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AUGUST. 
Tuefday 19. 
Wednefday 
20. 
AN ■ACCOUNT. OF 
The boats again vifited the wreck very early, and re¬ 
turned at three o’clock in the afternoon, bringing two 
hawfers and fome boards. Some of our people employed in 
procuring water, which Was found to be father a fcarce ar¬ 
ticle.—-The barricade was alfo continued.—There was this 
clay little wind, the weather being overcaft, with fome 
loud claps of thunder.—-One of the natives having ftolen 
a fmall hatchet, that was carried in the boat to the wreck, 
was getting off with it in his canoe ; but a inufqUet being 
fired, charged only with powder, in order to frighten him, 
one of the people, whom the King left, went in the jolly- 
boat, and made him reftore it. ^ 
Though the morning was fhowery, the boats returned 
again to the wreck. Thofe on land employed themfelves 
in carrying on the barricade on the fide of the land, where 
they were ftill affailable. The carpenters fitted the fcarfe 
of the ffem and ftern-poft. About one o’clock the jolly- 
boat returned with the lower fhroud hawfer, fome plank, 
copper, and other ftores. By her our people were inform¬ 
ed, that the King’s fon had been on board the wreck, and had 
fixed a green branch at each mafl-head. The Engli/b were 
impatient for the return of the pinnace, and about three 
©’clock it arrived. Our people in the jolly-boat had con¬ 
ceived, by the fignals put on the maft-heads, that the King’s 
expedition againft his enemies was over; but thofe in the 
pinnace rather fuppofed them to be placed there either to 
deter 
