Monday December 01, 2008 12:20
“… [T]hey threw overboard everything on the gun-deck and in the spice-holds, so that the sea was covered with untold riches, most of them thrown away by their very owners, to whom they were now as hateful and despicable as they were formerly beloved and esteemed.”
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Wreck of the San Alberto, by João Baptista Lavanha (1597), translated by Charles Boxer.
The above is a description of emptying the ship’s hold in preparation for increasingly worse weather; I would love an illustration of this passage.
