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^ the Sails, or weigh her Anchor ; and Roberts behig 

 ignorant of the Occafion or Alteration of the 

 firft Defign, fell into the Mouth of Danger, when 

 he thought himfelf the fartheft from it^ for the 

 Men of War not endeavouring to attain further to 

 Windward (w}ien they came from Princes) then to 

 iecure Cape Corfo Road under their Lee, they lucki- 

 ly hovered in the Track he had took. 



The Swallow and Weymouth fell in with the Con- 

 tinent at Cape Apfollonia^ Octo. 20th, and there re- 

 ceived the ungrateful News from one Captain Bird ; 

 a Notice that awakenM and put them on their 

 Guard ^ but they were far from expe3:ing any Te- 



• merity Ihould ever bring him a fecond Time on the 

 Coaft, while they were there-, therefore the 5^^/- 

 /i^tT> having feen the Weymouth into Cape Corfo Kozd^ 

 Nov. loth, ftieply'd to Windward as far as J?^j^^, 

 rather as an Airing to recover a fickly Ship's Gom- 

 pmy, and fliew herfelf to the Trade, which was 

 found every where undifturb'd, and were, for that 

 Reafbn, returning to her Confort, when accident- 

 ly meeting a Vortuguefe Ship, flie told her, that the 

 Day before ihe law two Ships Chace into "^nnk^ 

 an E^glijh Veflel, which ihe believed muft have 

 fallen into their Hands. On this Story, the Swal^ 

 clung her Wind, and endeavoured to gain that 

 Place, but receiving Iboa after (OSto. the 14th) a 

 contrary Report from Captain Flummery an intel^ 

 Hgent Man, in the Jafon of Brifiol, who had come , 

 further to Windward, and neither faw or heard 

 any Thing of this ^ {he turned her Head down the 

 fecond Time, anchored at Cape Affottonia the 23d, 

 at Cape Tres Puntas the 27th, and in Corfo Road 

 Jamary the 'J thy 1721-2. 



They learned that their Confbrt the Wey^ 

 mouthy was, by the Afliftance of fome Soldiers from 

 the Caftle, gone to Windward, to demand Refti- 

 ftutian of iome Goods or Men belonging to the 



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