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==Re-supply (1699)== In August 1699, the ''Olive Branch'' and ''Hopeful Beginning'' with 300 settlers arrived in Darien to find ruined huts and 400 overgrown graves. Expecting a bustling town, the ship's captains debated their next move. When the ''Olive Branch'' was destroyed by an accidental fire, the survivors fled to Jamaica in the ''Hopeful Beginning'', and landed in Port Royal harbour. The Scots were not allowed ashore, and illness struck the crowded ship. On 20 September, Thomas E. Drummond set sail from New York in the sloop ''Ann of Caledonia'', (formerly the ''Anne''), picking up another fully supplied vessel (the ''Society'') on the way. They arrived in Darien to find the burnt timbers of the ''Olive Branch'' rotting on the shore.<ref>Prebble, ''The Darien Disaster'', p. 237.</ref>
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