To cap it, the cargo of masts and spars had also been stowed while wet and covered with mud and ice, and the hatches had been battened.

As a result the air became so foul with decay that several hundred barrels of beef were spoiled.

To repair the ship was beyond the means of Captain Randall and Samuel Shaw, and reluctantly they sold her to the Danish East India Company at a heavy loss.

Nothing could have been more unexpected than to find that, for once, the experienced shipbuilders had been guilty of a miscalculation.
The crew scattered, and perhaps the prediction of the fortune-teller of Lynn followed their roving courses, for when Captain Amasa Delano tried to trace them a few years later, he jotted down such obituaries as these on the list of names: "John Harris.

A slave in Algiers at last accounts.
Roger Dyer.