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sloop, we continued our course along shore about 200 of us in company and brought the sloops to bear almost a stern of us, one the sloops changed her course and stood tow.. the General, who was then about two leagues a stern of us, the other two stood for us and overhalled us considerably. we discerned cut word colours verey plain, and saw they was under french coleurs, this encouraged them Indians verey much and they concluded they was canedy sloops bound for Luisbourg, but I was fully perswaded to the contrary, and told them I believed they would find themselves mistaken, we was abliged to keep the shore on bord in our connew. and in going round a large cove the sloops shott a head of us & stood in by a point, so that we could not continue on our course, without their speaking with us by an means, this put them on consideration, what was best to be done. some concluded it was best for us to continue on our course, others to go on shore