[19°.. 32' Nth Latt]
[1778, May] 11th At 5 o'clock in the Morning Saw a Sail at the Windward two Leagues Distance Bearing Down Upon Us we Lay too for her till She Came in half Gun Shott of us the Man at Mast head Cryd out 41 Sail to the Leeward Our Officers Concluded to Make Sail from her Supposing her to be a Frigate of 36 Guns after we Made Sail We Left as Fast as we wanted She Gave over Chase at two oClock Afternoon She was the Seaford of 28 Guns.2
Log-Book of Timothy Boardman, p. 53.
1. That is, "for".
2. See Journal of H.M. frigate Seaford, Capt. John Colpoys, below.