April [1777] Saturday 12.
So end of Moona S.bW. ½ W 3 Miles. At 5 [A. M.] came too with the Best Bower in Moona Bay . . . sent the Long boat and Cutter ashore, with the Masters of some of the Prizes we had taken, and part of their Crews to the number of 18 in the whole sent with them Provisions for three Weeks, four Muskets, 4 Cartouch boxes, 2 Cutlasses and Ammunition 2 at 10 Weigh'd and came to Sail.
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/399.
2. Apparently they had been landed to relieve Glasgow of carrying too many prisoners while she continued her cruise. That Captain Pasley had promised to return for them within three weeks is borne out by the Glasgow's journal of May 2: at 6 AM Weighed & came to sail, stood for the Island of,Moona At 12 Anchord at the West end of Moona in 9 fath as did our Sloop, and Schooner . . . sent the boats ashore in search of the Yankees, who we found by a Note they left behind them that they left the Island, 6 days after our departure.
