2^3 Capt^ Martho^ Roberts. 



While the Smllo'W was fending their Boat td 

 fetch the Prifoners^ a Blaft and Smoak was feen 

 td pour out of the great Cabin, and they thought 

 they were blowing up^ but upOn enquiry after-* 

 %vardS| found that half a dozen of the moft Delpe- 

 fate^ when they faw all Hopes fled, had drawn 

 themfelves round what Powder they had left in the 

 Ste^rag€f^ and {ired a Piftol into it, but it was too 

 Imall a Quantity to effeO: any Thing more, than 

 burning them in a frightful Manner- 



Thi^ Ship was commanded by one SkyYme\ a 

 Welch Man, who, tho' he had loft his Leg in the 

 Aftion, would not futfer himfelf to be dreifed, or 

 Carried off the Deck but, like WUrington^ fought 

 upon his Stump. The reft apj^eared gay and brisk, 

 moft of them with white Shirts, Watches, and a 

 deal of Silk Vefts^ but the Gold-Duft belonging to 

 them, wi&s moft of it left in the hittU 'Ranger lu 

 thi Bay, (this Company's proper Ship,) with the 

 iRcyd Fortune* 



I cannot but take Notice of two among the 

 Crowd, of thofe disfigured from the Blaft of Pow- 

 der juft before mentioned, viz.* William Main and 

 ^og^T BalL An Officer of th^ Ship feeing a Silver 

 Call hang at the Waft of the former, laid to htm^ 

 / fHfume you are Boat/wain of this Ship. Then you pre^ 

 fume Wrong J anfwered he, for I am Boatfwa'n of the 

 Royal Fortune, Captain Roberts Commander. Then 

 Mf* Boatfwain you will be hanged I believCy replies 

 the Officer* 'that is as your Honour pleafesy anfsvered 

 he agaiHj and was for turning away : But the Of- 

 ficer defired to know of him, how the Powder, 

 which had made them in that Condition, came to 

 take Fire. By G — fays he, they are all mad and 

 hepitch^d^ fir I have lofi a good flat by it» (the Hat and 

 he being both blown out of the Cabin Gallery, 

 into the Sea.) But what ftgnifies a fiat Friendy fays 

 the Officer. — - Not much anfwer'd he, the Men 



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