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NOw presently I began to prepare for my Dispatch, and to hasten my Departure; and finding that my Ship which I expected from the Straites, came not; and that shee was to goe to London to discharge; and vncertaine how long shee might stay; I resolved to take another of mine owne in her place, though lesser, called the Hawke, onely for a Victualler; pur∣posing in the coast of Brasill, or in the Straites, to take out her men, and Victualls, and to cast her off.