2 $6 Capt. Bart HO. Roberts. 



They took Calabar^ Captain Lome^ and two 

 or three Brt^ol Ships, the Particulars of all 

 which would be an uniieceliary Prolixity, there- 

 fore I come now to give an Account of the 

 Ufage they received from the Natives of this Place^ 

 The Calabar Negroes did not prove fo civil as they 

 'expected, for they refufed to have any Commerce 

 or Trade with them, when they underltood they were 

 Pyrates : An Indication that thefe poor Creatures, 

 in the narrow Circumftances they were in, and 

 without the Light of the Gofpel, or the Advan- 

 tage of an Education, have, not withftanding, fa ch a. 

 moral innate Honefly, as would upbraid and lhame 

 themoft knowing Chriftian : But this did but ex-, 

 afperate thefe lawlefs Fellows, and fb a Party of 

 40 Men were detach'd to force a Correfpondence, 

 or drive the Negroes to Extremities-, and. they 



- accordingly landed under the Fire of their owu 

 Cannon, The .Negroes drew up in a Body of 200a 

 Men, as if they intended to difpute the Matter with 

 them^ and ftaid till the Pyrates advanced within 

 Piftol-fhot but finding the Lofs of two or three, 

 made no ImprefEon on the reft^ the Negroes 

 thought fit to retreat, which they did, with fome 

 Lois : The Pyrates fet Fire to the Town, and then * 

 returned to their Ships. This terrified the Na* 

 tives, and put an entire flop to all the Intercourfe 

 between them ^ fo that they could get no Sup* 

 plies, which obliged them, as fcon as they had 

 finilhed the cleaning and triming of their Ships, to 



* lofe no Time, but went for Cape LofCTi^ and watered, 

 and at Ama-Bona took aboard a Stock of freih Pro- 

 vifions, and then failed for the Coaft again. 



This was their laft and fatal Expedition, which 

 we lhall be more particular in, becauie, it cannot 

 be imagined that they could have had A^^urance 

 to have undertaken it, but upon a Prefumption, 

 that the Men of War, (whom they knew wera 



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