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Voyage to the Jlrait o f Gibraltar — Cuftom o f the Sailors — Our
PaJfaSe through the fr a it — /l. fpecies o f porpufs dfcribt’d —■
1Thefunfet remarkable — Antient accounts o f it — The caufe.
WE embarked at Gravefend on the ninth of June 1764
in the Anglicana, an A£t fhip, carrying fixteen guns»
and thirty two men, burthen about three hundred
tons. The commander was captain John Stewart; the price of
our palfage to Turkey fixty guineas. We had a fair wind, but
■ our pilot being in liquor did not fail that evening.
I T N Whitfunday, early in the morning, we got under way
with a brilk gale, and arrived in the Downs about noon. The
next day we weighed anchor again, and proceeded to Falmouth
to complete our cargo. We were detained there from the feven-
teenth to the twenty fourth, when we recovered our anchor
with fome difficulty, and got clear of the harbour. A fignal was
made for a pilot, but he did not come on board foon enough to
be of ufe.
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