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Sir ſaid he, and if you'll put about to ſea you will get her yet: ſo away we came curſing Gilbert a high rate, and in a ſhort time we came in ſight of a French privrteer, which had taken an Engliſh ſhip and was carrying her into Spain, gives them chace and takes them both. This made many of the Engliſh ſailors believe, that many of the Scots were divels, or more than than men.
There was a little Iriſh boy aboard of aſhip, which made many admire him for his ready wit, it blowing very hard one day, and the boy being taking up ſome ſalt water to waſh the kettle, the kettle drops over board, the Mate ſeeing this, was taking up a rope to beat him with, ſtop ſtop, crys the boy, dont beat me dear Mate, untill I tell the Captain of it, the Mate follows him to the cabin door, to hear what excuſe he would make for himſelf; arra dear Captain, ſays the boy, is a thing loſt when people knows where it is? no ſirrah! ſaid he, how can it be loſt, when you know where it is? Ah: then dear Captain, then your tea kettle is fallen into the loch and I cannot get at it, this made the Captain and Mate, both to laugh heartily at the jock, and forgive the poor boy.
An account of two ſhips bound for New-found Land, from ſome part in the Weſt of England, whom by diſtreſs of Weather, loſt Company; ſome days after, being bad weather, one of the ſhips ſprang a leak, and foundred in the Sea, where every Soul periſhed, except one old man, who had laſht himſelf on the main hatch, and committed himſelf to the mercy of the Sea and
