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Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period

Note 2 — BARTHOLOMEW SHARP AND OTHERS. (continued 2)

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Sir John Narbrough (1640-1688), afterward a celebrated admiral, had in 1669-1671 voyaged to the South Sea, as a young lieutenant, in command of the Sweepstakes; in Valdivia bay the Spaniards had seized two of his officers, and, it seems, still detained them.

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