PRISONERS. THEIR GRATITUDE.

CHAPTER 20. A CLEVER TRICK. WATERING AT QUIBO. CATCHING THE TURTLE.

CHAPTER 21. DELAY AND DISAPPOINTMENT. CHASING A HEATH FIRE. ACAPULCO. THE
MANILA GALLEON. FRESH HOPES.

CHAPTER 22. THE MANILA TRADE.

CHAPTER 23. WAITING FOR THE GALLEON. DISAPPOINTMENT. CHEQUETAN.

CHAPTER 24. THE PRIZES SCUTTLED. NEWS OF THE SQUADRON REACHES ENGLAND.
BOUND FOR CHINA.

CHAPTER 25. DELAYS AND ACCIDENTS. SCURVY AGAIN. A LEAK. THE GLOUCESTER
ABANDONED.

CHAPTER 26. THE LADRONES SIGHTED. TINIAN.

CHAPTER 27. LANDING THE SICK. CENTURION DRIVEN TO SEA.

CHAPTER 28. ANSON CHEERS HIS MEN. PLANS FOR ESCAPE. RETURN OF THE
CENTURION.

CHAPTER 29. THE CENTURION AGAIN DRIVEN TO SEA. HER RETURN. DEPARTURE FROM
TINIAN.

CHAPTER 30. CHINESE FISHING FLEETS. ARRIVAL AT MACAO.

CHAPTER 31. MACAO. INTERVIEW WITH THE GOVERNOR. A VISIT TO CANTON.

CHAPTER 32. A LETTER TO THE VICEROY. A CHINESE MANDARIN. THE CENTURION IS
REFITTED AND PUTS TO SEA.

CHAPTER 33. WAITING FOR THE MANILA GALLEON.

CHAPTER 34. THE CAPTURE OF THE GALLEON.

CHAPTER 35. SECURING THE PRISONERS. MACAO AGAIN. AMOUNT OF THE TREASURE.

CHAPTER 36. THE CANTON RIVER. NEGOTIATING WITH THE CHINESE. PRISONERS
RELEASED.

CHAPTER 37. CHINESE TRICKERY.

CHAPTER 38. PREPARATIONS FOR A VISIT TO CANTON.

CHAPTER 39. STORES AND PROVISIONS. A FIRE IN CANTON. SAILORS AS FIREMEN.
THE VICEROY'S GRATITUDE.

CHAPTER 40. ANSON RECEIVED BY THE VICEROY. CENTURION SETS SAIL. TABLE
BAY. SPITHEAD.

MAPS.
1. MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA.
2. MAP OF THE CHINA SEA.

NOTES.

GLOSSARY.

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INTRODUCTION.

It was in the reign of Elizabeth that England first became the enemy of
Spain. Rivals as yet Spain had none, whether in Europe or beyond the
seas. There was only one great mmilitary monarchy in Europe, only one
great colonising power in the New World, and that was Spain. While
England was still slowly recovering from the prostration consequent upon
the Wars of the Roses, and nearly a century had to run before she
established her earliest colony in Newfoundland, the enterprise and
disciplined courage of the Spaniards had added an enormous empire across
the Atlantic to the already great dominions of the Spanish crown. In 1520
Magellan, whose ship was the first to circumnavigate the globe, pushed
his wa