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which we put the prisoners to death, 
(173 in number,) took the best of every 
thing out of the ship, and-sunk her. 
. May 5.—Saw)a small vessel from 
the mast-head, and, it being calm, we 
arméd the long-boat, and sent her 
after her, She took her, and brought 
her alongside: she proved to be-a 
Turk, loaded with wine and brandy. 
We put the prisoners to death, took 
what wine and brandy we wanted out 
of her, and set her on fire. In the 
mean time, there was another coming 
round the island; which our long-boat 
boarded without any defence. She 
proved to be a good prize, loaded with 
cotton, silk, and honey. In the after- 
noon it came on to blow and rain, 
At ten o’clock we lost sight of our 
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May 6.—This morning we stood in 
for a-smail island belonging to the 
Greeks. All hands went on-shore, 
and plundered them of every thing 
they had on the island. 
May 8.—We heard that our people 
in our late prize were prisoners in the 
isiand of: Medras, to which the vessel 
belonged: this so enraged our captain, 
that be swore he would have them out, 
or put every man, woman, and child, 
to death in the island. 
May 9.—We sailed for Medras, but 
the next morning we saw a sail, to 
which.we gave chace, and soon got 
alongside: she proved to be a priva- 
teer belonging to'Tunis. She engaged 
us an hour before she struck. We 
took all the prisoners on-board (in 
- number 125); and one of them told 
our captain they would have struck 
sooner, only they .expected us to 
board them, and they would then have 
blown the ship up; on which our 
captain ordered them all back. We 
then took some of their small arms, 
and made this man we kept on-board 
goand set the ship on fire,—people 
and all together. It was a dreadful 
sight. We forgave the man, and put 
him ashore on one of the Greck 
islands. 
- May 12.—-Atten o’clock at night the 
wind came in our favour. 
' May 13.—We got into Medras, and 
fired several guns into the town, which 
knocked down some of the houses, 
and killed several of the people. The 
governor came off to know why we 
behaved in this manner, when our cap- 
tain made answer, that if be did not 
deliver his people up, and the vessel 
he took, he would put every oug in 
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the place to death. The governor 
made answer, that he had never seen 
or heard from her since she sailed 
from thence. The governor now went 
on-shore, and sent us in provisions, 
and 500 sequins. That night we sail- 
ed again,.and the next morning spoke 
a French brig, who told us our prize 
was gone down to Cerigo. We then 
steered for that place, and the next 
day took a:small vessel with Cyprus_ 
wine; from which we took what we 
wanted, and sunk the vessel. Thé 
Turks we put to death on-board ow 
own ship,—fifteen in number. 
May 15.—-We got into Cerigo, and 
found our prize there, and another 
which she had taken; but we eould not 
make a prize of her,/as she belonged 
to some Greek merchants. We took 
all the silk and cotton, and most of the 
‘honey, out of our prize, and, getting 
ten six-pounders from the shore, put 
them on-board our prize, with sixty 
hands, asa tender to go with us, 
May 19.—We sailed for the Arches} 
that same day we saw seven sail, to 
which we gave chace, and soon came 
up with them. These proved to be 
prizes to a Russian privateer, bound 
to Trieste, under her own convoy, and 
all richly laden. 
May 21.—Anchored in Theans, 
where they were glad to see us come 
in, as a Turkish galley, on the other 
side of the island, was going to plun- 
der them in the night. Atene o’clock 
we sent the tender after her, and at 
three in the morning she took her, 
without the least defence. She had 
on-board eighty-five hands, which we 
took on-board us, and confined them 
in the hold until the next day; when 
they were called up, one by one, and 
had their heads cut off, in the same 
manner as we cut duck’s heads off at 
home, and we then threw them over- 
board. This was the first time we 
were obliged to take it by tarns to put 
them to death: the English, when 
called upon, at first refused it; but 
when the captain told them they were 
cowards, or people that were afraid of 
their enemies, and that he could not 
believe they were Englishmen, they 
went, and did the same as the rest; 
and, afterwards, were even worse than 
the others,—for they always were first 
when such work was going on; and, 
at last, got quite used to its Sometimes 
we had three or four in a day to put to 
death for each man’s share. 
May 24.—Our tender brought in a 
good 
