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Narrative and critical history of America (1884)

Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897 · Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin & Co. · leaf 248

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was hardly possible for the Panama settlements togrow, and a decided retrogression marked their history. The story of English Elizabethan seamanship is full of lawless depreda-tion on the two coasts of these lower parts of middle America. Drake washere in 1572, dealing his sudden blows with the… … S T vmfcono infieme dngento > e trecento, & NATIVE D.\NCE.» For a century and more the history of these waters, bordering the Isth-mus on the east and on the west, is largely the story of the buccaneers.In 1601 Captain William Parker attacked Porto Bello.^ In 1623 James I ofEngland granted…

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