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liawfer^ io Casks df Oatmeal, fix Casks of fie'ef,' 

 ind {k^eral dther Goods, befides five of their Men^ 

 8M after they had detained her three Days, lethef 

 g© I whd being bound for the abovefaid Ifland, lh< 

 ggcfuSinted the Gdvernor with what had happened 

 M fboil as ftie arrived. 



WhereuffOfi a 5r/7?(9/ Galley that lay in the Har*^ 

 fedlif^ wa^ ordered to be fitted out with all imagi- 

 liabie EXpeditiofi^ of 20 Guns, and 80 Men, there 

 feeing then nd Man df War upon that Station, and 

 alfdaSIodp ivith IO Guns, and 40 Men : The Gal- 

 ley Was commanded by one Captain Rogers^ of Brifiol^ 

 Mild the Slddp by Captain Graves j of that Ifland, and^ 

 Captain Rogers by a CommiUion from the Governor ^ 

 Was lippditiced Commadore^ 



The lecdnd Daiy after Rogers failed out of the 

 Matbduf , he was difcovefed by Roberts^ who know^ 

 Ing ildthing df their Defign, gave them Chafe : The 

 Sdfhddoes Ships kept an eafy fail till the Pyrates 

 ^ritrte up with them^ and then Roberts gave them a 

 Giilljj expeSing they would have immediately ftruck 

 tp his pyratical Flag, but inftead thereof, he was 

 Ibfced Ed receive the Fire of a Broadfide, with 

 thi-ee HiiXzns at the fame Time ^ fo that an En^ 

 gageftient enfued, but Roberts being hardly put to 

 ffj Wdg obliged td crowd all the Sail the Sloop 

 Wdiild bear, to get dfi: The Galley failing pretty 

 Well^ kept Coitipaiiy for a long while, keeping a 

 Cdnftant Fire, which gaifd the Pyrate-, however^ 

 a£ length by throwing over their Guns, and other 

 heavy Goods, and thereby light'jiing the VefTef^ 

 fhey^ with much ado, got clear ^ but Roberts could 

 fiever ehdiire a BarbaSes Man afterwards, and when 

 atiy Ships belonging to that Ifland fell in his Way^ 

 vV'a.l more particularly fevei'e to then! than 



dther s. 



Ca]ptarn Roberts Mled in the Sloop to the Ifland 

 ©f ^mihko^ where he watered^ and got Provifidns 



of 



