NUMBER II.
HAVING in my firſt part, given a diſcription of my life; and how I came to be a ſailor, I ſhall now give a relation of my advenoturs, of what I ſeed, did, and was witneſs unto, which the readers may depend upon as real certainties.
At we ſailed one time out of Greenock with my own captain an ſhip the Mattie, with whom I was bound, being armed as a letter of marque ſixteen carriag guns twenty eight ſweevels, and thirty-ſix men before the maſt; it being in the time of ware in 1747. And as we left Clyd, the wind proved conterary ſo that we had with many more ſhips for our ſafety, to put into lochryan; this lochryan lies on the weſt of Galaway in Scotland, is bounded with high mountains round about eſpecialy on the north, it has entrence from the ſea, by a narrow mouth on the weſt, good ancuring ground where ſhips can ride in ſafity in all weather; and here we lay for ſome time. So it hapened one day, that our captain being aſhore in the town of Stonerawer, which ſtands on the eaſt end of the loch. In which time of his abſenc, he Boyn tender commanded by captain Gentle, came into the loch about midnight, and it being in the month of October, and the weather being very cold, they went from ſhip to ſhip, and catched the moſt of the hands in bed, but we having our watch on deck, which gave our crew the alarm, ſo that we all run to arms, and fired upon their boats, and beat them off fairly, their captain deſired on his word of honour, to
