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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: relinquish all the plunder he had gained if he were allowed to
depart in peace. But no; the Spanish admiral would hear nothing
of this. Having the pirates, as he thought, securely in his
grasp, he would relinquish nothing, but would sweep them from the
face of the sea once and forever.
That was an unlucky determination for the Spaniards to reach, for
instead of paralyzing the pirates with fear, as he expected it
would do, it simply turned their mad courage into as mad
desperation.
A great vessel that they had taken with the town of Maracaibo was
converted into a fire ship, manned with logs of wood in montera
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