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joy^d to meet again, after fuch ill Treatment from 

 the Winds and Seas. 



After the Storm^ Lm got fafe to a fmall Ifland, 

 ©Be of tlie Weatheritioft of the Carihheesy anti there 

 fitted tlieir Teffels^ as well as the Place could af- 

 ford; "tliey got ProTifions of the i^ativeSj^ .in ex- 

 change, for Goods of their own ; and as fboii as 

 the Brigaiitioe was ready, 'twas }udgM neceflkry 

 to take a fliort Gruize, and leave the Scooner in 

 the Harbour till her Return. The Brigantine 

 iaiPd out accordingly, and had not been out many 

 Days before they met a Ship at Sea, that had loft 

 all her Mafts 9 on Board of whom they went, and 

 took from her in Money and Goods, to the Value 

 of 1 000 1, and fo left her in the Condition they 

 found her: This Ship was bound home from 5^r- 

 shadoes ^ hnt Icfmg her Mafts in the late Storm, was 

 mt\.\Cm% for: Antegoa^ to xeSt, where fiie afterwards 

 arrlvM. 



The Storm juft Ipoken of, was found to have 

 done incredible Damage in thofe Parts of the 

 World • but however, it appearM to have been more 

 violent at J^»^^i/r4, both to the Ifland and Shipping, 

 there was fuch a prodigious Swell of the Sea, that 

 leveral hundred Tuns of Stones and Rocks, were 

 thrown over the Wall of the Town of Port Royd^ and 

 the Town it felf was overflowed, and above half 

 deftroy'd, there being the next Morning five Foot 

 Water from one End to the other ^ the Gannon of 

 Fort Charles were difmounted, and fome waflied 

 into the Sea, and four hundred People loft their 

 Lives V a more melancholly Sight was fcarce ever 

 feen when the Water ebb'd away, all the Streets 

 being covered with Ruins of Houfes, Wrecks of 

 VeifefS;, and a great Number of dead Bodies;, for 

 forty Sail of Ships, in the Harbour, were caft 

 away; 



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