Note XXX‑68 — Chapter XXX · FURTHER PIRATICAL RAIDS. 1681-1687.
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Six Frenchmen concealed themselves behind the rocks and fell upon five Englishmen who were known to be well supplied with booty and massacred them. 'Nous trouvâmes mon compagnon & moy, leurs corps étendus sur le rivage.' Lussan, Journal du Voy., 430-1. The murderers escaped and their companions never saw them again.