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along-fide of us ; but we faw nothing 

 of them in the night, and to our great 

 aftonifhment, in the morning no (hips 

 were to be feen even from the maft-head. 



Thus did thefe two cruizers lofe one of 

 the richeft prizes, by not chacing an 



hour or iwo longer. There were near 

 two millions of dollars on board, befides 

 a valuable cargo. On the eighth, at fix 

 in the morning, we were off Cape La 

 Grange ; and, what is very remarkable, 

 the French at Cape Francois told us after- 

 wards that was the only day they ever 

 remembered fince the war, that the 

 Cape had been without one or two Eng- 

 lifh privateers cruifing off it ; and but 

 the evening before, two of them had 

 taken two outward-bound St. Domingo 

 men, and had gone with them for Ja- 

 m^ica; fo that this fliip might be juftly 

 efteemed a moft lucky one. In the af- 

 ternoon we carne to an anchor in Cape 

 Francois harbour. 



