to the Gold Mines ^ ,<kc. 2 



weary of the Courfe of Life they follow'd. 

 As foon as we got our Water aboard, we 

 in the Baft amenta failed in order to joyn 

 our Conforts at the SambaUoes Keys 5 we 

 having agreed to meet there before our go- 

 ing out of Jamaica, from whence they fet 

 out five Days before us. Captain Pilking- 

 ton informed us, that the Glocefter and Sea- 

 Horfe Men of War, had been Engaged 

 with the Fort at Portobel, and that they 

 landed above three hundred Men from the 

 Sloopes 5 but that before they could get in- 

 to the Town, the Glocefter fpring of his 

 Cable, gave way, which made them leave 

 off firing, and go off 5 but Captain Pilking- 

 ton the Day before, had deluded fome Spa- 

 niards off, making them believe he came to 

 Trade , detained about feven thoufand 

 pieces of Eight , before they had any 

 Intelligence of the War, and had sot a 

 confiderable Sumro more, had it not been dif- 

 covered by one AUm % an Irifh-mm 0 who 

 was Interpreter to -the Glocefter § and fo our 

 Defign mifcarried on that Place. 



All our Company being met together at 

 the S&mbdlohYLzys, the forementioned French 

 Pirates came aboard us, and we fent a Mef- 

 fenger up to Don Pedro, King of the Indi- 

 ans , to know if lie would come down, and 

 /agree to fuch Articles as we Should propofc"' 

 to him, to join with us againft the Spani- 

 ards^ he readily complied, and propofed to 

 take 300 Indians with him, in order to cut 



