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 Prizes, to depart in her, he being then bound for that Iland.

After this Cruize, they went into a mall Iland and cleaned, and pent their Chritmas ahore, drinking and carouing as long as they had any Liquor left, and then went to Sea again for more, where they ucceeded but too well, though they took no extraordinary Prize, for above two Months, except a Ship laden with Thieves from Newgate, bound for the Plantations, which, in a few Days, was retaken with all her Cargo, by an Englih Man of War.

Rackam tood off towards the Iland of Burmudas, and took a Ship bound to England from Carolina, and a mall Pink from New-England, and brought them to the Bahama Ilands, where with the Pitch, Tar, and Stores, they clean’d again, and refitted their own Veel; but taying too long in that Neighbourhood, Captain Rogers, who was Governor of Providence, hearing of thee Ships being taken, ent out a Sloop well mann’d and arm’d, which retook both the Prizes, and in the mean while the Pyrate had the good Fortune to ecape.

From hence they ailed to the Back of Cuba, where Rackam kept a little kind of a Family, at which Place, they taid a coniderable Time, living ahore with their Dalilahs, till their Money and Proviion were expended, and then they concluded it Time to look out: They repaired to their Veel, and was making ready to put Sea, when a Guarda del Cota came in with a mall Englih Sloop, which he had taken as an Interloper on the Coat. The Spanih Guardhip attack’d the Pyrate, but Rackam being cloe in behind a little Iland, he could do but little Execution where he lay, therefore the Spaniard warps into the Channel that Evening, in order to make ure of her the next Rh