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the utnioft Confternation, thinking that all three 

 had been Pyrates, and that their Defign had been 

 upon them ^ fo that all the Ships and Veffels chat 

 were in the Road, or in the Rivers up the Bay, 

 h^d Orders immediately to hale in to the Shore, . 

 for their Security, or el'fe to prepare for their De- 

 fence, if they thought themfelves in a Condition 

 to fight. Soon after two Boats, which were fent out 

 to get Intelligence, came crowding in, and brought 

 fin Account, that one ot the Pyrates was in the 

 Bay,. being a fmall Sloop of fix Guns. The Gover- 

 nor expeding the reft would have followed, 

 and altogether make Ibme Attempt to land, for the 

 fake of Plunder, beat to Arms, and coUefted all the 

 Force that could be got together, to oppoie them ; 

 he ordered all the Guns out of the Ships^ to make a 

 Platform, and, in Ihort, put the whole Colony in a 

 warlike Pofture but was very much furprifed at 

 laft, to fee all the fuppofed Pyrates fighting with 

 one another. 



The Truth of the Matter is, Worley gained the 

 Bay, thinking to make fure of his two Prizes, 

 by keeping them from coming in but by the hoift- 

 ing of the King's Colours, and firing a Gun, he 

 'quickly was fenfible of his Miftake, and too foon 

 perceived that the Tables were turned upon him ; 

 that inftead of keeping them out, he found himfelf, 

 by a fliperiour Force kept in. When the Pyrates 

 law how Things went, they refolutely prepared them- 

 felves for a defperate Defence and tho' three to one 

 iodds, Worley and his Crew determined to fight to 

 the laft Gafp, and receive no Quarters, agreeably 

 to what they had before fworn fo that they muft 

 either Dye or Conquer upon the Spot- 



The Carolina Men gave the Pyrate a Broadfide, 

 snd then Boarded him, one Sloop getting upon his 

 Quarter, and the other on his Bow • Worley and 

 the Crew, drew up upon the Deck, and fought 



very 



