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 T would be to no Purpoe in this hort Hitory to give a long and trifling Account of my Voyages in Order of Time, which would erve only to weary the Reader, without preenting him with Matters delightful and curious; therefore, Puruing of the Plan at firt propoed, I hall continue only to remark thoe Incidents that happened to me and Companions, which I judge may be mutmoſt [sic] entertaining, paing by a Number of Things of mall Conequence, as unworthy of Notice. So begging the Indulgence of my charitable Readers, I hall continue to narrate Facts without Order.

On the 26th of November, 1758, I ailed from Greenock Road, a Board the DenitonDennistoun [sic] Snow, Captain Collin Campbell, Commander, under Convoy of the Tranports bound for the Wet Indies, our Ship being bound for Charles Town in South Carolina. The very Night we et Sail we had a hard Gale of Wind, and our Ship being weakly manned, our Sails that Night beat to Pieces, before we cleared the Coat of Scotland. When Day-light came, we could ee none of the Tranports, but perceived the Man of War (Ludlow Catle, a 40 Gun Ship) lying too under a Balance Mizen, waiting on the Ret of the Fleet, which we uppoe were cattered and put in, ome into Ireland, and others into the Harbours in Scotland. We were going under a Fore-ail, and thought for to have laid too for the Man of War, but the Storm being o great, and the Wind fair for us, being at S. E. we eaed our Fore Sheet, and put our Helm hard a Weather, and bore away right before it.