A fresh gale from
the S. W. in the afternoon vear’d a Barrel of Beef astern for the Brig, Sea
running High she carelessly ran upon our Larboard Quarter but did no other
Damage than breaking our Driver Boom—at 10 at Night saw several Sail spoke one
of them found them all to be Dutch Daugers.
SOURCE: Dr. Ezra
Green, Diary of Ezra Green, M.D., Surgeon
on Board the Continental Ship “Ranger,” Under John Paul Jones, from November 1,
1777 to September 27, 1778, p. 18
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