to defend the passage of the bar, which is extremely dangerous.
All the boats were employed in conveying the stores into the small
craft, while three of the sloops continued exchanging fire over a narrow
tongue of land with the vessels of the enemy, consisting of one brig
and six armed sloops, mounted with great guns and swivels. At length the
channel being discovered, and the wind, which generally blows down the
river, chopping about, captain Millar, of the London buss, seized that
opportunity; and, passing the bar with a flowing sheet, dropped anchor
on the inside, where he lay till night exposed to the whole fire of the
enemy. Next day he was joined by the other small vessels, and a regular
engagement ensued. This was warmly maintained on both sides, until the
busses and one dogger running aground, immediately bulged, and were
filled with water. Then the troops they contained took to their boats,
and with some difficulty reached the shore; when they formed in a body,
and were soon joined by their companions from the other vessels; so that
now the whole amounted to three hundred and ninety marines, besides the
detachment of artillery. As they laid their account with being
attacked by the natives who lined the shore at some distance,
seemingly determined to oppose the descent, they forthwith threw up an
intrench-ment, and began to disembark the stores, great part of which
lay under water. While they were employed in raising this occasional
defence, the negroes came in great numbers and submitted; and on the
succeeding day they were reinforced by three hundred and fifty seamen,
who passed the bar in sloops, with their ensigns and colours flying.

{GEORGE II. 1727-1760}

FORT LOUIS AND SENEGAL TAKEN.

They had made no further progress in their operations, when two French
deputies arrived at the intrench-ment, with proposals for a capitulation
from the governor of Fort Louis. After some hesitation, captain Marsh
and major Mason agreed, that all the white people belonging to the
French company at Senegal should be safely conducted to France in
an English vessel, without being deprived of their private effects,
provided all the merchandise and uncoined treasure should be delivered
up to the victors; and that all the forts, store-houses, vessels, arms,
provisions, and every article belonging to the company in that river,
should be put into the hands of the English immediately after the
capitulation could be signed. T