to the Gold Mines, Sec. 



within five Miles of the Barkadeers \ from whence 

 Capt. Chriftian was fent with a Party of Men to 

 Capt. Robins, to fee if it was poflible to get the 

 Pirates down aboard the Sloops, but few of them 

 would truft us: Captain RoUps, who was an Indian^ 

 and of confiderable Authority there, having been 

 difobliged before our fetting out upon our Expe- 

 dition, becaufe he was not invited to diae with 

 Don Pedro and the reft of the Captains, threatned to 

 kill any Engli/h-men that came to them for the future. 



Having got all things in a readinefs, and em- 

 barked on board our Sloops by the 21ft, the Com- 

 manders held a Confultation, wherein it was agreed, 

 that Articles fhould be drawn to renew the Confort- 

 fhip for one Month, and that we fhould divide in- 

 to three Squadrons the Neptune, Blejjing, Edward 

 and Sarah, fhould cruize off Portobel for one 

 Month, and the Phenix, 'Thomas, Elizabeth and 

 Content, fhould cruize off Carthagena, and the 

 Baftamentd's, Greyhound and Dragon, fhould be at 

 the Rivers Mouth of Jacco, till they all returned, 

 which was agreed upon in a Months time, and then 

 we defigned to go up the River. 



It will be unneceflary, as well as too tedious for 

 us, to follow thefe three fmall Squadrons in their 

 refpeftive Cruifings ; 'tis fufficient to obferve, that 

 they met with no great matter of Booty, efpeci- 

 ally thofe whofe Station it was . to be about the 

 Mouth of Jacco, who in the fpace of five Months, 

 that they continued in thefe Parts, could never hear 

 of any Tidings of 201 white Men, befides Negroes^ 

 who fome time before went up the River of Jacco, 

 in order either to trade with the Jacco Indians r 

 who have a great deal of Gold, or to join with 

 them againft a rich Spani/h Town in that Country $ 

 and fo gave them over in a manner for loft. 



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