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had pafled feven or eight days in this 

 melancholy manner, when one morning 

 a kind of row- galley came along-fide 

 with a number of Englilh prifoners be- 

 longing to two large privateers the 

 French had taken. We were ordered 

 into the fame boat with them, and were 

 carried four leagues up the river to Lan- 

 demaw. At this town we were upon 

 our parole \ fo took the beft lodgings 

 we could get, and lived very well for 

 three months, when an order came from 

 the court of Spain to allow us to return 

 home by the firft fhip that offered. 

 Upon this, hearing there was a Dutch 

 ftiip at Morlaix ready to fail, we took 

 horfes and travelled to that town, where 

 we were obliged to remain fix weeks, 

 before we had an opportunity of getting 

 away. At laft we agreed with the 

 mafter of a Dutch dogger to land us at 

 Dover, and paid him before-hand. When 



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