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Kerguelen’s voyage to the north. 799 Spanifb veffels commanded by Spaniards, was attacked about four hours after leaving the jettys, by nine Dutch men of war, which furrounded and engaged the St. Vincent; his two companions made their efcape. Jacobfon maintained the unequal fight for thirteen hours, funk two of the veffels, and did great damage to the others, but, reduced to two or three men, the reft being either killed or wounded, he was boarded by fifty of the enemy, when he fet fire to the magazine, and blew them up with himfelf: the explofion was fo violent, that one of the Dutch veffels was difmafted, and another was in great danger from the falling of fome heavy pieces of brafs cannon which had been blown up, and alighted on the deck ; all the reft were in a fad plight. The enemy in this engagement loft more than four hundred men. This lofs, far from difpiriting the Dunkirkers, only inflamed them with a defire to revenge their companions. The Sieurs Wandewalle, father and fon, equipped eighteen veffels, which, in conjundtion with others, made more than fix hundred prizes, of which fix were veffels of war of the largeft fize ; from the prizes captured by four veffels only of Wandewalle, the tenth, which belonged to the king of Spain, came to more than a hundred thoufand florins; and in fpite of the blockade of the town, which the Dutch maintained continually, the cruizers ruined their filhery and their trade. In 162 > the profits of the privateering were eftimated at more than 10,000,000 f. In 1629*the Dunkirkers made prize of ninety-one veffels richly laden ; without including ranfoms, anddhips which they burnt in Norway and other places. Matthew Rombout, aDunkirker, vice-admiral of the Spaniards, fought Admiral Peter Hein ; the latter loft his life. He was much regretted by the Dutch. Tired at length with their continual Ioffes, after depriving Admiral Drop of his commifllon, who com- manded before Dunkirk, they augmented their fleet to eighty fail, in order to blockade the place entirely; but, getting too clofe to Maerdyck, the cannon from the fortrefe played on them with fo well directed a fire, they were fain to retire, after fuftaining confiderable damage. War being declared in 1635 between France and Spain, the Dunkirkers made prize of fourteen French fhips at once, laden w’ith wine; and fome days after, Captain Nordman captured eleven others. Admiral Colaert, a Dunkirkman, commanding fe- venteen veffels of war, burnt more than a hundred and fifty Dutch buffes, convoyed by a fquadron ; the admiral’s fhip itfelf was deftroyed, and the vice-admiral was carried prifoner to Dunkirk. One of the molt confiderable prizes was that of the famous ■ French pirate Loutre; fhe mounted eighteen guns, had made prize of feventeen veffels, which had been funk after taking out their mod precious effects ; there was on board this veffel feventeen thoufand florins, fix thoufand piaftres, one hundred and twenty-two pounds of filver in ingots, a coffer full of filver plate, and a great quantity of precious ftones. In 1636 the fame Colaert took and conduced to Dunkirk the Dutch admiral Haute Been, or Wooden-leg. This Colaert was iri the Spanifh fervice for thirty-fix years, took from the enemy one hundred and nine veffels, and twenty-feven fhips of war, bearing colle&ively more than one thoufand five hundred pieces of cannon ; he died at Dun- kirk in 1637. The great number of prifoners brought into the town caufed a plague, by which numbers of perfons perifhed. The owners of privateers made fortunes not- withftanding Van Tromp commanded the blockade of the port. In 1640 the circum- ference of the lower town W3S enlarged, in order to furnilh dwellings for theincreafed number of inhabitants ; fo greatly did the equipments from the place attract population. It was in 1641 that Don Pedro de Leon, governor of Dunkirk, obliged Vice-admiral Matthew Rombout to go out of port with his fquadron to affift the Spaniards again® 6 the
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Relation of a voyage in the North Sea, along the coasts of Iceland, Greenland, Ferro, Shetland the Orcades, and Norway, made in the years 1767 and 1768

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