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 which they alo took along with them. With thee two Sloops Vane went to a mall Iland and cleaned; where they hared their Booty, and pent ome Time in a riotous Manner of Living, as is the Cutom of Pyrates.

The latter End of May 1718, they ail’d, and being in want of Proviions, they beat up for the Windward Ilands, and met with a Spanih Sloop bound from Porto Rico to the Havana, which they burnt, and towed the Spaniards in a Boat, and left them to get to the Iland, by the Light of their Veel. But teering between St. Chritopher’s and Anguilla, they fell in with a Brigantine and a Sloop, with the Cargo they wanted; from whom they got Proviions for Sea-Store.

Sometime after this, tanding to the Northward, in the Track the Old-England Ships take, in their Voyage to the American Colonies, they took everal Ships and Veels, which they plundered of what they thought fit, and let them pas.

The latter End of Augut, Vane, with his Conort Yeats, came off South-Carolina, and took a Ship belonging to Ipwich, one Coggerhall Commander, laden with Logwood, which was thought convenient enough for their own Buines, and therefore ordered their Prioners to work, and throw all the Lading over-board; but when they had more than half cleared the Ship, the Whim changed, and then they would not have her; o Coggerhall had his Ship again, and he was uffered to purue his Voyage home. In this Cruize the Rover took everal other Ships and Veels, particularly a Sloop from Barbadoes, Dill Mater; a mall Ship from Antegoa, Cock Mater; a Sloop belonging to Curacco, Richards Mater; and a large Brigantine, Captain Thompon, from Guiney, with ninety odd Negroes aboard. The Pyrates plundered them all and let them go, putting the Negroes out of the Brigan-