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AN ACCOUNT OF 
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SEPTEMBER* 
Tuefday 23. 
Wednefday 
24. 
Thurfday 
25. 
Friday 26. 
Engli/by his delicacy was hurt, left, by not coming to ex-- 
prefs his acknowledgments for their late fervices fo foon 
as he had promifed, they might be inclined to impute to 
him a forgetfulnefs of thofe obligations he felt he had to 
them. 
The pinnace having been fent this day to the wreck, at 
her return in the evening brought lixteen more bags of 
rice, and alfo information that the King had fent his canoes 
thither, and had carried away one of the fix-pounders. 
About noon to-day there was a heavy fquall from the 
northward, accompanied with hard rain and much light¬ 
ning from the eaftward. 
The planking of the veflel was now forwarded with great 
afliduity; they brought from the wreck this day a quan¬ 
tity of nails and fome fheets of copper ; it having been 
in contemplation to fheath the bottom of their new veflel,. 
which was not above one ftxth of the fize of the Ante¬ 
lope ; but this idea was very foon abandoned, for want of 
a fufficiency of copper nails to effecft the purpofe.—No ca¬ 
noes were feen on board to-day, but a prodigious furf broke 
upon the reef. 
Nothing occurred but the continued progrefs of the 
veflel.—-The jolly-boat was fent to fifli, but, without fuc- 
cefs. It was lingular that this was always the cafe; whe¬ 
ther our countrymen knew not the proper places to go 
to. 
