The Unfortunate Englishmen - Or a Faithful Narrative of the Distresses and Adventures of John Cockburn, and Five Other English Mariners, Who Were Taken by a Spanish Guarda Costa and Set on Shore at Porto Cavallo Naked and Wounded #228038

Now the firf't man they 'defigned to (acrifi'ce to their cruelty, was Mr. Ball, who feemed very tmeafy at his approaching fate, and could not help intimating, that he thought our prefent calami~ ties were, in a great meafure, owing ta. Captain Burt, by his having been too ready to deliver Up the fhip; For, fays he, had we continued the engagement but a few minutes longer, which.