Note XXIX‑17 — Chapter XXIX · CORSAIRS IN THE SOUTH SEA. 1671-1682.
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'It pleased God, that with extream danger even to those that rescued them, they were all saved. It being a certain truth that those who are born to be hang'd shall never be drown'd, it proving so with us, one of our Company being hang'd at Jamaica on Port Royal; And we were very near it here in London.' Sharp's Voyage, 11.