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of the bread and gunpowder as possible before the water rising in the 

 hold ruined it. Bishop was able to save 20 bags of bread before the 

 water forced him from the breadroom, and by the efforts of Gunner 

 Kirk 6 barrels of gunpowder were saved. 



The prize, which had struck the reef just after the Loo, was rolling 

 and pounding herself to pieces on the coast and, in order to save the 

 men aboard her, Utting ordered her masts cut away and her guns and 



Fig. 2. — Map of the Florida Straits, showing the course of the last cruise of 

 the Loo. I, Havana. 2, Pan of Matanzas. 3, Double Headed Shot Key. Dotted 

 line, Captain Utting's intended course. Solid line, actual course of the Loo. 



anchors thrown overboard. After this she lay more quietly in the swell 

 and her men were saved. 



With the coming of daylight Utting and his officers saw with great 

 surprise that they were ashore on a "small sandy Key about i^ 

 cables ^^ length long and ^ broad which lay on the edge of the Bank 

 of the IMartiers 3 leagues "* without them." ^^ (See fig. 2.) 



At no time since the ship had struck iiad the pilots or officers 



^'' A cable was 600 feet. 



8^ A league was 3 nautical miles. 



shutting's letter of February 15, 1744. 



