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they attempt'd to put before the Wind they would be overwhelm'd before she could be brought by the Wind on the other Tack: by Noon we were out of sight of each other. During the Night of the 22:d the Storm was unabating, the Ship laying to under a Mizzen Staysail, labouring much, and lurching very deep. In the Morning, the Wind being at West, set the Foresail and kept away North, to ease the Ship, and endeavour, if possible, to save the Government Stock that had suffer'd much during the Night. On the 23:d in the Afternoon, being in with the Land, and both the Government Cows having died, veered Ship and stood off Shore. The Wind now moderated so that we could carry our Topsails and Courses. From this till the 27th we continued plying to Windward with the Wind generally from the South West: the Wind then shifted to the Eastward which brought us to the Westward of Kents Group; when it again veered round in a heavy Squall to the South West; we now bore up, and entering the West end of the Sound, Anchord in Eastern Cove, with the Best Bower, in eight fathoms, over a sandy bottom, and veered to half a Cable. We found here the Francis at Anchor where she had been a day and a half. At the time we bore up and ran to the Northward, to ease the Ship, and endeavour to save the Government Stock, the Francis was much to the Eastward of the Buffalo, and kept standing to the Southward, so that when the Wind came to the Southward, being close in with the Sisters, she fetched Kents Group. In the heavy Gale on the 22:d the Francis had the princapal [principal] part of her Stock and many other things washed away: one Man was washed overboard, but fortunately got in again: her Boat was driven from the Chocks and saved by the Lee-Gangway-Stanchion going through her bottom.
From 4 P.M. on the 28:th, at which time we Anchor'd in Eastern Cove, until the 2:d of November it blew a strong Gale from the Westward, with frequent heavy Squalls. At 10 A.M. on the 3:d being moderate and the Wind at West we warped the Ship out of the Cove and made sail in company with the Francis: by Evening our consort was far astern, of