joy’d to meet again, after ſuch ill Treatment from the Winds and Seas.
After the Storm, Low got ſafe to a ſmall Iſland, one of the Weathermoſt of the Caribbees, and there fitted their Veſſels, as well as the Place could afford; they got Proviſions of the Natives, in exchange for Goods of their own; and as ſoon as the Brigantine was ready, ’twas judg’d neceſſary to take a ſhort Cruize, and leave the Scooner in the Harbour till her Return. The Brigantine ſail’d out accordingly, and had not been out many Days before they met a Ship at Sea, that had loſt all her Maſts; on Board of whom they went, and took from her in Money and Goods, to the Value of 1000 l. and ſo left her in the Condition they found her: This Ship was bound home from Barbadoes, but loſing her Maſts in the late Storm, was making for Antegoa, to refit, where ſhe afterwards arriv’d.
The Storm juſt ſpoken of, was found to have done incredible Damage in thoſe Parts of the World; but however, it appear’d to have been more violent at Jamaica, both to the Iſland and Shipping, there was ſuch a prodigious Swell of the Sea, that ſeveral hundred Tuns of Stones and Rocks, were thrown over the Wall of the Town of Port Royal, and the Town it ſelf was overflowed, and above half deſtroy’d, there being the next Morning five Foot Water from one End to the other; the Cannon of Fort Charles were diſmounted, and ſome waſhed into the Sea, and four hundred People loſt their Lives; a more melancholly Sight was ſcarce ever ſeen when the Water ebb’d away, all the Streets being covered with Ruins of Houſes, Wrecks of Veſſels, and a great Number of dead Bodies, for forty Sail of Ships, in the Harbour, were caſt away.
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