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lie Night Before : When I came without the Spit-end , I 
aluted the Hajlings with feven Guns * fhe returned five, 
and I three for Thanks. We had now above double the 
Number of Officers ufual in Privateers, and a large Com- 
plement of Men to each Ship. We took this Method of 
doubling our Officers, to prevent Mutinies, which often 
happen in long Voyages ; and that we might have a large 
Provifion for a Succeffion of Officers in each Ship, in cafe 
of Mortality". Our Ship was now fo full, that we lent our 
Sheet-cable, ahd other new Store-cordage, to Mr. Noblei 
Rogers , at Cork , to make Room for our Men and Pfo- 
vifions, having three Cables befides, and being willing 
rather to fpare that, than any thing elfe we had on board. 
Our Crew were continually marrying while we ftaid at 
Cork, though they expedted to fail immediately. Among 
others, there was a Dane coupled by a Romiffi Prieft to 
an Irifh Woman, without underftanding a Word of each 
other’s Language, fo that they were forced to ufe an Inter- 
preter * yet I perceived, that this Pair feemed more 
affiidted at Separation, than any of the reft : The Fellow 
continued melancholy for feveral Days after we were at Sea. 
The reft, underftanding each other, drank their Cans of 
Flip till the laft Minute, concluded with a Health to our 
good Voyages, and their happy Meeting, and then parted 
unconcerned. Moft of us, the chief Officers, embraced 
this Defign of Privateering round the World* to retrieve 
the Loffes we had fuftained by the Enemy. Our Comple- 
ment of Sailors in both Ships was 333, of which above 
one-third were Foreigners from moft Nations • feveral of her 
Majefty’s Subjects on board were Tinkers, Taylors, Hay- 
makers, Pedlars, Fidlers, one Negro, and about ten 
Boys. With this mixed Crew we hoped to be well manned, 
as foon as they had learnt the Ufe of Arms, and got their 
Sea, Legs* which we doubted not foon to teach them, and 
bring them to Difeipline. 
5. On the firft oi September we took failing Orders, the 
better to keep Company with the Hajlings and Fleet •, and, 
after having agreed with our Confort Captain Courtney , on 
Signals between us, which are fo common, that I need not 
Infert them here, and appointed Places of Rendefvous, in 
cafe of Separation, and how long to lie for each other at 
every Place, about ten in the Morning we came to fail 
with the Hajlings , and about twenty Merchant Ships 
bound to the Southward and Weftward, Wind at North 
and by Weft : We ffiould have failed the Day before, but 
could not weigh and caft our Ships clear of the reft * fome 
at that time drove, and the Sherflone Galley ran quite 
afliore on the Spit. In the Night it grew moderate 
Weather, and Captain Paul of the Hajlings got her off to 
fail with us. Our Holds were full of Provifions, our 
Cables, a great deal of Bread, and Water-cafks between 
Decks, and 183 Men aboard th e Duke, with 15 1 aboard 
the Duchefs * fo that we were very much crouded, not fit 
to engage an Enemy, without throwing Provifion and 
Stores overboard. The next Day, we, and our Confort, 
Hood out of the Fleet, to chafe a Sail we faw to Wind- 
ward. Our Ships failed as well as any in the Fleet, not 
excepting the Man of War* fo that we began to hope we 
fliould find our Heels, fince we went fo well, though deep- 
laden. We found the Chace to be a fmall Vefiel coming 
into the Fleet from Baltimore. On the 4th, it blew freffi 
in the Morning : Captain Paul ffiade a Signal for me. 
Captain Courtney, and Captain Edwards, Commander of 
the Scipio * and, after fpeaking with him, he fent his Boat 
for us, being larger than ours : We, with Mr. Dover, and 
Mr. Vanbrugh , went in her, and found Captain Paul aboard 
his Ship. He propofed to me and Confort, when he left 
the Fleet, which would be very foon, to cruife a few Days 
together off Cape Finijlre. After having afked us what 
we' wanted, that he could fupply us with, he o- a ve us 
Scrubbers, Iron Scrapers for the Ship-Bottom, a Speaking- 
trumpet, and other Things, that we had not * but he 
would accept nothing from us, becaufe our V oyage would 
be long * but told us, he ffiould be well pleafed, if our 
Owners returned him the fame Neceffaries for his Ship 
when he came back. About fix in the Evening we returned 
to bur own Ship, and, having called all our Crew upon 
Deck, we acquainted them whither we were bound, and 
what our Defigns were, that, in cafe any Difputes had arifen, 
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we might have fent the Mutineers home in her MajeflVs 
Snip of Var * but there was nobody at all diffatisfied 
except one poor Fellow, who was to have been Tything- 
man that Year, and was apprehenfive his Wife would be 
obliged to pay forty Shillings for his Default * but, when 
he fow every body elfe eafy, and ftrong Hopes of Plunder 
he hkewife grew quiet by degrees, and drank as heartily as 
any body, to the good Succefs of the Voyage,. 
