94 Of Major StEDE BONNET. 



had taken all the Money, fmall Arms and EfFeflts 

 of Value out of the great Ship, and fet afhore 

 on a fmall fandy Ifland above a League from the 

 Wain, feventeen Men, no doubt with a Defign 

 they fliould perifli, there being no Inhabitant, or 

 Provifions to fublift withal, nor any Boat or Mate- 

 rials to build or make any kind of Launch or 

 Veffel, to efcape from that defolate Place: They 

 remained there two Nights and one Day, without 

 Subfiftance, or the leaft Profpeft of any, expeftjng 

 nothing elle but a lingering Death when to their 

 inexprelTable Comfort, they faw Redemption at 

 Hand ^ for Major Bonnet happening to get Intelli< 

 gence of their being there, by two of the Pyrates 

 who had efcaped Teaches Cruelty, and had got to 

 a poor little Village at the upper End of the Har- 

 bour, fent his Boat to make Difcovery of the 

 Truth of the Matter, which the poor Wretches 

 leeing, made a lignal to them, and they were all 

 brought on Board Bonneis Sloop. 



Major Bonnet told all his Company, that he 

 would take a Commiflion to go againft the Spani- 

 ards^ and to that End, was going to St. Thomases 

 therefore if they would go with him, they fhould 

 be welcome • whereupon they all conlented, but 

 as the Sloop was preparing to fail, a Bom-Boat, 

 that brought Apples and Sider to fell to the Sloop's 

 Men, informed them, that Captain Teach lay at Oc-- 

 ricocl Inlet, with only 1 8 or 20 Hands. Bonnet^ 

 who bore him a mortal Hatred for fome Infults 

 offered him, went immediately in purfuit of Black- 

 heardy but it happened too late, for he miffed of 

 him there, and after four Days Cruize, hearing no 

 farther News of him, they fteered their Courfe to- 

 wards Virginia. 



In the Month of July^ thefe Adventurers came 

 off the Capes, and meeting with a Pink with a Stock 

 of Provifions on Board, which they happened to 



be 



