the Sails, or weigh her Anchor; and Roberts being ignorant of the Occaſion or Alteration of the firſt Deſign, fell into the Mouth of Danger, when he thought himſelf the fartheſt from it; for the Men of War not endeavouring to attain further to Windward (when they came from Princes) then to ſecure Cape Corſo Road under their Lee, they luckily hovered in the Track he had took.
The Swallow and Weymouth fell in with the Continent at Cape Appollonia, Octo. 20th, and there received the ungrateful News from one Captain Bird; a Notice that awaken’d and put them on their Guard; but they were far from expecting any Temerity ſhould ever bring him a ſecond Time on the Coaſt, while they were there; therefore the Swallow having ſeen the Weymouth into Cape Corſo Road Nov. 10th, ſhe ply’d to Windward as far as Baſſam, rather as an Airing to recover a ſickly Ship’s Company, and ſhew herſelf to the Trade, which was found every where undiſturb’d, and were, for that Reaſon, returning to her Conſort, when accidently meeting a Portugueſe Ship, ſhe told her, that the Day before ſhe ſaw two Ships Chace into Junk, an Engliſh Veſſel, which ſhe believed muſt have fallen into their Hands. On this Story, the Swallow clung her Wind, and endeavoured to gain that Place, but receiving ſoon after (Octo. the 14th) a contrary Report from Captain Plummer, an intelligent Man, in the Jaſon of Briſtol, who had come further to Windward, and neither ſaw or heard any Thing of this; ſhe turned her Head down the ſecond Time, anchored at Cape Appollonia the 23d, at Cape Tres Puntas the 27th, and in Corſo Road January the 7th, 1721-2.
They learned that their Conſort the Weymouth, was, by the Aſſiſtance of ſome Soldiers from the Caſtle, gone to Windward, to demand Reſtiſtution of ſome Goods or Men belonging to the
