Streight of Magellan to Cape Monday
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but seeing the stranger get under way, and work up towards us, I ran directly over into Gregory Bay, and brought the ship to an anchor, with a spring upon our cable: I also got eight of our guns, which were all we could get at, out of the hold, and brought them over on one side. In the mean time the ship continued to work up towards us, and various were our conjectures about her, for she showed no colours, neither did we. It happened about this time that the store-ship as she was endeavouring to come to an anchor near us, ran aground; upon which the stranger came to an anchor a little way astern, at the same time hoisting French colours, and sending his launch, and another boat, with an anchor to assist her. Still however I showed no colours, but sent my own boats, and a boat of the Tamar’s, to assist the store-ship, giving orders at the same time to the officers, not to suffer the French boats to come on board her, but to thank them in polite terms for the assistance they intended. These orders were punctually obeyed, and with the assistance of our own boats only, the store-ship was soon after got off: my people reported that the French ship was full of men, and seemed to have a great number of officers on board.
At six o’clock in the evening, I made the signal and weighed; we worked through the second Narrow, and at ten o’clock passed the west end of it: at eleven, we anchored in seven fathom off Elizabeth’s Island; and the French ship at the same time anchored in a bad situation, to the southward of Saint Bartholomew’s Island, which convinced me that she was not acquainted with the channel.
At six o’clock the next morning, I weighed and sailed between Elizabeth and Bartholomew Islands, with the wind at N.W. and after steering S.S.W. five or six miles, we crossed a bank, where among the weeds we had seven fathom
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© Derived from Volume I of the London 1773 Edition: National Library of Australia call no. FERG 7243, page 61, 2004
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