216 CAPTAIN ZACHARY G. LAMSON 



than forty sail were lost, sunk, upset, driven 

 ashore and foundered at sea. I rode out 

 the gale two days when one cable parted 

 and we were obliged to cut the other. I 

 went to sea and lay all night under mizzen 

 staysail in the Gut. At daybreak finding 

 myself close on Tarriffa shoals and blowing 

 a hurricane, I loosed the yard arm of my 

 foretopsails and wore, about a pistol shot 

 from the breakers. As myself and crew 

 were nearly exhausted, my lower rigging 

 one half cut away and no anchor, I put up 

 my helm and ran out the straits and luffed 

 round Cape Spartel, laid to under short 

 sail and put the ship to rights. In two days 

 the gale subsided and the wind came to the 

 West. I made all sail. An English seventy- 

 four which was abeam of me and bound to 

 the straits, and which I came within mus- 

 ket shot of and which I made signals of dis- 

 tress to, would take no notice of us. Know- 

 ing now my risk of the Algesiras privateers, 

 I immediately hauled into Tangiers roads, 

 and lay my ship to, till three o'clock in the 



