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fufficiently for fuch an Undertaking; and likewife, that
they had not fufficient Stores of Ammunition, efpecially
of Powder and fmall Arms, for any confiderable Aftion
with the Spaniards.
Then it was offered by the Boatfwain, who it feema
had been in that Part of the World, to go away to
Honduras, and to the Bay of Campeachey, among the
Buccaneers and Logwood Cutters, and there they ftiould
in the firft Place be fure to pick up forty or fifty ftout
Fellows, good Sailors, and bold, entcrprizing Men, who
underftand the Spaniards, and the Spanijh Coaft on
both Sides of America, as well as any Men in the World,
and had all Fire Anns with them, and Ammunition
too, and then being well Mann'd, they might take
their hazard for Provifions, which might be had any
where, at leaft of one Sort if not of another ; befides,
when they were thoroughly Mann'd, they might cruize
for Provifions any where, and might be as likely to
meet with the Neiv-Tork and Neiv-Eiigla;:d Sloops on
the back of the Iflands, in their Way to Barbadoes and
Jamaica, as any where.
Others faid they (hould go firft to the Iflands of Nenxs-
Pro-vidence, or to the Mouth of the Gulph of Fbrida,
and then crazing on the Coaft of i^orth-America, and
making their Retreat at Neiu-Prmjidence, cruize from
the Gulf of Florida, North upon the Coaft of Caro-
lina, and as high as the Capes of Virginia. But no-
thing could be refolv'd on, till at laft Gow let them
into the Secret of a Projedl, which, as he told them,
he had long had in his Thoughts, and which was, to
go away to the North of Scotland, near the Coaft of
which, as he faid, he was born and bred, and where
he faid, if they met with no Purchafe upon the Ssa, he
could tell them how to enrich themfelves by going oa
Shore.
To bring them to concur with this Defign, he re-
prefented the Danger they were in where they were,
(as above) the Want they were in of frelh Water, and
of feveral kind of Provifions, but above all, the Necef-
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