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| | Overview of Belizean History |
 | | Bacalar suffered heavily-in an Indian uprising in 1640, in 1642 the pirate Diego el Mulato sacked the town and other pirates ravaged it in the following years. |
| | It must he pointed out however, that in the 1500's and into the 1600's, a ship and crew could simply disappear with no record of her fate. |
| | Crews surviving a shipwreck, still had to face the elements and, at times, hostile Indians, who by this time had learned that the Europeans did not have their best interests at heart. |
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