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 French; but was relieved by a cartel and ent over with a flag of truce, in a coonerſchooner [sic] commanded by one Captain Birk an Irihman, who had amind to deliver us every man into the fleet, then riding off kingtown in which we no ooner undertood by his behaviour when coming within ight of the fleet, we then lower’d down his ails put out the boat, and came ahore about 13 miles below kington, he for fear of but made his appologyapology [sic], that we did very well in o doing, for in taking the boat ourelves we aved his oath, as he was worn to deliver us to the Admiral. We were no ooner on hore than we called at the firt publick houe we could find and refrehed ourelves, the land-lord of which aked us if we were prioners of war, to which we anwered, we was; then aid he, I have orders to take you all up for the ervice of the navy, we boldly aked him by whom he would do o? He told us, he had three hundred negroes; then we all drew our knives, and wore we would cut the hearts out of him and his negroes both before one of us were taken, we being in all about fifty men, but had no armour but our knives: from thence we et out through woods, and over the high blue mountains being affraid to go near Rockfort let the oldiers hould ally out upon us, o we came that night to a wild plantation where there was a black negroe’s wedding, with about five hundred negroes at it, and not a white person amongt them all. we was greatly affraid of them being o many in number, let they hould kill us in the night time, but they proved very kind gave us bread and rum, and hewed us the right road in the morning. We next