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 A VOYAGE TO Guinea, Brasil, and the West-Indies; In His Majesty’s Ships, the Swallow, and Weymouth, &c.

E took in eight Months Provisions each, at Portsmouth; Stores, Careening-Geer, and Necessaries requisite to continue us a double Voyage down the Coast of Guinea, for meeting, if possible, with the Pyrates; who did then very much infest those Parts, and destroy our Trade and Factories. Accordingly the Company's Governors for Gambia and other Places, embark’d under our Convoy, and were to have what Support we could give them, in restoring the Credit of the Royal African Company; which begun now to take new life under the Influence of the Duke of Chandois.

For this Purpose we set sail from Spithead February 5th, 1720/21.

It is a Pleasure we have beyond the Merchant-Service in sailing, that we are forbid