I?&î- foould: come up with her Ions before foe sot thither, as V
February. - r 0 . °
i---8—_> intended to follow her as foon as the Tamar was ready, and
Wednef. 13. Qaptajn Mouat had told me-that, the rudder having been
patched together by the joint labour and fkiM of-the carpenter
and fmith, he foould be in a condition to proceed with
me the next morning.
Thursday 14. The next morning we accordingly ppt. to fea,. and a few.
hours afterwards being abreaft of, Penguin Ifland, we. faw
tjie ftore-foip a long way to the eaftward.
Saturday 16. On Saturday the 16th, about fix o’clock in the-morning,.
we faw Cape Fairweather bearing W. S. W.. at.the diflance o f
five orfixleagues ; and at nine, we faw a flkange fail.to-the:
N. W. flan ding after us.
Sunday 17. On t]le 17th, at fix in the morning. Cape Virgin Mary
bearing fouth, disant five miles, we hauled in for the
Straight, and the, ftrange foip ît ilï followed ùs.
Monday 18. On the i 8tl>- we pafièd the fir ft Narrow,, andc as F.-perceivedi
the ftrange foip to have foaped.the fame eeunfe: that we had*-
from the time fhe had firft feen us, fhortqning or making,
fail as we did, foe became the fubjeft o f much fpeculation ;
and as 1 was obliged, after I had got through- the firft Narrows,
to bring to forthe ftore-foip, which-was ,a great w ay aftem, F
imagined foe would fpeak with us, and therefore I put the
fhipin the beft-order I could. As foon as he had paffed' the
Narrow, and faw me lying to, he did the fame about four
miles to windward of me. In this fituation we remained till
night came onf and the tide fetting us over to the fouth
foore, we came to an anchor ; the wind however foifted before
morning, and at day-break I faw our fatellite at anchor
about three leagues to leeward o f us. As it was then tide o f
Rood, I thought of working through the fécond Narrow ;
s but
but feeing the ftranger get under way, attd-work up towards i76S-
usj I ran dire<5lly over into Gregory Bay, arid brought the ,Feb' “y -,
foip to an anchor, with a fpring upon our cable: I; alfo got Mo”da7 |8,
eight o f our guns-, Which Were all- we could get at, out: o f the
hold, and brought them over on one fide'. In the mean time,
the foip continued:to work up towards us,- and various were
our conjectures about her, for foe foewed no colours, neither
did we. It happened about this time that the ftore-foip,
as foe was endeavouring to come to an-anchor'near us, ran
aground ; upon which the ftrangcr came to an anchor a little
way- aftefU, at the fame time- holding- French colours, and;
fending his launch, and - another boat, with an anchor to
affift her. Still however I foowed no colours, but fent my
own boats, and a boat o f the Tamar’s, to affift the ftore-foip,
giving orders at the fame time to the officers, not to fuffer
tlic French boats' to come on board her, but to thank them
in polite terms for the affiflance they intended. Thfefe:or-
ders- were- puiuftually obeyed,- and with the affiftanGe o f our
own boats only, the ftore-foip was foon after got off: my-
people reported that the French foip was full o f men, and
fqemed to have a great number of officers on board.
At fix o’clock-in the evening, I made the fignal and
weighed; we worked through the fecond Narrow, and at
ten-o'clock paffed the weft end o f it: at eleven, we anchored
in feven fathom-off Elizabeth’s Ifland ; and the Flench foip
at the fame time anchored in a bad fituation, to the fouth-
ward o f Saint Bartholomew's Ifland, which convinced me
that foe was not acquainted with the channel.
At fix o’clock the next morning, I weighed and failed be- TueBay 19;
tween Elizabeth and Bartholomew Iflands, with the wind at
N. W. and after fleering S. S. W. five or fix miles, we crofted
a bank, where among the weeds we had- feven fathom
-water.