Accidents > Dangers of the deep, or, Narratives of shipwreck and adventure at sea

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ing to the ship were so kind as to send us oft
victuals every day, or we might have starved;
for Monsieur L’Intendant never sent us even a
message; and though there was a very large
squadron of men of war fitting out at that
time, not one officer belonging to them ever
came near Captain Cheap. From five in the
evening we were obliged to sit in the dark ;
and if we chose to have any supper, it was
necessary to place it very near us before that
time, or we never could have found it. We
had passed seven or eight days in this me¬
lancholy manner, when one morning a kind
of row-galley came alongside, with a number
of English prisoners belonging to two large
privateers the French had taken. We were
ordered into the same boat with them, and
were carried four leagues up the river to Lan-
demaw. At this town we were upon our
parole; so took the best lodgings we could
get, and lived very well for three months,
when an order came from the court of Spain
to allow us to return home by the first ship
that offered. Upon this, hearing there was
a Dutch ship at Morlaix ready to sail, we
took horses and travelled to that town, where
we were obliged to remain six weeks, before