Of Capt. Charles Fan £4 



^ John Rackam was voted Captain of the BrigantinCj 

 in Plane's Room, and proceeded towards the Caribbee 

 JjlandSj where we itiuft leave him, till we have 

 finifhed our Story of Charles Vane. 



The Sloop failed for the Bay o'i Honduras y and 

 Vanemd his Crew put her into as good a Condi^ 

 tion as they could by the Way, to follow the old 

 Trade. They cruifed two or three Days off the 

 North- Weft iPart of Jamaica^ and tcok a Sloop and 

 two Pettiagas, and all the Men entered with them- 

 the Sloop they kept, and Robert Deal went Captain 

 of her* 



On the i6th of December the two Sloops came 

 into the Bay, where they found only one at an 

 Anchor, calPd the Pearly of Jamaicay Captain Charles 

 Rowling M2i&ery who gpt under Sail at the Sight of 

 them ^ but the Pyrate Sloops coming near Rowlings 

 and Ihewmg no Colours, he gave them a Gun or 

 two li whereupon they hoifted the black Flag, and 

 fired three Guns each, at the Pearl ^ Ihe ftruck, and 

 the Pyrates took PoiTeffion, and carried her away 

 to a fmall Ifland called Bamachy and there they" 

 cleaned, meeting in the Way with a Sloop front 

 JamaUay Captain Wallden Commander, going down 

 to the Bay, which they alfo made Prize oK 



In Februaryy Vane failed from Bamachy in drdef 

 for a Cruize but fome Days after he was out, a 

 violent Turnado overtook hini, which feparated 

 him from his Conlbrt, and after two Days Diftrefs, 

 threw his blopp upon a fmall uninhabited Ifland, 

 iiear the Bay qff/i/(?W/^r^, where ftie was ftaved to 

 Pieces, and moft of her Men drowned : Vane him- 

 felf was faved, but reduced to great Streights, for 

 want of Neceffaries, having no Opportunity to get 

 any Thing from the Wreck- He lived here Ibme 

 Weeks, and was fubiifted chiefly by Fifhermen, 

 who frequented the Ifland with fmall Craft, from 

 the Main J to catch Turtles, (^r. 



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