Identifier: truestorybook00lang3 (find matches)
Title: The true story book
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
Subjects: History Adventure and adventurers
Publisher: London New York : Longmans, Green

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away a boat from the stern of the ship he was in when on the coast of Guinea, and was driven onshore there. But afterwards he went passenger to Barbadoes in an English ship, where he was taken with a violent fever, and so died. As for Davis, he sailed to the island Princess, belonging to the Portuguese, which is in the Bay of Guinea. Here the people soon discovered they were pirates by their lavishness; but the Governor winked at it, because of the great gain he made by them. But afterwards, someone putting it into his mind that if the King of Portugal heard of this it would be his ruin, he plotted to destroy Davis. And when, before sailing, Captain Davis came on shore with the surgeon and some others to bid farewell to the Governor, they found no Governor, but many people with weapons were gathered together in the street, who at a word from the Governors steward fired at Davis and his men. The surgeon and two others were killed on the spot, but Davis, though struck by four shots, went on running
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SOME OF THE PIRATES . . . HAD THROWN SEVERAL BUCKETS OF CLARET UPON HIM.

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