72 Of Black-Beard. 



her-, who upon feeing the black Flag holfledj; 

 ftruck his Sail and came to, under the Stern of 

 Teach the Commadore. She was called the Alventure^ 

 from Jamaica^ David Harriot Mafler. They took 

 Jiim and his Men aboard the great Ship, and fent 

 a Kutpber of other Hands with Ifrael Hands, Ma- 

 fler o^' teach' s Ship, to Man the Sloop for the py ra- 

 tical Account. 



The' pth of April, they weighed from Tumijf^ 

 haviiig lam there about ?t Week, and failed to the 

 Bay, where they found a Ship and four Sloops, 

 three of the latter belonged to Jonathan Bernard, of 

 Jamaica, and tile other to Captain James \ the Ship 

 was of Bo^on, c^W^d. the Frote^ant Cafar, Captain 

 fVyar Comm:^nder. Teach hoifted his Black Colours, | 

 and fired a Gtiii, upon which Captain Wyar and all 

 his Men, left their Ship, and got afliore ^ in their 

 Boat. rwi?'s'(^uarter.Mafte*r, and eight of "his 

 Crew, took Poffeifion of Wyar's Ship, and Richards 

 fecured all the Sloops, one of which they burnt | 

 out' of fpight to the Owner; the Trot eft ant C^A 

 far they alio burnt, afrer they ' had plundered J 

 .her, fcecaufe ihe belonged to i?^?/?^?;/, where ftme f 

 Men had been hanged for Pyracy ^ and the three s 

 Sloops belonging to ^w^r^sf they let go. ' | 



From hence the Rovers failed to turlill, and thea 

 .to the Grand Caimanes, a fmall Ifland about thirty 

 Leagues to the Weftward of Jamai(;a,_ where they 

 took a fmall Turtler, and ib to the fif^van a, and ^ 

 from thence to the Bahama Wrecks, and from the 

 Bahama recks, they failed to Ck/^?//;^^, taking a 

 Brigantine and two Sloops in their Way, vvhere 

 they lay off the Bar of Charles-Towii for five pr fix 

 bays: They took here a Ship as fhe was coming 

 out, bound for London, commanded by Fobert Clarhi 

 with fotne Paffengers on Board for JE^/^W ; the 

 riext 0ay they took another Veilel comnig out of 

 fharles'T'own, and alfb two Pinks coming into 0arlej^^ l 



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