Monday, 21st. Our Lieu’t with two hands went ashore to see if he could kill any cattle.  Some others of the people went for water and found 7 wells.  The people on board were busy in fishing, of which they caught an abundance; but some of the hands who eat of the fish complained that they were poisoned by them.

Wednesday, 23d. At 6 P.M. the master of the ship came on board to return thanks to our Cap’t for his kind assistance, & offered him anything he might have occasion for.  He gave the people another hhd of claret & some sugar, & to the Cap’t a quarter cask of wine for his own drinking, also 6 lengths of old junk.  At 6 A.M. left the poor Frenchman in hopes of letting his Cap’t know where he was, weighed anchor from the Molo, and, the weather being moderate, got on our cruising ground, the North side of Cuba.

Saturday, 26th. About 5 P.M. thought we saw a vessel at anchor under the land.  Lay off & on till 5 A.M., when we saw 2 sails, a brigantine & a sloop.  Gave them chase, the sloop laying to for us, & the brigantine making the best of her way to the leeward.  We presently came up with the sloop, & when in gun shot, hoisted our pennant.  The compliment was returned with a Spanish ensign at mast head, and a gun to confirm it.  We then went alongside of him & received his broadside, which we cheerfully returned.  He then dropped astern, & bore away before the wind, crowding all the sail he could, and we, having tacked and done the like, came again within gun shot.  While chasing, we shifted our bow guns to our fore ports, and they had done the like with their after guns, moving them to their cabin windows, from which they polled us with their stern chasers, while we peppered them with our fore guns.  At last, after some brisk firing, they struck.  We ordered their canoe on board, which was directly manned, and brought their Capt, who delivered his commission & sword to our Cap’t, and surrendered himself a prisoner of war.  He was desperately wounded in the arm, & had received several small shot in his head & body.  Three of his hands were wounded, & one negro boy killed.  This vessel had been new fitted out in November last from the Havanah, was on our coast early in the spring, & had taken several vessels and brought them in to the Havanah, where in August she was again fitted out, and had met with good success on the coast of Virginia.  She mounted 6 guns & 12 swivels, & had a crew of 30 hands, two of whom were Englishmen, who had been taken prisoners, and had entered their service.  We now made all the sail we could crowd after the brigantine, which by this time was almost out of sight.  Our damage in the engagement was not much; one man slightly wounded by a splinter, two more by a piece accidentally going off after the fight, upwards of 20 shot in our sails, 2 through our mast, & 1 through our gunwale.  This day the Revenge has established her honour, which had almost been lost by letting the other privateer go off with 4 ships, as before mentioned.  Still in chase of the brigantine, which is making for the land.