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 they had taken all the Money, mall Arms and Effects of Value out of the great Ship, and et ahore on a mall andy Iland above a League from the Main, eventeen Men, no doubt with a Deign they hould perih, there being no Inhabitant, or Proviions to ubit withal, nor any Boat or Materials to build or make any kind of Launch or Veel, to ecape from that deolate Place: They remained there two Nights and one Day, without Subitance, or the leat Propect of any, expecting nothing ele but a lingering Death; when to their inexpreable Comfort, they aw Redemption at Hand; for Major Bonnet happening to get Intelligence of their being there, by two of the Pyrates who had ecaped Teach’s Cruelty, and had got to a poor little Village at the upper End of the Harbour, ent his Boat to make Dicovery of the Truth of the Matter, which the poor Wretches eeing, made a ignal to them, and they were all brought on Board Bonnet’s Sloop.

Major Bonnet told all his Company, that he would take a Commiion to go againt the Spaniards, and to that End, was going to St. Thomas’s therefore if they would go with him, they hould be welcome; whereupon they all conented, but as the Sloop was preparing to ail, a Bom-Boat, that brought Apples and Sider to ell to the Sloop’s Men, informed them, that Captain Teach lay at Ocricock Inlet, with only 18 or 20 Hands. Bonnet, who bore him a mortal Hatred for ome Inults offered him, went immediately in puruit of Black-beard, but it happened too late, for he mied of him there, and after four Days Cruize, hearing no farther News of him, they teered their Coure towards Virginia.

In the Month of July, thee Adventurers came off the Capes, and meeting with a Pink with a Stock of Proviions on Board, which they happened to be