Privateers Prize Riches Report From Newsletters
Postscript from the Hague Courant reports 4 or 5 privateers out despite storms, with prizes including two Muscovy Traders from Archangel and four others from Hamburg. Amsterdam Courant notes French forces growing, 4000 horses bought, and the Portuguese prince arriving to reside for winter. Supplement to Amsterdam Gazette adds a savage young woman found near Cranenbourg, captured by about 1000 peasants using a net. she lived on grass and leaves, wearing only a straw girdle.