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 Sir aid he, and if you'll put about to ea you will get her yet: o away we came curing Gilbert a high rate, and in a hort time we came in ight of a French privrteerprivateer [sic], which had taken an Englih hip and was carrying her into Spain, gives them chace and takes them both. This made many of the Englih ailors believe, that many of the Scots were divels, or more than than men.

There was a little Irih boy aboard of ahip, which made many admire him for his ready wit, it blowing very hard one day, and the boy being taking up ome alt water to wah the kettle, the kettle drops over board, the Mate eeing this, was taking up a rope to beat him with, top top, cryscries [sic] the boy, dontdon't [sic] beat me dear Mate, untilluntil [sic] I tell the Captain of it, the Mate follows him to the cabin door, to hear what excue he would make for himelf; arra dear Captain, ays the boy, is a thing lot when people knows where it is? no irrah! aid he, how can it be lot, when you know where it is? Ah: then dear Captain, then your tea kettle is fallen into the loch and I cannot get at it, this made the Captain and Mate, both to laugh heartily at the jockjoke [sic], and forgive the poor boy.

An account of two hips bound for New-found Land, from ome part in the Wet of England, whom by ditres of Weather, lot Company; ome days after, being bad weather, one of the hips prang a leak, and foundredfoundered [sic] in the Sea, where every Soul perihed, except one old man, who had laht himelf on the main hatch, and committed himelf to the mercy of the Sea and