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SECTION III.
IT would be to no Purpoſe in this ſhort Hiſtory to give a long and trifling Account of my Voyages in Order of Time, which would ſerve only to weary the Reader, without preſenting him with Matters delightful and curious; therefore, Purſuing of the Plan at firſt propoſed, I ſhall continue only to remark thoſe Incidents that happened to me and Companions, which I judge may be muſt entertaining, paſſing by a Number of Things of ſmall Conſequence, as unworthy of Notice. So begging the Indulgence of my charitable Readers, I ſhall continue to narrate Facts without Order.
On the 26th of November, 1758, I ſailed from Greenock Road, a Board the Deniſton Snow, Captain Collin Campbell, Commander, under Convoy of the Tranſports bound for the Weſt Indies, our Ship being bound for Charles Town in South Carolina. The very Night we ſet Sail we had a hard Gale of Wind, and our Ship being weakly manned, our Sails that Night beat to Pieces, before we cleared the Coaſt of Scotland. When Day-light came, we could ſee none of the Tranſports, but perceived the Man of War (Ludlow Caſtle, a 40 Gun Ship) lying too under a Balance Mizen, waiting on the Reſt of the Fleet, which we ſuppoſe were ſcattered and put in, ſome into Ireland, and others into the Harbours in Scotland. We were going under a Fore-ſail, and thought for to have laid too for the Man of War, but the Storm being ſo great, and the Wind fair for us, being at S. E. we eaſed our Fore Sheet, and put our Helm hard a Weather, and bore away right before it.We
