Page:Of the history and travels of Hector Maclean, late sailor.pdf/6

 AVING in my firt part, given a dicriptiondeſcription [sic] of my life; and how I came to be a ailor, I hall now give a relation of my advenotursadventures [sic], of what I eed, did, and was witnes unto, which the readers may depend upon as real certainties.

At we ailed one time out of Greenock with my own captain an hip the Mattie, with whom I was bound, being armed as a letter of marque ixteen carriagcarriage [sic] guns twenty eight, and thirty-ix men before the mat; it being in the time of ware in 1747. And as we left Clyd, the wind proved conterarycontrary [sic] o that we had with many more hips for our afety, to put into lochryan; this lochryan lies on the wet of Galaway in Scotland, is bounded with high mountains round about epecialyeſpecially [sic] on the north, it has entrenceentrance [sic] from the ea, by a narrow mouth on the wet, good ancuringanchoring [sic] ground where hips can ride in afity in all weather; and here we lay for ome time. So it happened one day, that our captain being ahore in the town of Stonerawer, which tands on the eat end of the loch. In which time of his abencabſence [sic], he Boyn tender commanded by captain Gentle, came into the loch about midnight, and it being in the month of October, and the weather being very cold, they went from hip to hip, and catched the mot of the hands in bed, but we having our watch on deck, which gave our crew the alarm, o that we all run to arms, and fired upon their boats, and beat them off fairly, their captain deired on his word of honour, to