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Office impofed. If after this he was elefted chief 

 Surgeon hin^felf, both Comry and WHfon were fet 

 up alio, and it might have been their Chance to 

 have carried it, and as much out of their Power 

 to have refufed. 



As to the f Attempt of riling and running away 

 with the Prize, he denies it altogether as untrue ; 

 SL few foolifti Words, but only by Way of Suppo- 

 fition, that if the Negroes ftiould take it in their 

 Heads (confidering the Weaknefs, and ill look-out' 

 that was kept ) it would have been an eafy 

 Matter, in his Opinion for them to have done it ; 

 but that he encouraged fuch a Thing, was falfe, 

 his talking to them in the Angolan Language, was 

 only a Way of fpending his I'ime^ and trying his 

 Skill to tell twenty, he being incapable of fur- 

 ther Talk. As to his underftanding Navigation, 

 he had frequently acknowledged it to the Deponent 

 Child^ and Wonders he ihould now fb circumfran- 

 tiate this Skill againft him. Guilty. 



Robert Johnfon. 



IT appeared to the Court, that the Prlfoner was 

 one of the twenty Men, in that Boat of the 

 Pyrates, which afterwards robb'd the JGr^g Solomony 

 at an Anchor near Cape Applloma : That all Py- 

 rates on this, and the like bervice, were Volun- 

 tiers, and he, in particular, had contefted his going 

 on Boardafecond Time, tho' out of his Turn. 



The Prifoner in his Defence, called for Harry 

 CUshy^ who witnelled to his being fo very drunk, 

 when he firft came among their Crew, that they 

 were forced to hoift him out of one Ship into 

 the other, with a Tackle, anH therefore without 

 his Confent but had fmce been a trufly Man, and. 

 was placed to the Helm, in that running Battle 



they made with the Swallow* 



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