6 The T)ljlrejfes and Adventures 

 among them, who poffibly, upon lb me 

 Turn of Fortune, might have it in their 

 Power to he revenged. It was therefore re- 

 folved, that the beft Way to get rid of us 3 

 would be to maroon us, that is, fet us afliore 

 on fome defolate Country, and there let us 

 fliift as we could. 



Here it may not be improper to give 

 fome Account of a poor unhappy Lady, 

 whofe ill Chance it was to accompany her 

 Husband in this unfortunate Voyage. She 

 was the Wife of our Merchant Mr. Groves, 

 who, and the Surgeon of the Ship, were the' 

 only Perfons belonging to us, that immedi- 

 ately loft their Lives in the Engagement. 

 This Lady was young, handfom, and of a 

 very courteous and affable Carriage, and being 

 now big with Child, all the Ship's Company 

 was under a more than ordinary Concern on 

 her Account. She had been down in the 

 Hold all the Time of our Engagement, and 

 as yet knew nothing of her Husband's Death,, 

 or our common Difafter; but as there was a 

 Neceffity for her being let into her prefent 

 Condition, and our Time and Circumftances 

 not admitting of Ceremony, I went and told 



her 



