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gan to take upffa themfelyes the Diftrlbution of 

 Juftice, examining the Men concerning their Ma- 

 ker's Ufage of them, according to the Cuftom of 

 other Pyratesi but the Captain over-hearing the 

 Matter, put an End to the judicial Proceedings, 

 and fell to rumaging the Ship, laying to them, 

 IVhat have we to do to turn Reformers^ ^tis Money we want ? 

 And fpeaking to the Prifoners, he asked them, Doer 

 your Captain give you V'iBuals enough ? And they anfwer- 

 ing in the Affirmative : Why then, faid he, he ought to 

 give you Work enough. 



After the taking of this Prize, they went to the 

 little Ifland of Avisy with a Defign to clean, and 

 carried the Lucretia along with them, in order to 

 heave down the Scowerer by her but meeting there 

 with a Sloop, the Py rate gave Chace till the Eve- 

 ning, when ftie was within Gun-Shot of her ^ but 

 fearing to Ipfe Company with tlie Lucretia^ who 

 was a heavy Sailor, they left off, and faw her no 

 more. This Chace brought them to Leeward of 

 their Port, lb that they were obliged to look out 



' for another Place of Retreat, and the liland of 

 not being far diftant, they fteered for that, 

 and anchored there accordingly but the next Day 

 a Dutch Sloop coming as it were, into their Mouths, 

 they could not forbear dealing, and fo making her 

 their Vxrie^ they plundered her of what came, when 

 fliared, to fifty Pounds a Man. 



They found this Sloop more for their Purpofe 

 than the JLucretia^ to clean their own Sloop by, as 

 being much lower in the Waft, and therefore capa- 

 ble of heaving her Bottom farther out of the Wa- 



^ . tpr, fo fhe was difchafeged, and the Dutch Man kept 

 in her Room but not thinking it convenient to 



I; lay up here, for fear a dilcovery fliould be made, 

 they turned their Thoughts another Way, and 

 iteered to the Coaft of Jamaica^ where they took a 

 Siugar DroYe^*, and then run to 4ihe Grand Caimmesy 



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