The next day (23rd March) with the new tailored frigate of Tolou, and
his _Bear_, we set sail towards the Cativaas, where about two days
after we landed, and stayed till noon; at what time seeing a sail to
the westward, as we deemed making to the island: we set sail and plied
towards him, who descrying us, bare with us, till he perceived by our
confidence, that we were no Spaniards, and conjectured we were those
Englishmen, of whom he had heard long before. And being in great want,
and desirous to be relieved by us: he bare up under our lee, and in
token of amity, shot off his lee ordnance, which was not unanswered.
We understood that he was TETU, a French Captain of Newhaven [Havre] a
Man-of-war as we were, desirous to be relieved by us. For at our first
meeting, the French Captain cast abroad his hands, and prayed our
Captain to help him to some water, for that he had nothing but wine and
cider aboard him, which had brought his men into great sickness. He had
sought us ever since he first heard of our being upon the coast, about
this five weeks. Our Captain sent one aboard him with some relief for
the present, willing him to follow us to the next port, where he should
have both water and victuals.
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