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Eorge Lowther ailed out of the River of Thames, in one of the Royal African Company’s Ships, call’d the Gambia Catle, of 16 Guns and 30 Men, Charles Ruel Commander; of which Ship, the aid Lowther was econd Mate. Aboard of the ame Ship, was a certain Number of Soldiers, commanded by one John Maey, who were to be carried to one of the Company’s Settlements, on the River of Gambia, to Garrion a Fort, which was ometime ago taken and detroy’d by Captain Davis the Pyrate.

In May 1721, the Gambia Catle came afe to her Port in Africa, and landed Captain Maey and his Men on James’s Iland, where he was to Command under the Governor, Colonel Whitney, who arrived there at the ame Time, in another Ship: And here, by a fatal Miundertanding, between the military Folks and the Trading People, the Fort and Garrion not only came to be lot again to the Company, but a fine Galley well provided, and worth 10000 l. turned againt her Maters.