i 7 2 Some New Voyages 



they had taken the Latitude, the Pilots thinking that 

 they were even with Cape Finifier, Mr. d'Aunay fent 

 out his Long-boat, to acquaint me that he was then 

 upon his return home 3 upon which I wrote him a 

 Letter of thanks. Father Bechefer a Jefuit, who had 

 been many years Superior of the College of Quebec, 

 whither he was now going in the fame Capacity , was 

 fbre'd to throw himfelf into this Long-boat, in order 

 to his return into France, having found himfelf con- 

 tinually indifpos'd, from the firftday we put to Sea. 

 On the i^dof Augufi we had a great Storm of Wind 

 from the North- Weft, which Iafted about twenty four 

 hours, being then a hundred Leagues off the Bank of 

 Newfound- Land. This Bank takes its Name from the I- 

 j^WflfNewfound-Land, a Map ofwhichu here annex d. 



When the Storm was over, there fucceeded a 

 Wind from the North- Eaft, which drove us in ten or 

 twelve hours, to the Mouth of the River of St. Lau- 

 rence, On the 6th of September we difcover'd a Ship 

 failing from the Coaft of Gafpe y which bore down 

 upon us with a full fail. We thought at firft that 

 they were French coming from Quebec > but their way 

 of working the Ship difcover'd to us within an hour 

 after, that they were Enemies. After we knew 

 them, we prepared to fight them, and they being a- 

 bout a League to the Windward of us, came quick- 

 ly down upon us with full Sail, within Musket- 

 flbot. Prefently they put up Englifh Colours, and gave 

 us a Broad-fide ; and we put up our own Colours, 

 and paid them home in their own Coyn. The Fight 

 Iafted two hours, and both fides fir'd continually 

 one upon another, bat the Sea being tempeftuous, 

 we were obliged to fliear off as Night came on, 

 without fullering any other lofs, than the wound- 

 ing of two Seamen, and the receiving of twenty 

 eight or thirty (hot in our Mafts, Sails, and Rig- 

 ging. Two days after we met Mx.Duta, Captain 

 of the Hazardous, who was homeward bound for 



France^ 



