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Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period

Note 12 — BARTHOLOMEW SHARP AND OTHERS.

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Still so called. It lies some 15 or 20 miles north of the gold mines of Cana ("the richest Gold-Mines ever yet found in America", says Dampier) and from the Cerro Pirre, whence Balboa first looked at the Pacific, "Silent upon a peak in Darien."

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