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It is said by oficora of the ship at the record of the two guna han not benn equaled, for of sixteen shots fired, all hit the target with the exception of one, which struck the Hosting frame on which a rect angle of canvas, twenty-one foot long and Had seventeen feet high, was erected.

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4120

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1409

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