Loss of the Portuguse carack Cinque Chagaas

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The account of the Chagas battle with the British represents probably the most horrible spectacle ever known to the Portuguese. We are in 1594...

<<The sea was purple with blood dripping from the scuppers, the decks cluttered with the dead and the fire raging in some parts of the ships and the air so filled with smoke that not only we could sometimes not see each other but we could not recognize each other, all black and sooty from the fire and gunpowder...>>...

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