56 The INTRODUCTIOIT. 



Py rates there, who upon the coming of the Men 

 of War, all furrendered to the Pardon, except 

 Charles Vane and his Crev;)^, which happened after 

 this Manner. 



1 have before defcribed the Harbour to have two 

 Inlets, by Means of a fmall Ifland lying at the 

 Mouth of it at one of which, both the Men of 

 War entered, and left the other open, fo that Vane 

 flipM his Cable, fet Fire to a large Prize they had 

 there, and refolutely put out, firing at the Man 

 of War as he went off. 



As foon as Captain f^ogers had fettled himfelf in 

 his Government, he built a Fort for his Defence, 

 and garrilbned it with the People he found upon 

 the Ifland ^ the quondam Py rates, to the Number of 

 400, he formed into Companies, appointed Officers 

 of thole whom he moft confided in, and then 

 fet about to fettle a Trade with the Spaniards^ in 

 the Gulf of Mexico J in one of which Voyages, 

 Captain Burgefs abovementioned, died, and Captain 

 Hornigoldj another of the famous Py rates, was 

 cail away upon Rocks, a great Way from Land, 

 and perilhed, but five of his Men got into a Canoe 

 and wereftved. 



Captain Rogers lent out a Sloop to get Provifions, 

 and gave the Command to one Jchn Anguvy one 

 of the Pyrates, v/lio had accepted of the Ad of 

 Grace in their Voyage they met with two Sloops, 

 and John and his Comrades not yet forgetting 

 their former Bufinefs, made Ufe of their old Free- 

 dom, and took out of them in Money Jlnd Goods, 

 to the Value of about ,500 I. after this they 

 fteered away for Hif^amola^ not being fatisfyM whe- 

 ther the Governor would admit them to carry on 

 two Trades at once^ and fb thought to have bidden 

 F^rewel to the Bahama lilands-, but as ill Luck would 

 have it, they met with a violent Turiiado, wherein 

 they loft their Maft, and were drove back to one 



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