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The irrepressible privateer bounced back again along many major successes. Then in 1628, the Dutch despatched another three large privateer fleets to press home the benefit and hit the Spanish even harder. The smaller Dutch ships had the advantage of speed and manoeuvrability in the heavier Spanish galleons, whose routes were familiar to all or any the privateers. After several battles of varying success, most of the Dutch fleet headed home. The Spanish captains in turn, assuming we were holding now relatively safe, also made a decision to set sail, their ships' bellies filled with Mexican silver. "Seventy-two precious arts are kept in a brocade bag, they may be kept being a great treasure. Eighteen turn out the essence of the famous treatises on pugilistic arts. Eighteen other arts describe in greater detail training methods with the use of special tools and training equipment. Wonderful types of attaining the flexibility of the breath-chi, exercises in obtaining hardness and lightness, clenching methods are written with all the blood of monks in magazines which might be kept like a treasure inside the brocade bag. One can seldom meet people that genuinely wish to do exercises with zeal: to turn into a real hero, one must often feel bitter taste of hard labour. " /Secret Shaolin Treatises for the Pugilistic Art/