &s;ame time we had the luck to give them our Broad|&s;ides, and likewi&s;e our Small-&s;hot from our <HI>Foreca&s;tle, Poop, Quarters</HI> and <HI>Decks,</HI> which we &s;howred on them like Hail; till at la&s;t the Villains were forced to march off with the lo&s;s of their <HI>Boult-&s;prit, Fore-ma&s;t</HI> and <HI>Mizen yard</HI> from tho&s;e Three Ships which attempted to have Boarded Us. We &s;up|po&s;e their Aim was at the Money which we had in the Ship, which was Eighty two thou&s;and Pounds, be&s;ides the Cargoe; and if they had taken Us, We &s;hould have been worth to them Two hundred thou&s;and Pounds, be&s;ides the Ship: We had One hundred and twenty Souldiers on Board of Us, which did Us a great deal of good Service. We had but one Souldier killed, and one Sea-man lo&s;t his Arm, by name <HI>Francis Stephens</HI> (a Water-man that u&s;ed to Ply at <HI>Puddle-dock</HI> Stairs,) and we had about &s;even more woun|ded; but we are certain that they have lo&s;t &s;everal of their Men, be&s;ides a great deal of damage done to their Shipping; for at la&s;t they were forced to fall a Stern to make good the damage they had received from Us, which que&s;tionle&s;s was very con&s;iderable; They were Ships of Burthen, and could not have le&s;s than between Twenty and Thirty Guns a-piece, and a great many Men on Board, of which they carried but few away. If I had had lei&s;ure, I &s;hould have given you a Fuller and more Particular Account: but this is in Sub&s;tance the truth of the Action, in which I was engaged, who am</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Humble Servant, William Walford.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>June 8. 1687.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>This may be Printed,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>R. P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>H. Hills,</HI> Jun. and are to be &s;old by <HI>Randal Taylor,</HI> near <HI>Stationers Hall.</HI> 1687.</P>
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