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~ erasure poem based on The First Voyage Round the World;
Antonio Pigafetta, 1874
11.
another chief named
Silapulapu would not in any way obey the King of Spain
we then leaped into the water up to our thighs
and we
the islanders fifteen hundred in number they came down upon
us with terrible shouts
springing
throwing arrows, javelins, spears hardened in fire
our men set
fire to their houses
The rest came down
upon us with greater fury