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and a frigate, were making for him, and it took him 

 till the next day to shake them off. He entered 

 Savannah on May ist and sailed again on the 8th, 

 standing in to the Gulf Stream, between Makanilla 

 and Florida, to look out for the Jamaica fleet. He 

 found this fleet on the 24th, but the discovery failed 

 to do him much good, as the ships were under the 

 convoy of a 74, two frigates, and three brigs. The 

 Adams hovered on their skirts for a couple of days, 

 but nothing could be done with them, for the mer 

 chantmen sailed in the closest possible order and 

 the six war vessels exercised the greatest vigilance. 

 So the corvette passed northward to the Newfound 

 land Banks, where she met with nothing but fogs 

 and floating ice, and then turned her prow toward 

 Ireland. On July 4th she made out and chased two 

 sail, who escaped into the mouth of the Shannon. 

 After this the Adams, heartily tired of fogs and cold, 

 stood to the southward and made a few prizes ; then, 

 in lat. 44 N., long. 10 W., on July I5th, she stum 

 bled across the i8-pounder 36-gun frigate Tigris, 

 Capt. Henderson. The frigate was to leeward, and 

 a hard chase ensued. It was only by dint of cutting 

 away her anchors and throwing overboard some of 

 her guns that the Adams held her own till sunset, 

 when it fell calm. Capt. Morris and his first lieu 

 tenant, Mr. Wadsworth, had been the first and sec 

 ond lieutenants of Old Ironsides in Hull's famous 



