f'aStories, giving an Account of it : They werd 

 ienfi bie of this Error immediately^ and becaMf^ 

 they vVould ixiake the beft of a bad Market^ re*^ 

 Iblved to keep out of fight of Land, and Ibfe th^ 

 Prizes they might ej^pefl: between that and W^hy^ 

 dahy to iliake the riiore lure of that Port^ \vhgrd 

 comtnonly is the beft Booty ^ all Nations trading 

 thither, efpecially P^^mj-^^^^/^, who purchale chiefly 

 with Gold, the Idol their Hearts were bent updm 

 And notwithftanding this unlikely Courfe^ they 

 met and took feveral Ships between Axim and that: 

 Place-, the circumftantial Stories of which^ and, 

 the pannick Terrors they ftruck into his Majefty's 

 Subjeds, being tedious and unneceffary to relatej 

 I fliall pafs by^ and come to their Arriv^al in that: 

 Road^ 



They came to Whydah with at St. Georges ^n^gri^ 

 a black Silk Flag flying at their Mizen-Peek, and 

 a Jack and Pendant of the faiiie : The Flag had a 

 Death in it, with an Hour-Glafs in one Hand^j 

 and crofS Bones in the other^ a Dart by it^ and 

 undenieath a Heart dropping threfe Drops of Bloods 

 ^— The Jack had a Man pour trayM in it^ with 

 a fiaitiing Sword in his Hand, and ftanding on f wa 

 Skulls, fubfcribed A B // and AMU ue. ^Bar^ 

 badidn^s and a Martlnkari s Head, as has been be-^, 

 fore taken Notice of. Here they found eleVeri 

 Sail in the Road, Erjglijhy French ^nd Ponnguefe 5 thd 

 Prench were three ftoiit Ships of 30 Guns, and utf- 

 wards of too Men eaich, yet when RobMs <5aiti^ 

 to Fire, they, with the other Ships, immediately 

 ftruck their Colours and furrendred to his Mercp 

 One Reafon, it mu& be confefs'd^ of hi$ eafy 

 Viaory,' was, the Comirianders and a gdtfd Part of 

 the M^n being alhdre^ ^ccordipg to the Cvi&m 6f 

 the Place^ to receive the Cargoes^ and return th@^ 

 Slavtis^ they being obliged to Watch the Seafdnsfor 

 i*i Which othflWife, ill fd dangertfus * Sea as h^r^^ 



