_List with Mr. Wargrave, his valuation_. _Gs_.
Two small bags of pearls, weighing with other
pearls therein under fifteen grains, as I
judged from others shown me by Mr. W. 1,250
One great pearl wrapped in a piece of damask
brocade, six-eighths of an inch in its
diameter, as I did measure. 2,000
Another, the size of a pigeon's egg, full of
most lustrous sheen, wrapped in a piece
of deerskin 3,000
A little bag of sapphires, nine in all. 315
Some Turkish pieces of gold about the size and
weight of our shillings, twenty-one in all.
These I put in my pocket and did sell
afterwards in Portsmouth for 14
Some silver pieces, too cumbersome to carry
and left with other things, perhaps 5
A little bar of gold 80
Two pistols beautifully inlaid and chased with
silver, having engraved thereon the name
"Marquis de Pontvismes," and date 1589 30
A portrait of a girl done as a medallion, with
blue eyes, red gold hair, and a sweet
mouth; perhaps this was Barbara! No
value for selling.
A child's coral; also a child's shoes; also a
lock of long hair, wheat coloured, wrapped
in silk. No value for selling.
And a dagger set with little diamonds and
rubies, the blade rusted very much 50
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6,744
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I pondered much over these things, for, as I have writ, I am very sure
they never came out of the sunken galleon. There was no sign of wet
having got near unto the box or its contents, which must have been the
case had it been fished up from that wreck, and therefore I thought to
myself, this has perhaps been stolen on some cruise they were upon
between the time they left their boat at our little isle and then came
back to the reef, thinking not to find us, or any, there. Yet this
would not do, neither, for their Snow was no fighting ship--not, I
mean, a ship fit to attack another carrying treasure, which would be
extremely well armed--and she had _not_ fought till we got at her in
the river. That I knew from the wounds and damage, when I boarded and
searched her, being quite fresh and made by us.
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