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heard from afar, and there v/as a terrible clalhing of arms!

II. Andi Henry y when he faw that there were valiant men in the hold, he forbore to go forth : and the battle .'continued for the fpace of ten hours, and the llain and wound- ed in the (hips were more than tv/o hundred men. And it cams to pafs that a ball fronx the deflroying engines fmote Peter on the hinder parts, and maimed him.

1 2. And the llain an<] wounded in the hold, were one fcore £,nd twelve perfons. And the captain of the men of war who w^ere in the hold, gat great honor, and the fortrefs* was called by his name, to commemorate his vali- ant a£ls.

13. And the mariners that were in the fhips were commanded by Peter^ while it was yet night, to flip the cables, and efcapc down the river; for the fhips were much damaged by the deflroying engines,


 * Fort Moukrie.

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