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iity they were in of careening and cleaning their Ship ;
that it was too long a Run for them to go to the South-
ward, and that they had not Provifions to ferve them
till they could reach to any Place proper for that Pur-
pofe, and might be driven to the utmoft Diftrefs, if
they (hould be put by from Watering, either by Wea-
ther or Enemies.
Alfo he told them, if any of the Men of War came
out in Search of them, they would never imagine they
were gone away to the Northward, fo that their Run
that Way was perfeftly fecure : And he could aflure
them of his own Knowledge, that if they landed in
fuch Places as he fhould direft, they could not fail of a
confiderable Booty in plund'ring fome Gentlemen's
Houfes, who liv'd fecure and unguarded very near the
Shore : And that tho' the Country fiiould be alarm'd,
yet before the Governm.ent could fend any Man of
War to attack them, they might clean their Ship, l?y
in a fiore of frefh Provifions, and be gone j and be-
fides that, they would get a good many ftout Fellows to
go along with them, upon his Encouragement; fo that
they fhould be better Mann'd than they were yet, and
ftould be ready againft all Events.
Thefe Arguments, and their approaching Fate con-
curring, had a fufficient Influence on the Ship's Com-
pany to prevail on them to confent .• So they made the
beft of their Way to the Northward, and about the
middle of JdiiKary they arriv'd at Carrijioan, in the
Ifles of Orkney, and came to an Anchor in a Place which
(?o^^; told them was fafe riding under the Lee of a fmall
Ifland at fome Diftance from the Port.
Gonij being now fole Direftor, as well as Commander
of the Ship, call'd them all together, to tell them whtt
Account they fhould give of theinfelves, when th> y
came to converfe with any of the People of the Iflan(,
that they might agree in their Story, and give no Cau %
of Sufpicion ; and 'tis moft certain, that had they been
careful to cbferve his Direftion.c, and net betray'd and
expos'd therafelves, they might have palTed undifcover'd,
and