A CLEVER PILOT. 
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town, bearing S. by E. On tbe 22â, we lay off Crawford's 
island. 23d, Tom Williams's point, 8. b. | W. six or seven 
mîie,*>. Thirty nnnutes past five'smv four strange sail, gave.chace 
to a schooner and ship, and came up with the schooner, which we 
found to be a frieiid. At forty nnnutes past eleven we came 
to off Factory Island, in seven and half fathoms water, with the 
kedge. At this time we had on board a gentleman named 
Wilson, who was to have piloted us into the Rio Pongos ; but 
nieetmg with Mr. Lawrence, a black gentleman, son to a Mr. 
Lavvrejice of Deal, whom he thought to be a better pilot than 
himself", he returned to Crawford Island, leaving another black 
man, Captain Jack, as a clever pilot for that channel. He was 
one of the men taken in a schooner before our last return to 
Sierra Leone, belonging to a Mr. Butterfield, who was captured 
in her. He and Mr. Butterfield had agreed that with three or 
four more men, they should, if the boat came alongside, try 
to effect their escape, leave their dispatches with Mr. Frisk, and 
make the best of their way to Sierra Leone, to give timely 
notice >f an enemy being on the coast. They employed them- 
selves for some time in damping the priming of the musquets ; 
the French prize-master gave them a sufficient opportunity of 
doing so, by drinking so much porter as to make himself drunk. 
At last the boat came alongside, w hen they jumped into her and 
rowed oft*. Neither oaths, menaces, nor the actions of the enemy, 
who pointed their musquets at them, had any efi'ect ; only one of 
the latter went off, fortunately it did no mischief. Mr. Butter- 
field promised this Captain Jack a slave if he succeeded : he 
was the person who brought to Sierra Leone the intelligence of 
the circumstrsnce, which occasioned our going in chace of them* 
We found Mr. Lawrence' at Factory Island coming in search of 
lis, to inform us of the privateer ; he also told us that a great 
number of the men were captured by the natives, and were in 
chains. 
1 had now^ again the pleasure of seeing Mr. Frisk, whose 
leg I found to be much belter, but his knee contracted. At 
thirty minutes past three, P. M. we made all sail, Mr. Lawrence's 
sloop in company. Saw a ship in the northward firing at the 
sloop with grape and round shot : discharged our larboard broad- 
eide at her ; which she returned with two, and proved to be the 
Hibernia irom Liverpool, bound to Rio Pongos, On the ^5th 
saw a strange sail : heard the report of two guns, and sent the 
jolly boat with the master and pilot, to discover the entrance oy 
the river : she returned however without success, the pilot de- 
claring that his TREE no lib dere,^^ the tree being his mark 
for the entrance. This sufficiently shews the errors of the 
charts, as there is no river where it is laid down, 
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