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his Leg, and a Basket at his Back, crying 

 Bread about the Streets for a Baker his Maft- 

 tr. The Spaniards would never confent to 

 the Ranfoming him, though he was a Gentle- 

 man who, had Friends of a considerable For- 

 tune, and would have given them a very 

 large Sum of Mony. 



I had a Brother in Jamaica, who wa s imployed 

 under Sir Thomas Muddiford, in his Plantation the M 

 , : - at the Angels : And my chief Inducement in £ els pl ^ : 

 undertaking this Voyage was to fee him. I atl0iL 

 ftaid fometime with him, and he fettled me in 

 a Houfe at Fort-Royal, where I followed my p P rt-&of 

 Bufinefs of Surgery for fome- Months. Brita- 

 in a while I met with Capt. Cook, and Capfc 

 Linch, two Privateers who were going out 

 from Port-Royal, toward the Coaft of Carta- tartd£end; 

 gena, and took me along w 7 ith them. We 

 met other Privateers, on that Coaft $ but 

 being parted from them by ftrefs of Weather 

 about Golden-Ifland, in the Sambalkes, we Ooidm-L 

 flood away to the Baflimentos, where we Bu- 

 rnet them again, and feveral others, who me ^ e l 

 had been at the taking of Portohel, and were 0) ^ 

 Rendefvouzed there. Here I firft met with? 

 Mr. Dampier, and was with hiin in the Ex-Mr. Dam- 

 pedition into the S. Seds. For in fhort, having P itr£ 

 mufter'd up our Forces at Golden-Ifland y and 

 landed on the Ijlhtftm] we march'd moxijihmm: 

 Land, and took Santa Maria • and made < 

 thofe Excuriions into the S. Seas, which Mr. &Ti 

 Ringrofe relates in the 44th part of the .Hi-^^l 

 Jiory of the Bucc&niers. t , • ' 



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