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48 came aboard with ixteen tout Fellows, and joined the Company.

When our Gentry aw that all was clear, they ecured the Hatches, o went to work; they did not lip the Anchor, but weigh’d it leiurely, and o put to Sea without any Diorder or Confuion, tho’ there were everal Ships then lying in the Bay, and among them a Dutch Frigate of forty Guns, the Captain of which was offered a great Reward to go out after her; but Mynheer, who perhaps would not have been willing to have been erved o himelf could not be prevail’d upon to give uch Uage to another, and o let Mr. Avery purue his Voyage, whither he had a Mind to.

The Captain, who by this Time, was awaked, either by the Motion of the Ship, or the Noie of working the Tackles, rung the Bell; Avery and two others went into the Cabin; the Captain, half aleep, and in a kind of Fright, ak’d, Avery anwered cooly, ; the Captain replied,  Thinking nothing les then that it had been a Storm, and that the Ship was driven from her Anchors:, anwered Avery,. ays the Captain,, ays Avery,

The Captain having a little recovered his Senes, began to apprehend the meaning; however, his Fright was as great as before, which Avery perceiving, bad him fear nothing, for, ays he, if you have