CHAP. XIV.
of
Captain George Lowther,
And his Crew.
George Lowther ſailed out of the River of Thames, in one of the Royal African Company’s Ships, call’d the Gambia Caſtle, of 16 Guns and 30 Men, Charles Ruſſel Commander; of which Ship, the ſaid Lowther was ſecond Mate. Aboard of the ſame Ship, was a certain Number of Soldiers, commanded by one John Maſſey, who were to be carried to one of the Company’s Settlements, on the River of Gambia, to Garriſon a Fort, which was ſometime ago taken and deſtroy’d by Captain Davis the Pyrate.
In May 1721, the Gambia Caſtle came ſafe to her Port in Africa, and landed Captain Maſſey and his Men on James’s Iſland, where he was to Command under the Governor, Colonel Whitney, who arrived there at the ſame Time, in another Ship: And here, by a fatal Miſunderſtanding, between the military Folks and the Trading People, the Fort and Garriſon not only came to be loſt again to the Company, but a fine Galley well provided, and worth 10000 l. turned againſt her Maſters.
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