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to Snrril^ thq BoatfWain, 2(nd the Matter, To their 

 mxt merry Meetings and u;^ he puts the Bottle then 

 he takes a Turn v^^^Nttt^ asking what he thought 

 of the Weather, and fuch like. In the mean while 

 Ftleimn takes up the Axe, and turns it round up- 

 on the Point, as if a:t Play, then both he and i^^r- 

 facLine wink atl^im, thereby letting him know they 

 were ready upon which Signal he feizes Nut l^y 

 tfe Goltar, with one Hand between his Legs, and 

 tofs'd him over the Side of the Veffel, but, he holding 

 by (Jjeefeman^s Sieeve^ faid. Lord have Mercy upon me ! 

 '(what are you foing to doy Carpenter ? He told him it was 

 an unneceflSry Queftion, Vor^ fays he, Maj^er^ yoU 

 are d dead Man^ lo ftrikes him over the Arm. Nut 

 looles his Hold, tumbles into the Sea, and never 

 fpokemore. 



By this time the Bpatfwaih was dead ^ for as fbon 

 as FUemdre law the Mafter laid hold of, he raifed up 

 the Axe, and dividfed his ^l^nemy'sHead in two: Thie 

 Koife brought the Gaptaih upon Deck, whom Cheefe'^ 

 man faluted with the Blow of a Mallet, which broke 

 his JaW-Bone, but did not knock him down ; Har^ 

 radine came in then with the Carpenter's Adds, but 

 Sfanhy the Gunner, interpofing between him and 

 Captain Phillips^ Cheefem^n trips up his Heels, and 

 flung him into the Arms of Charles Jvymayy one of > 

 his Conforts, who that Inftant difchargM him in- 

 to ' the Sea ^ and at: the fame Time tianadine com*- • 

 paffed his Bufinefs .with the Captain aforefaid r 

 Cheefer^an loft no Time^ but from the Deck jumps 

 into tTie Hold, and was about to beat out the Brains 

 of Archer^ the Quarter-Mafter, haviiig ft ruck him 

 two or three Blows with his blunt Weapon the Mal^ 

 let, v/hen Harry Giles, a young Lad, came down af- 

 ter^ him, and defirM hi^ Lif0 might be fpar'dj as an 

 Evidence of their ov^n lnnbcente- thajt he having 

 all the S'poil andrPlunder in hte Cuftody, it may ap- 

 pear, that thefe* tragick proceedings were not un-, 



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