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with the captain of our fliip, a midfliip^ 

 man belonging to monfieur L'Etanducre, 

 jumped into our boat, and ordered the 

 people to carry him on board the fliip he 

 belonged to, leaving us to wait upon the 

 beach for two hours before the boat re- 

 turned. On the fixth of September, we 

 put to fea, in company with the five men 

 of war, and about fifty fail of merchant- 

 men. On the eighth we made the 

 CaycQ Grande ; and the next day a Ja* 

 niaica privateer, a large fine floop, hove 

 in fight, keeping a little to windward of 

 the convoy, refolving to pick up one or 

 two of them in the night, if poflible. 

 This obliged monfieur L'Etanducre to 

 fend a frigate to fpeak to all the convoy, 

 and order them to keep clofe to him in 

 the night ; which they did, and in fuch 

 a manner, that fometimes feven or eight 

 of them were on board one another to- 

 gether 5 by which they received much 



damage j 



