ase) and every Shot the Enemy fir'd, he cowardly trembled, with
his Head almost down to the Deck. This Captain _Scarlet_ has often
declared to the Gentlemen at _Bombay_, and before those that are now
coming Home. I had six Men kill'd, and six their Legs shot off, with
several others wounded by their Partridge-Shot, _&c._ Had our People
kept the Deck like Men, there must have been several more kill'd and
wounded. About Three, I heard a great Call for Shot, and desired Capt.
_Scarlet_ to go to Mr. _Cuddon_, and tell him not to fire in Waste.

We lay now just like a Wreck in the Sea, and at our Wits Ends. Our Shot
being almost spent, we had a Hole cut in the Well to try to come at the
Company's. We continued on with Double-round and Partridge, and Bolts,
_&c._ with a Double Allowance of Powder to each Gun, doing the utmost we
could to save the Ship. The Tiller-rope was now shot away, tho' of no
Service before. The Carpenter told me the Ship made a great deal of
Water, and had above two Foot in her Hold. The Caulker afterwards told
me she had three Foot. I saw nothing we could do more than firing our
Stern-Chase. There was a sad Complaint for Shot; however we fir'd Bolts.
I call'd out to the People to have good Hearts, and went into the
Round-house to encourage them there. It was very hard we could stand no
Chance for a Mast of theirs, nor no lucky Shot to disable some of them,
in all the Number that we fir'd. As to our small Arms, they were of
little Service, they keeping their Men so close. The Rigging of the
Foremast being gone, and that fetching so much way, I expected it to go
every Minute; and about Seven in the Evening, the Ship falling off into
the Trough of the Sea, the Foremast came by the Board. It was now about
Four o' Clock, when Mr. _Thomas Rogers_, my Chief Mate, sent my Steward
to desire to speak with me. When I went to him, he spoke to me to this
Purpose. "Sir," says he, "I am inform'd what Condition the Ship is in;
as her Masts are gone, you had better not be obstinate, in standing out
longer; it will only be the Means of making more Objects, of murdering
more Men, and all to no Purpose, but to be used worse by the Enemy, for
it is impossible to get away. Therefore you had better surrender." To
the best of my Knowledge, I hardly made him any Answer; nor had I,
before he sent to me, the least Thoughts of surrendering, which I
declare before God and Man; tho' I was well convinc'd within myself,
that it was im