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　　Our men, seeing so many of them, began to be frightened, for we laybut in an ill posture to fight, and cried out to us to know whatthey should do. I immediately called to the men that worked uponthe stages to slip them down, and get up the side into the ship,and bade those in the boat to row round and come on board. The fewwho were on board worked with all the strength and hands we had tobring the ship to rights; however, neither the men upon the stagesnor those in the boats could do as they were ordered before theCochin Chinese were upon them, when two of their boats boarded ourlongboat, and began to lay hold of the men as their prisoners.

　　IT was in the latitude of 27 degrees 5 minutes N., on the 19th dayof March 1694-95, when we spied a sail, our course SE. and by S.We soon perceived it was a large vessel, and that she bore up tous, but could not at first know what to make of her, till, aftercoming a little nearer, we found she had lost her main-topmast,fore-mast, and bowsprit; and presently she fired a gun as a signalof distress. The weather was pretty good, wind at NNW. a freshgale, and we soon came to speak with her. We found her a ship ofBristol, bound home from Barbadoes, but had been blown out of theroad at Barbadoes a few days before she was ready to sail, by aterrible hurricane, while the captain and chief mate were both goneon shore; so that, besides the terror of the storm, they were in anindifferent case for good mariners to bring the ship home. Theyhad been already nine weeks at sea, and had met with anotherterrible storm, after the hurricane was over, which had blown themquite out of their knowledge to the westward, and in wh

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