144 Of Q^pt. CHATitES VM:k. 



tificates ^ and Captain Thompforiy from whom the 

 Kegroes were taken, had them re'ftored to him:, 

 for the Ufe of his Owners. 



* Vane cruifed Ibme Time off the Bar, m hopes to 

 catch Teats at his coming out again, but thefein he 

 was difappointed however, he unfortunately for 

 them, took two Ships from Charles-Town ^honndihomQ 

 to England. It happenM that juft at this Time two 

 Sloops well mann'd and armM, were equipped to go 

 after a Pyrate, which the Governor of 5<?z^/^-C/ir(?//W 

 was informed, lay then in Cape Fi^^r River, a clean* 

 ing: But Colonel Rhety who commanded the Sloops, 

 meeting with one or the Ships that Vane had plun- 

 dered, going back over the Bar, for fuch NecefTa- 

 ries as had been taken from her, and flie giving the 

 Colonel an Account of her being taken by the Py- 

 rate Vane^ and alfo, that fome of her Men, while 

 they were Prifoners on Board ot hifti, had heard 

 the Py rates fay, they fliould clean in one of the 

 Rivers to the Southward; he altered his firft 

 Defign, and inftead of ftanding to the Northward, 

 in purfuit of the Pyrate in Cape pear River, he 

 turns to the Southward after Vane \ who had order- 

 ed flich Reports to be given out, on purpofe to 

 fend any Force that fliould come atter him, upon 

 a wrong Scent for in Reality he flood away to 

 /the Northward, fo that the Purfuit proved to b6 

 the contrary Way. 



Colonel Kheis fpeaking with this Ship, was the 

 moft unlucky Thing that could have happened, be"- 

 caufe it turned him out of the Road, which in all 

 Probability, would have brought him into the Com^ 

 pany of Vane^ as well as of the Pyrate he went 

 after and lb they might have been both deftroy'd; 

 whereas, by the Colonel's going a different Way, he 

 not only loft the Opportunity of meeting with 

 One, but if the other had not been infatuated, f6 

 lye fix Weeks together at Cape Fsar^ he would 



have 



