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Treasure search and mutiny tale across Atlantic ports
Lisbon reports a British secret voyage to Cape Verde Island to claim a treasure hidden by pirates. A mulatto sailor betrayed the plan. he was jailed, later executed as the vice consul and 13 mariners were freed. Other items note corsair captures near Larache, Persian snares, and courtly dispatches in Rome Genoa and Vienna.
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Cape de Verde Islands
Vigo
Mulatto
St. Antonio
Cape de Verdeslands
Jane
Portugal
S. Antonio
Faid
Lisbox
Cadiz
Larache
Mequinez
Great Britain
Petersburg
Persia
Adirireys
Sephi
Aviriweys
Afcrimeus
Rome
Naples
Albano
Orreboms
Alvino
Genoa
Cagrerz
Tunis
Vienna
Prague
M. Bruyninx
Cordone
Great Council
Brussels