 | George Wycherley - 1928 - 536 pages
...at, I burnt and spoiled. And had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had taken a great quantity of treasure. The matter of most profit unto me, was a great ship of the King's which I took at California which came from the Philippines, being one of the richest, for merchandise, that... | |
 | William Lytle Schurz - 1939 - 466 pages
...burnt and sunk 9 sailes of ships small and great. All the villages and townes that ever I landed at, I burnt and spoiled; and had I not bene discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantities of treasure." Of much greater value than the booty which he gathered along the way was the... | |
 | Peter T. Bradley, David Patrick Cahill - 2000 - 198 pages
...and sunke 19 sailes of ships small and great. All the villages and townes that ever I landed at, I burnt and spoiled: and had I not bene discovered upon...the coast, I had taken great quantitie of treasure' (279)passage, this account becomes a catalogue of the worst dangers and bitterest privations which... | |
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The matter of most profit unto me was a great ship of the king's which I took at California, which ship came from the Philippinas, being one of the richest of merchandise that ever passed those seas, as the king's register and merchants' accounts did... 
