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In which ship he had news of another ship called the Cacafuego, 10 which was gone towards Payta, and that the same ship was laden with treasure.
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Here the admiral got notice of a very rich ship, called the Cacafuego, which had sailed for Paita, in lat.
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After a long pursuit, and the capture of more minor prizes -- which he let go, after taking what he wanted, leaving intact the private property of those on board -- he overtook the Cacafuego, securing an immense treasure and some exceedingly useful charts.
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The sun sank low, and at last set into the ocean, and then, when both ships had become invisible from the land, the casks were hoisted in, the Pelican was restored to her speed, and shooting up within a cable's length of the Cacafuego, hailed to her to run into the wind.
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Cacafuego, which he learnt had sailed a few days before.
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A gold chain was promised to the first man who caught sight of the Cacafuego.
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education
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A thirteenth, called by the seamen the Cacafuego, but christened in her baptism "Our Lady of the Conception," had sailed for the Isthmus a few days before, taking with her all the bullion which the mines had yielded for the season.
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education
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There lay the Cacafuego; if they could take her their work would be done, and they might go home in triumph.
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education
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In a schedule afterwards published, he acknowledged to have found in the Cacafuego alone twenty-six tons of silver bullion, thirteen chests of coined silver, and almost a hundredweight of gold.
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Many years before Drake had gone ashore there to make a dividend, and had emptied bowls of gold coins into the hats of his men, after the capture of the _Cacafuego_.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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