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 brigantine of an hundred tons, that had been plun- 

 dered by pirates, and which had for three days pad 

 done their utmofttoget out of this bay, into which 

 the currents, ftronger this year than they had ever 

 been known, had carried them in fpite of all their 

 efforts, and tho* the wind was at eaft north eaft. 

 'Tis true, we did not come to know this but by the 

 account of the officer, who was by fome imagined to 

 have invented this ftory in order to lay to the 

 charge of the irregularity of the current, the mif- 

 fortune into which his own obftinacy had hurried 

 us. 



Be this as it will, the Englifh mafter con r ented 

 to embark twenty of our people, provided he was 

 fupplied with provifions and water, of which he 

 flood in extreme want. The condition was accept- 

 ed, and he accordingly drew near to eaft anchor 

 as clofe to us as pofllble. But a ftrong fouth-weft 

 wind arifing, he was obliged to continue his courfe, 

 leaft by endeavouring to affift us he mould expofe 

 himfelf to fliip-wreck. 



On the twenty-ninth we had fight of three vefTels 

 more, and fent to make them the fame propofals 

 we had formerly done, but without effect. They 

 were Engliffi too, and complained they had been 

 plundered by pirates. 



This very day, as there remained nothing on 

 board the Adour which we could carry away with 

 us, we bid her the laft farewel ; and with ftill more 

 regret, as for the four days fmce fhe had been 

 wrecked fhe had not made one drop of water, 

 and we all went on fhore after fun-fet. Here we 

 found tents, which had been made with the fails of 



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