17/27 Briefly, incidentally, he mentions that on one trip he was captured by the French, who were so, "well acquainted with the great damages I had done to them and feared others I might occasion, as to confine me a close prisoner ... They were fully resolved to have sent me down to Mobile or New Orleans as a capital criminal to be hanged... BUT I DOUBTED NOT OF BEING ABLE TO EXTRICATE MYSELF SOME WAY OR OTHER. They appointed double centries over me for some days before I was to be sent down in the French King's large boat. |