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Compare 1587 edition: 1 King Acho with a few other eſcaped out of daunger, and comming to the Caſtell of Ayre, which (as ye haue heard) he had wonne before, he was there informed of another loſſe, whiche hee had ſuſteyned: for his fleete conteyning the num|ber of an hundred and fiftie ſhippes, were ſo bea|ten wyth an outragious tempeſt, that there were not paſt foure of all that number ſaued,The loſſe of Achoes ſhips by tempeſt. the reſi|due being drowned and broken againſt the rocks and clyues.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Mariners alſo, beeing conſtrayned to come a lande for ſafegarde of their lyues,The [...] of the [...]. were ſlaine by the people of the countrey, ſo that few of them or none at all eſcaped.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Acho being thus abaſhed with theſe two in|fortunate miſchaunces,Acho fleeth in|to Orkney. aſwell for the loſſe and diſcomfiture of his armie by lande, as for the pe|riſhing of his Nauie on the Seas, got him vnto thoſe foure ſhippes that were ſaued, and ſayled with them aboute the coaſt, till he arryued in Orknay.

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