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Thing he owned to be his: The Parfon laid hold 

 of this favourable Difpofition of the Py rates, and 

 laid Claim to feveral Things belonging to others, 

 which were aifo given up, to his great Satlsfadion ; 

 in fine, they kept nothing which belonged to the 

 Church, except three Prayer-Books, and a Bottle- 

 Sere w. 



The; Py rates kept the Oripw for their own 

 Ufe, and gave Captain Gee the Fremh Ship, and 

 then fell to making fiich Alterations as might fit 

 her for a Sea-Rover, pulling down her Bulk-Heads, 

 and making her flufti, fo that flie became, in ali 

 Refpefts, as compleat a Ship for their Purpofe, as 

 any they could; have found ^ they Continued to her 

 the Name of the Royal Fortu/te^ and mounted hjer 

 with 40 Guns. 



She and the Rariger proceeded (as I faid before^) 

 to Jaqu'wy and from thence to Old Calabar^ where 

 they arrived about October j in order to clean their 

 Ships, a Place the moft fuitable along the whole 

 Xoaft, for there is a Bar with not above 1^5 Foot 

 Water upon it, and the Channel intricate, fo that 

 had the Men of War been fure of their being har- 

 boured here, they might ftill have bid Defiance to 

 their Strength, for the Depth of Water at the Bar^ 

 as well as the want of a Pilot, was a fufficient Se- 

 curity to the Rovers, and invincible Impediments 

 to them. Here therefore they fat ealy, and divi- 

 ded the Fruits of their difhoneft Inftuftry, and drank 

 And drove Care away. The Pilot who brought them 

 intoUhis Harbour, was Captain L—^e^ who for 

 this, and other Services, was extreamly well paid^ 

 according to the Journal of their own Accounts, 

 which do not run in the ordinary and common way, 

 of Debtor^ contra Creditor^ but much more concile, 

 lumping it to their Friends, and fo carrying the 

 Debt in their Heads, againft the next honeft Trader 

 they meet. 



They 



