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 86 loose; and the men were yet confounded (in this new way) in the names of the ropes.

"By these disadvantages, the black boat got to tack about before her, whereof she was so proud, as that making too daringly in the eye of the wind, the violence of it snapped off their boom by the board, and so the cylinders soon passed her by leaving her to make a pole with the part broken, which helped them to get home by setting.

"As for the barge she was so distressed by too much wind, and the disorder of her sails did entangle her, so that Darcy's boat, that sailed out the full course, was at a great distance off, laboring in the wind. The barge was near half a mile short, and the black boat could sail no more.

"So that the Præmium was taken down by Sir William Petty's men; and now they bear it in the main top as Admiral of the Cylinders.

"This is a true state of the day's expedition; for the better knowledge of which Mr. Soutwall did then, at the match, sail in her, and does report, that for strength of her contexture, he never did perceive the first tendence to a divulsion of the cylinders, but that, on the contrary, the waves that rose up big and strong, fell mostly on them, for their rounded shapes made all the force slide away on each side, so as not to make the least contusion or balsery, and he says, that the objection of her being wind-taught lies much more strongly against her; but for this Sir William avouches a perfect remedy, and that greater vessels shall be less subject to it than small ones.