[Juin 1778.] [en mer]
Lundi 22. une Legere brise de S E nous a mis aportée du général, nous avons alors mis le Canot à la mer, ci-nous y avons embarqué le Capitaine du Sloop qui a temoigné au Général, la Crainte qu’il avait de tomber entre les mains des Anglais: M. le Comte D’Estaing S’en alors determiné à acheter Sa Cargaison, et à L’escorter jusqu’en Amerique: dépuis hier à midy
[Translation]
[June 1778.] [at sea]
Monday 22. a Light breeze from the SE brought us to the commandant, we then put a boat in the water in which we embarked the Captain of the Sloop,1 who testified to the Commandant to the Fear that he had of falling into the hands of the British: M. the Comte d’Estaing then decided to purchase his Cargo and to escort him to America: since yesterday noon
D, FrPNA, Marine B4, vol. 147, fol. 51.
1. Capt. Selby, perhaps William Selby of Pitts Landing, Virginia, master of a sloop, the name of which has not been identified, encountered the previous day. See Journal of French Navy frigate Engageante, for 21 June, above.