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 on Board, for it was high Time to put their Project in Execution.

As oon as Maey received this Letter, he went to the Soldiers at the Barracks, and aid to them, and others, ; and they generally conenting, Maey went to the Store-Room, burt open the Door, et two Centinels upon it, and ordered that no Body hould come near it; then he went to the Governor’s Apartment, and took his Bed, Baggage, Plate and Furniture, (in Expectation that the Governor himelf, as he had promied Maey, would have gone on Board, which he afterwards refued, by Reaon, as he aid, he believed they were going a-pyrating; which at firt, whatever Lowther deigned, Maey certainly propoed only the going to England;) when this was done, he ent the Boat off to the chief Mate, with this Meage, [a Negro Kingdom near the Royal African Settlement]  But Lowther undertanding bet, the meaning of thoe Orders, he confined the chief Mate, hotted the Guns, and put the Ship in a Condition for ailing. In the Afternoon Maey came on Board with the Governor’s Son, having ent off all the Proviions of the Iland, and eleven Pipes of Wine, leaving only two half Pipes behind in the Store-Houe, and dimounted all the Guns of the Fort.

In the Afternoon they weigh’d one Anchor, but fearing to be too late to get out of the River, they lipp’d the other, and o fell down; in doing of which, they run the Ship a-ground. Maey hew’d himelf a Soldier upon this Accident, for as oon as the Mifortune happen’d, he left the Ship with about ixteen Hands, and rows directly to the Fort, remounts the Guns, and keeps Garrion