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 John Rackam was voted Captain of the Brigantine, in Vane’s Room, and proceeded towards the Caribbee Ilands, where we mut leave him, till we have finihed our Story of Charles Vane.

The Sloop ailed for the Bay of Honduras, and Vane and his Crew put her into as good a Condition as they could by the Way, to follow the old Trade. They cruied two or three Days off the North-Wet Part of Jamaica, and took a Sloop and two Pettiagas, and all the Men entered with them; the Sloop they kept, and Robert Deal went Captain of her.

On the 16th of December the two Sloops came into the Bay, where they found only one at an Anchor, call’d the Pearl, of Jamaica, Captain Charles Rowling Mater, who got under Sail at the Sight of them; but the Pyrate Sloops coming near Rowling, and hewing no Colours, he gave them a Gun or two; whereupon they hoited the black Flag, and fired three Guns each, at the Pearl; he truck, and the Pyrates took Poeion, and carried her away to a mall Iland called Barnacko, and there they cleaned, meeting in the Way with a Sloop from Jamaica, Captain Wallden Commander, going down to the Bay, which they alo made Prize of.

In February, Vane ailed from Barnacko, in order for a Cruize; but ome Days after he was out, a violent Turnado overtook him, which eparated him from his Conort, and after two Days Ditres, threw his Sloop upon a mall uninhabited Iland, near the Bay of Honduras, where he was taved to Pieces, and mot of her Men drowned: Vane himelf was aved, but reduced to great Streights, for want of Necearies, having no Opportunity to get any Thing from the Wreck. He lived here ome Weeks, and was ubited chiefly by Fihermen, who frequented the Iland with mall Craft, from the Main, to catch Turtles, &c. Rh