as the wind was foutherly, and blew frefh, fhe was in great
danger, for the Cove was not only fmall, but full o f rocks,
and open to the fouth-eafterly winds.
All the day following, and all the night, we had hard
gales, with a great fea, and much hail and rain. The next
morning we had gufts fo violent, that it was impoilible to
Hand the d e ck ; they brought whole fheets of water all the
way from Cape Notch, which was a league diftant,. quite
over the deck. They did not laft more than a minute, but
were fo frequent, that the cables were kept in a conftant
ftrain, and there was the greateft reafon to. fear that they
would give way. It was a general opinion that the Swallow
could not poffibly ride it out, and fome o f the men were fo
ftrongly prepofleffed with the notion of her being loft, that
they fancied they faw lome o f her people coming over the
rocks towards our fhip. The weather continued fo bad, till
Saturday 7. Saturday the feventh, that we could fend no boat to enquire
after h e r ; but the gale being then more moderate, a boat
•was difpatched about four o’clock in the morning, which,
about the fame hour in the afternoon, returned with an account
that the fhip was fafe, but that the fatigue o f the people
had been incredible, the whole crew having been upon
the deck near three days and three nights. At midnight the
gufts returned, though not with equal violence, with hail,
fleet, and fnow. The weather being now extremely cold, and
Sunday 8. t^ie People never dry, I got up, the next morning, eleven
bales o f thick woollen fluff, called Fearnought, which is
provided by the government, and fet all the taylors to work
to make them into jackets, of which every man in the fhip
had one. I
I ordered thefe jackets to be made very large, allowing, one
with another, two yards and thirty-four inches of the cloth
1767.
March.
Tuefday 3.
Wednef. 4.
to
to each jacket. I fent alfo feven bales o f the fame cloth to 1767.
the Swallow, which made every man on board a jacket o f ■ arc- ' ■
the fame k ind; and I cut up three bales of finer cloth, and. 3at“rday 7'
made jackets for the officers of both fhips, which I had. the
pleafure to find were very acceptable.
In this fituation we were obliged to continue a week,
during which time, I put- both my o.wn fhip, and the Swallow,
upon two-thirds allowance, except brandy; but continued
the breakfaft as, long as greens and water were plenty.
On Sunday the 15th, about noon, we faw the Swallow Sunday 1;..
under fail, and it being calm, we fent our launch to-affift
her. In the evening the launch returned, having towed her
into a very good harbour on the fouth ffiore, oppofite to
where we lay. The account that we received of this harbour,
determined us to get-into it as foon as poffible; the
next morning therefore, at eight o’clock, we failed from
Good Luck bay, and thought ourfelves happy to get fafe out
of it. When we got a-breaft o f the harbour where the Swallow
lay, we fired feveral guns, as fignals for her boats to
affift us in getting in-; and in a fhort time the mafter came
onboard us, and piloted' us to a very commodious ftation,
where we anchored in 28 fathom, with a muddy bottom.
This harbour, which is fheltered from all winds, and excellent
in every refpedt, we called S w a l l o w H a r b o u r . There
are two channels into it, which are both narrow, but not
dangerous, as the rocks are eafily. difcovered by the. weeds
that grow upon them.
At nine o’clock the next morning, the wind coming^eaft- iv:0„dayJ5..
erly, we weighed, and failed from Swallow harbour. At
noon we took the Swallow in tow, but at five there being-
little wind, we caft off the tow. At eight in the evening,
the boats which had, been fent out to look for anchorage,-
returned-
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