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the whole company to an unanimous way of think- 

 ing ; I cafily obtained that they lhould all fet out 

 together next day, and encamp in the ifland which 

 Was farther!: in the offing, and take our refolution. 

 as the wind favoured. 



We fet out in effect on the twenty-fifth at noon, 

 and failed together for feveral leagues ; but towards 

 fun-fet we faw the long-boat thread the channel, 

 which muft be eroded to get to the Havannah, 

 without ever confidering the canoe, whofe provi- 

 fions they had on board, and who not being in con- 

 dition to follow them, was obliged to join us : we 

 received them kindly, altho' there was one among 

 them with whom we had no reafon to be fatisfied. 

 We landed on the ifland, where we intended to 

 rendezvous, and where a body of Indians had al- 

 ready landed, with what defign we know not : we 

 kept on our guard all night, and fet out early in 

 the morning. 



The weather was delightful, the tea calm and 

 pleafant, and our crew began to envy the lot of 

 the long-boat. They even began to murmur very 

 foon, and our chiefs thought it prudent to feem 

 defirous of fatisfying them. We therefore took 

 the courfe of the channel. Two hours afterwards 

 the wind blew frefher, and we thought we difcover- 

 ed the appearances of an approaching dorm. There 

 was no body then who did not agree, that it would 

 be a rafh thing to hazard fo long a paifage in fuch 

 vefTels as ours, nothing being weaker than our 

 boat, which made water every where. But as in 

 order to go to St. Auguftin, we mould have been 

 under a neceffity of failing back again the whole 

 way we had come hitherto, we came to an 

 unanimous refolution to return by the way ofBi- 

 loxi. 



