2o6 Of Capt. HoWEL 



pafsM between him and the Governor, he returjied 

 again on Board* 



It happened a French Ship came in there to fupply 

 it lelf with fome NecefTaries, which D^wtook in-* 

 to his Head to plunder, but to give the Thing a 

 Colour of Right, he perfuaded the Portuguez.e^ that 

 ihe had been trading with the Py rates, and that 

 he found feveral Py rates Goods on Board, which 

 he feized for the King's Ufa This Story palTed fo 

 well upon the Governor, that h.e commended i)^- 

 tz/Vs Diligence* 



A few Days after, I)ai)isy with about fourteen fhore^ 

 went privately alhore, and walked up the Country 

 towards a Village, where the Governor and the 

 other chief Men of the Ifland kept their Wives, in 

 tending, as we may fuppofe, to fupply their Hus- 

 bands Places with them ^ but being dilcovered, the 

 Women fled to a neighbouring Wood, and Davis and 

 the reft retreated to their Ship, without effefting 

 their Defign : The Thing made fome Noife, but as 

 no body knew them, it palled over. 



Having cleaned his Ship, and put all Things in 

 Order, his Thoughts now were turned upoji the 

 main Buliiiefs, viz.. the Plunder of the Ifland, and 

 not knowing where the Treafure lay, a Stratagem 

 came into his Head, to get it fas he thought) with 

 little Trouble ^ heconfulted his Men upon it, and 

 they liked the Defign: His Scheme was, to make a 

 Prefent fo the Cover nor, of a Dozen Negroes, by 

 Way of Return for the Civilities received from him, 

 and afterwards to invite him, with the chief Men, 

 and feme of the Friers^ on Board his Ship, to an En-* 

 tertainment ; the Minute they came on Board, they 

 were fo be fecured in Irons, and there kept till they 

 ihould pay a Ranfom of 40000/. Sterling. 



But this Stratagem proved flital to him, for a Por-* 

 tuguez^e Kegroe fwam afliore in the Night, anddilco-' 

 vered the whole Plot to the Governor, and alfo let 



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