Note XXX‑64 — Chapter XXX · FURTHER PIRATICAL RAIDS. 1681-1687.
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Lussan, Journal du Voyage, 411. Nevertheless this author rather inconsistently adds: 'Cependant touchez de compassion par la quantité de sang que nous voyons couler avec l'eau de la ravine, nous épargnâmes le reste.' This same authority, who was one of the assailants, states that the pirates had only one killed and two wounded, which statement Archenholtz, Hist. Pir., 226, seriously questions.