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And when thei perceiue their ennemies dispersed by pursuinge the chase, or not to fighte any thing wholie together: soudeinly retourninge, the beginne a newe onset with a hayle of shotte, neither sparing horse ne man.
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And when euery manne hath throwen his darte, or shotte his arrowe: whilest the beast is troubled and amased with the stripes, thei steppe in to her and slea her.
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Whereupon the Salomon being a hot shippe, and hauing sundry cast pieces in her, gaue the first shotte in such a sowre sort, as that it shared away so many men as sate on the one side of a Gallie, and pierced her through in such maner, as that she was readie to sinke, which made them to assault vs the more fiercely.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In the afternoone the Basha came downe to the waterside against the shippe, and hauing the said ordinance placed, and charged, it was all shotte off to gratifie him: and presently after his departure backe, he permitted the factors to come aboord the shippe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The bellowing shotte which wakened dead mens swounds, As
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The lorde, Generall perceiuing that many men were slaine with the ordenance, caused fiue peeces of brasse to bee brought from the castle which we had taken the daie before, and towarde the euening we beganne to make a battery, and the same euening brought into it three peeces, whereof two were placed presentlie to play vppon the Castle and the hill; but that euening were but fiue or sixe shotte made.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Sunday (9) at foure of the clocke in the morning we departed from this Island, the winde being at Southeast, and as we were cleere a sea boord the small Islandes and shoales, it came so thick with mistes that we could not see a base shotte from vs. Then we took in all our sailes to make little way.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And if you be disposed to goe through the Sound to the Southwards, keepe the Northwest shoare aboorde, for on the Island side after you be shotte so far in as the crosse, it is a shoale of rockes halfe the sound ouer: which rockes do last vnto the Southerly part of the great Island, and rather to the Southwards.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Tuesday (22) in the morning we were shotte a head of Cape gallant, which the Russes call Sotinoz.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Certaine goates whereat we shotte fled vp to the high cliffes, so that it was impossible to get them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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