Note XXX‑3 — Chapter XXX · FURTHER PIRATICAL RAIDS. 1681-1687.
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Dampier strongly urged his comrades to run for the river Congo, three leagues distant, and ascend it to the limit of tide-water, but could not persuade them of the existence of a large river so near, 'but they would land somewhere, they did not know how, where, nor when.' Id., 7.