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 come on board himelf only, which we did allow, but none of his men with whom we expotuatedexpoſtulated [sic] the matter how unreaonable it was to pres men outward bond, who had protections, and in their captains abence, and having a deal of his hands preed from him before that, while he lay at the tail of the bank below Greenock; to which the aid captain Gentle replied, that he would only take a man out of every five of them, to which one Ninian Stewart a furious mad fellow, who tood all the time in the gang way, with his cutlescutlaſs [sic] in his hand wore bloodily if he touched a man there, he would cut off both his arms, and kick him over board, then aid the captain to the mate, if you’ll give me that fellow I’ll eek no more, o command your men to obey your orders, to which the mate anwered he was but one man; and they being o enraged, could oon command him: then aid he I'll engage the hip as oon as I go aboard, which he accordingly did, and he began to fire upon us, and we in return did the ame but finding we were too many for them, dropeddropped [sic] the quarelquarrel [sic], and eing the captain was not an board, they haled up the boats and went ahore with their mall arms to defeddefend [sic] themelves if need hould be, the tender eeing this, manedmanned [sic] their boats and went after them to Stonrawer, but durt not atackattack [sic] them for they drew up on the hore where they all loaded, and told they reolved to die every man or one of them hould be taken, our captain came on board directly for fear of his hip and one of their boats and the lievtenantlieutenant [sic] came on board again, and aked the captain where he had his men, to which he aid he had frighted them all away but the mate one boy and