Part III. 



Containing the Return from the South- 

 Sea into France. 



Departure from La Conception. 



We not being fo good Sailors as our Comrades, crowding 

 Sail to keep up with them, fplit our Main-yard in the 

 middle. 



The 9th of March, in 57 Degrees Latitude, and ^De- 

 grees 30 Minutes Longitude, we made a Signal of Diftrefs, 

 and they lay by for us. We immediately hoifted up a fmall 

 Top-fail, inftead of the Main-fail, to make the others lofe 

 as little time as poffible. The next Day the Yard was 

 mended and hoifted up in its Place. 



The fame crowding Sail to keep up with them 3 made 

 us the next Day lofe a great Stay-fail. 



Our Comrades feeing us out of order on account of our 

 Main-fail, confpired to leave us $ little regarding the Pa- 

 role of Honour they had given to convoy us to France, 

 tho' before fatisfy'd that we were not fo good Sailors as 

 they, and knowing that on that account we had waited 

 for them above a Month. In ftiort 3 we were apprehenfive 



