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under our courses and topsail I told them 

 I would, in hopes as it blew 'so, to pass 

 them, but the Spy sloop of war, which I had 

 to pass very close, fired her waist guns just 

 over our heads. We passed her and two 

 more lying a mile above her and a Cutter, 

 when I thought it best to come to. The 

 gale blowing hard, they did not board me 

 until four in the afternoon when I was re- 

 quested to go on to the Commodore's ship. 

 On going aboard the Ariadne Frigate, Lord 

 Viscount Falkland, 1 who was the com- 

 mander and who was in the Cabin, I was 

 received by the Lieutenant of the Deck, 

 who introduced me to the Cabin. My first 

 salutation was to beg his permission to lay 

 by until the gale abated and I could obtain 

 a pilot for Tonningen. He made no reply, 

 but took my papers and in a haughty man- 

 ner began to handle them as I stood with- 

 out his invitation to sit down. I felt dis- 

 posed to hear him speak and inconsequence 



1 " Ariadne," 20, Capt. Falkland. Capt. Charles John 

 Viscount Falkland. 



