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When whites came to live on the Bay at Playa Episode XXVII

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This decline was mainly owing to
the some-what drastic manner
in which the naval forces of the
combatants proceeded against
Dutch shipping. In order to destroy
the opponent’s trade international
law was continually encroached
upon, so that shipping was very se-
riously impeded. Privateers of the
insurgents time and again ran into
Aruban bays. Every now and then
we hear about difficulties neces-
sitating the intervention of Dutch
warships.

On 27 March 1817 His Dutch Maj-
esty’s Daphne surprised in an Aru-
ban bay the brigantine Indio Libre,
which had come to anchor there
with a prize, the Spanish schooner
Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria.
The commander of the Dutch brig
of war ordered the privateer to Pic. 5. A sky look over the bay area when many stone houses where build in a blink of an eye in the shadow of the frot.
relinquish his prize at once and to a prize, and forcefully conducted in sight, to seize her and bring her from a ship lying in our roadstead,
move out of the bay, with which both ships to Curacao. into the privateer’s lair, the Dutch the Sally, which, having arrived
the latter, after some delay, com- island of Aruba! Her captain even here as a prize of another priva-
plied. His Dutch Majesty’s corvette The Spanish privateer Centella went so far as to hold a vessel that teer, had been detained by the
Dolphijn in May 1819 encountered even selected Aruba as operation- he had seized, the Twee Gezusters colonial administration.
in one of our bays the independent al base, lay at anchor there, and (Two Sisters), to ransom in the har- Under Thielen these difficulties
privateer La Sozegada, also with set sail as soon as a vessel hove bor of the island, and to rob goods continued.q