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€ome French and fome Englifljy ^nd thai fail'd for the 

 Weft-Indits ; in one of thefe Veflels they took out 

 one John Rofe jirch^r^ who having been a Py rate un- 

 der the famous Black-beard^ was immediately pre^ 

 ferr'd over other People's Heads, to be Quarter- 

 Mafter t6 the Company ; whkh fudden Prdlfto- 

 tion fo difgufted fome of the older Standers, elpe- 

 dally F^r», the Carpenter, that it occafioned foflae 

 Mifchief td follow, as we fliallrfliew by aind by. 



The Py rates came off B^rbptdoes the beginning of 

 (Mober^ and cruifed there, an^ among other Iflaiids, 

 iabove three Months, without fpealcing with a^e£- 

 fel, fo that they were almoft ftarv'd for want of 

 Provifions, being reduc'd to a Pound of Meat ^ 

 Day between ten ^ at lengtli they fell in with a /I/^r- 

 ^tinico Man of X2 Guns and 35 Hands, far fuperior • 

 -in Force, find what they would not have ventur'd 

 on at another Time, hut Hunger will break dovm^om 

 Walls '^ [ they were refolved to fhew the Frem^ 

 'Men their black Flag ; and if that would' not do, 

 ;jthey muft leek out elfe where ^ accordingly, they 

 4boldly ran up a4ong-fide of the Sloop, with theiff 

 'pyratical Colours flying,' and told them, if they 

 did not ftrike immediately, they would give them 

 no Quarters which fo intimidated the Frenchmen^ 

 that they never fired a Gun. This proved a fea- 

 ibnable Supply they took her Provilions, and four 

 of her Men, and let her go. They took prefently 

 rafter, a Sloop belonging to New-York^ ^nd d-Firgima 

 .Man, HuffamMz^er. 



: Having now occafion to clean their Veffel, pjb//- 

 lip proposed Tobago y where the Company he for- 

 merly belongM to, under jinftis and Fenn^ broke up; 

 to induce them to it, he told them when he left 

 the Ifland, there was left behind fix or eight of 

 their Company that were not willing to goto£;7g'- 

 landy with three Negroes : Whereupon they ftil'd 

 to the Ifland, an^J after a c;areful Search, found only 



one 



