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come friends, becaufe I had forced pride to re- 

 ftrain itfeif within the bounds of good nnanners ; 

 tny letter to the Captain of the Dorothea was 

 therefore a kind of a marine gazette extraordi- 

 nary. Our pafiage was tedious, and the weather 

 unpleafant; our Ihip fprung the head of her 

 main-maft, which difabled her from carrying 

 fail, and this occafioned us to fall far aftern of 

 the reft of the fleet. When we made the mouth 

 of the Gut of Gibraltar, we v/ere unable to fol- 

 low the convoy through, and confequently 

 fleered for Tangier Bay, which we reached in 

 the middle of the night. Soon after day-break, 

 i was aftonifhed to fee the Dorothea's boat with 

 the Lieutenant and the Purfer come along-fide; 

 they informed us that when the frigate firft made 

 that land, they had gone on fhore to buy ftock ; 

 but the wind becoming more favourable, the 

 frigate and convoy proceeded up the Gut and 

 left them behind. They were in hopes that we 

 were in a condition to venture the palTage with- 

 out convoy, as the wind was fair, and the wea- 

 ther too boifterous to fuffer either gun-boats or 

 ^the fmall privateers, which fwarm there, to at- 

 tack us : but feeing our difabled ftate, and that 

 the Mafter durft not venture to fail without an 

 efcort, they returned to the town of Tangier, 

 and I accompanied them. I there found that 

 amiable and hofpitable charadler, Mr. Matra, 



his 



