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was then with us. We learnt that a daughter of 

 his friend three years of age, and whom her father 

 was conveying back into France, was no more than 

 fprinkled, and he was therefore defirous the re- 

 maining part of the ceremonies of the Sacrament 

 of Baptifm mould be performed here, and that he 

 fhould (land godfather. This was performed with 

 great ceremony, and under a difcharge of the can- 

 non i the godmother was a niece of the governor's, 

 who gave at night a magnificent fupper, and by an 

 excefs of politenefs. rare enough amongft Spaniards, 

 would have the ladies to be prefent at it. He con- 

 cluded fo many civilities with furnifhing us with 

 provisions to enable us to continue our journey, 

 tho' he had not as yet received the convoy which 

 was to fupply him with provifions from the Ha- 

 vannah, and had for that reafon refufed any to the 

 officers of Biloxi : but our fituation had touched 

 him extremely. 



We fet out on the thirtieth, with the two flial- 

 lops, and were fainted by the fort with five pieces 

 of cannon. We advanced feven leagues that day, 

 and came to an anchor at the mouth of a river 

 which comes from a bay which opens to the fouth- 

 eaft. At eleven at night the wind becoming fa- 

 vourable, we took the advantage of it and failed 

 well north weft; the whole coaft lies open to the 

 fame winds for twenty leagues, as far as the ifland 

 of Saint Rofe ; and there is not one place where 

 you can be fheltered from the fqualls or gales of 

 wind which mould come large or full upon the 

 fhore. On the thirty firft at four in the afternoon, 

 we had failed thefe twenty leagues, and came to an 

 anchor behind the ifland, which inclofes the great 

 bay of St. Rofe, the entry of which is dangerous 

 when the fea is high. Had we been but a moment 



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