142 OfCapu Charles Vane^ 



which they alio took along with them. With thef^ 

 two Sloops Fane went to a fmall Ifland and cleaned 5 

 where they flxared their Booty, and fpent fomd 

 Time in a riotous Manner of Living, as i^ the Cu* 

 ftom of Py rates. 



The latter End of May 1718, they faiPd, and 

 being in want of Provi^ons, * they beat up for the 

 Windward Iflands, and met with a Sfanijl) Sloop 

 bound from Vorto Rico to the Havana^ which they 

 burnt, and flowed the Spaniards in a Boat, and left 

 them to get to the Ifland, by the Xight of their Vef- 

 fel. But fleering between St. thdftofhers and An-^ 

 guilla^ they fell in with a Brigantine and a Sloop/ 

 with the Cargo they wanted / from. whom they 

 got Provifions for Sea-Store. 



Sometime after this, ftanding to the Northward, 

 in the Track the Old-England Shl^^s take, in their 

 Voyage to th^ American Colonies, they took feveraf 

 Ships and V^elTe Is, which they plundered of wlia:£ 

 they thought fit, and let them pafs. 



The latter End oP Augtifi^ l^ane^ with his Cdnforfc 

 TeatSy came off South-CaroUna^^ and took a Ship be-, 

 longing to /p/ir/V/;, one C^^^^rj^;^// Commander^ laden 

 with Logwood, which was thought convenient 

 enough for their own Bufinefs, and therefore order- 

 ed their Prifoners to work, and throw all the La- 

 ding over-b,oard^ but when .they had mpre than 

 half cleared the Ship, the .^|Vhim changed, and 

 then they would not have her j^ fo 

 his Ship again, and he was fuffered to purfue 

 his Voyage home. In this Cru-ze the Rover took 

 leveral other Ships and.^eff^ls, particularly a.: 

 Sloop hom BarhadoeSy Dili Mafter v ^ fmall Shipi 

 from Antegoa^ Coc'k Mafter :j Sloop belonging to 

 Curaccoy Richards Mafter ^ and a large Brigantine, 

 Captain T^hompfon^ from Guiney ^ mth ninety' odd 

 Negroes aboard. The Pyr-ates plundered them; all 

 and let them go^ putting the Negroes out -of the 



Brigan* 



/ 