6 . On the 10th, about fix in the Morning, we faw - 
to N hlch we immediately gave Chace ; About time- 
m the Afternoon we came up with her, and then ffie bore 
downright upon us, ffiewing Swedifh Colours : I fired twPe 
at her, before ffie brought to 5 then went aboard her with 
my Yawl, Daptam Courtney’s Boat being juft before, me. 
e examined the Mafter, and found he came round Scot- 
land and Ireland * we Tufpefted he had contraband Goods 
on board, becaufe feme of the Men, we found drunk 
told us, they had Gunpowder and Cables on board : So we 
refolved to examine her ftr icily, put twelve Men on board 
er, and kept the Swedes Mafter, and twelve of his Men 
on board our Ships. The next Morning, after we had 
examined the Men, and fearched the Ship, we found it 
difficult to prove ffie was a Prize * and not willing to hin- 
der lime to carry her into any Harbour, to examine her 
mi ™ a 6 £t her g ° WlthoUt the leaft Embezzlement. 
1 he Mafter gave me two Hams, and fome rough-dried 
Beef * and I gave him a dozen Bottles of Redjlreak Cyder 
They faluted us at parting with four Guns : She belonged 
to Stadt near Hamburgh , and was a Frigate-built Ship" of 
22 Guns, about 270 Tons. While I was on board tW 
Swede Yefterday, . our Men mutiny’d * the Ring-leaders 
being our Boatfwam, and three other inferior Officers. This 
Morning, the chief Officers having kept with me in the 
After-part of the Ship, we confined the Authors of this 
Diforder, in which there was not one Foreigner concerned : 
VVe put ten of the Mutineers in Irons, a Sailor being firft 
joundly whipped for exciting the reft to join him * offers, 
left gufity, I puniffied and difeharged * but kept the chief 
Officers all armed, fearing what might happen. The Ship’s 
Company Teeming too much inclined to favour the Muti- 
neers, made me more eafy to forgive : Some begged Pardon 
and others I was forced to wink at : However, they beo-an 
to find their Defign fruftrated, which "was to make a Prize 
of the Swede, who they alleged had much contraband 
Goods aboard, though we could fee none : Yet they obfti- 
nately infilled, that we apparently gave away their Intereft 
by letting her go without plundering her. I laboured to 
convince them of the Neceffity of our making Difoatch * 
and that, if we could make her a Prize, it would unman 
our Ships too much to fend her into any Port * befides 
other Disadvantages it might procure to ourfelves and Own- 
ers, ffiould we be miftaken * which pacified the major Part : 
Our Conforms Men were at firft very uneafy * but, findino- 
the Malecontents quelled aboard our Ship, they all kept 
quiet. We had afterwards a great deal of Trouble with 
thefe Fellows, who did us more Mifchief when in Irons than 
before, by ftirring up the Men to releafe them * pretending 
that they iufteied in the Caufe of the Crew, and therefore 
the Crew ougnt to rife and refeue them. This determined 
me to make fome Examples * but I ftill refolved to go the 
mildeft way to work I could * and therefore began with re- 
moving Giles Cajh from being Boatfwain, and made an- 
other in his room, without intending any thing farther. 
But, on September 4. this inteftine Storm rofe higher than 
ever * for a Sailor came up to me at the Steerage-door, 
with the beft Part of the Ship’s Company at his Heels, 
demanding the Boatfwain immediately out of Cuftody • 
Upon this, I defired him to fpeak with me by himfelf on 
the Quai ter-deck * which he did ; where the Officers affift- 
ing me, I feized him, and made one of his chief Comrades 
whip him. This Method I thought beft for breaking any 
unlawful Friendffiip among themfelves * which, with dif- 
ferent Corrections to other Offenders, allayed the Tumult * 
fo that now they began to fubmit quietly, and thofe in 
Irons begged Pardon, and promifed Amendment. This Mm 
tiny would not have been eafily laid, were it not for the 
Number of our Officers, which we began to find very ne~ 
ceffary to bring our Crew to Order and Difeipline * which is 
always very difficult in Privateers, and without which ’tis 
impoffibie 
