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spoyled not fit to eate." The ship being lost beyond 

 hope of recovery, the crew made ready to leave the 

 place in their boats. Fifty men in all, they left in 

 four small sloops and the ship's boat on the i5th July. 

 After proceeding for some thirty to forty leagues to 

 the southward the boats separated. One sloop and 

 the ship's boat being together, met with a ship of 

 Hull, to whom they imparted the information that 

 their ship was lost and that they had left on land 

 goods to the value of some fifteen hundred pounds. 

 The Mary Margaret's men now proceeded with the 

 Hull boat back to Foule Sound to take in the 

 Company's goods and to kill some sea-morses. 



This Hull ship, the Hopewell, Thomas 

 Marmaduke, master, got back to the wreck of the 

 Mary Margaret, where they were ultimately found by 

 Jonas Poole in the Elizabeth, as will appear in the 

 sequel. 



The main part of the shipwrecked crew of the 

 Mary Margaret, including Thomas Edge, the 

 factor, and Steven Benet, the master, held on their 

 course to the southward to Cherry Island, which 

 they reached safely on the 29th July, having been at 

 sea in their sloops for fourteen days, " and comming 

 into the Hand with a great storme at north-west 

 with much difficultie they landed on the south side of 

 the Island." Here they found the Elizabeth in the 

 north road, three miles away, " being at that time 

 weighing anchor to set sayle for England." 



Poole, who was unquestionably a man of resource, 

 on learning how matters stood with the Mary 



