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that the men of Britain were /Irong and ma- ny, he retired from them.

3 8. Then Lincoln the chief captain, fcnt three hundred of the men who followed after him, to help the people who were with Moultrie,

19. But the greater part of the people fol- lowed after Lincoln^ who was minded to go to the chief town of the Province of Gorgia.

20. But when he was told that Prevosi the chief captain of the king's fervants, was on his way to the chief town*' in the province of the South, then he purfued after him, even to Charleilown.

2 1 . Now the men of Britain took the high- way along the fea-coafl, and Moultrie and the men who were with him, retired from the fervants of the king.

22. And the men of Britain went on their way and the inhabitants of the town made


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