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A half-century of conflict. France and England in North America. Part ...

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160 DUG D'ANVILLE. [1746.raged all night, <strong>and</strong> the fleet became so scatteredthat there was no more danger <strong>of</strong> collision. In themorn<strong>in</strong>g the journalist could see but five sail ;but asthe day advanced the rest began to reappear, <strong>and</strong> atthree o'clock he counted thirty-one from the deck <strong>of</strong>the "Pr<strong>in</strong>ce d' Orange." The gale was subsid<strong>in</strong>g,but its effects were seen <strong>in</strong> hencoops, casks, <strong>and</strong>chests float<strong>in</strong>g on the surges <strong>and</strong> tell<strong>in</strong>g the fate <strong>of</strong>one or more <strong>of</strong> the fleet. The "Argonaut" wasroll<strong>in</strong>g helpless, without masts or rudder; the"Caribou" had thrown overboard all the starboardguns <strong>of</strong> her upper deck; <strong>and</strong> the vice-admiral's ship,the "Trident," was <strong>in</strong> scarcely better condition.On the twenty-third they were wrapped <strong>in</strong> thickfog <strong>and</strong> lay fir<strong>in</strong>g guns, r<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong>g bells, <strong>and</strong> beat<strong>in</strong>gdrums to prevent collisions. When the weathercleared, they looked <strong>in</strong> va<strong>in</strong> for the admiral's ship,the "<strong>North</strong>umberl<strong>and</strong>." ^She was not lost, however,but with *two other sliips was far ahead <strong>of</strong> the fleet<strong>and</strong> near Chibucto, though <strong>in</strong> great perplexity, hav<strong>in</strong>gno pilot who knew the coast.She soon after hadthe good fortune to capture a small English vesselwith a man on board well acqua<strong>in</strong>ted with Chibuctoharbor. D'Anville <strong>of</strong>fered him his liberty <strong>and</strong> ahundred louis if he would pilot the ship <strong>in</strong>.he agreed ;To thisbut when he rejo<strong>in</strong>ed his fellow-prisoners<strong>and</strong> describes what he saw (Archives du S^m<strong>in</strong>aire de Qu^ec;pr<strong>in</strong>ted <strong>in</strong> Ze Canada Frangais).1 The "<strong>North</strong>umberl<strong>and</strong>" was an English prize captured byCapta<strong>in</strong>s Serier <strong>and</strong> Conflans <strong>in</strong> 1744.

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