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it, and at the fame time to expofe themfelves to the 

 danger of being funk, which had certainly been 

 effe&ed, if we had had Powder and Ball enough 9 

 For theCanonading lafted almoftfive hours. 



The 20th a French Pilot who was Prifoner on 

 board of the Admiral, made his efcape by throw- 

 ing himfelf into the Sea in the Night-time. He 

 landed at the place where I lay in Ambufcade ; and 

 after he had given me an account of what pafs'd 

 in the Fleets I fent him to the Governour's Houfe. 

 He informed me, that they had defign'd a Defcent 

 with feven or eight hundred Men, but altered their 

 Refolution, upon the apprehenfion, that there were 

 fourteen or fifteen hundred Seamen ready to oppofe 

 them; that they were of the opinion, thatmyfixty 

 Bifcayans who difcover'd themfelves upon the fhoar 

 at la Fontaine, in fpite of all I could do, had no o- 

 ther view but to draw 'em into an Ambufcade, by 

 tempting 'em to come up. The 217? they fet fail 

 with a Ndrth-Eaft Gale, after having burnt all the 

 Houfes at Pointe Verte, where the Governour had 

 fent a Detachment by way of Precaution that fame 

 very day ; but the ways were fo impracticable, that 

 the Detachment could not get there in time to op- 

 pofe the Enemy. This one may juftly fay, that 

 if it had not been for the Captains of the Bifcaj 

 Ships that were then at Placentia, that place had un- 

 doubtedly fallen into the hands of the Englifh : And 

 this I can convince you of, when you and I meet. 

 In this bloody Expedition, the Englijhloft fix Men ; 

 and on our fide the Sieur Boat, Lieutenant of a 

 Nantes Veffel, had his Arm fhot off. In fine, thfe 

 Englijh did all that Men could do, fo that nothing 

 can be faid againft their Conduct. 



Ottoher the 6th > I took (hipping in purfuit of my 

 Voyage to France^ being accompany'd with feveral 

 other VeiTels.' The Wefterly Winds were fo favou- 

 rable to us in our palfage, that we came to an An- 

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