TRAVELS I N 
I had been treated with great kindnefs- ancfi 
friendfhip. 
Accdrdingly, tafeihg with me ^ party of my 
people and fome good fwimmers, I fet out for 
Ho&tjes Bay, a fmall creek into which our fliip^ 
had retired when attacked by the Englifli 
fquadron. I found the Middelburg, as it had^ 
been defcribed to me, very near the flhsorCj 
about twenty feet unda^r water, and its hul)^ 
from the calmnefs of the feaj per&(^ly^percep* 
tible. 
This calmnefs aided the operations of my 
divers, and they entered upon the bufinefs with^ 
fo mueh^ alaeritj^^ that it was not long before 
they brought' up a number of lo©fe articles^ 
which I depofited with great joy on^the fhorc. 
With fuch prizes, however, they were notfatif- 
fied ;« though the tafk was fo difficult, as the 
planters had experienced, that frequently, be» 
fore they fucceeded in an attempt^ they were 
obliged to return feveral times to the furface of 
the water to breathe^ 
At the bottom of the fhip there were whole 
boxes but they were too heavy for the ex- . 
ertions of a fmgle individual to liftk Mean^ 
Mobile 
