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 very hot Engagement followed, which lated from one a Clock at Noon, till nine next Morning, when the Dutch Man truck, and yielded her elf their Prize.

Davis fitted up the Dutch Ship for his own Ue, and called her the Rover, aboard of which he mounted thirty two Guns, and twenty even Swivels, and proceeded with her and the King James, to Anamaboe; he entered the Bay betwixt the Hours of twelve and one at Noon, and found there three Ships lying at Anchor, who were trading for Negroes, Gold and Teeth: The Names of thee Ships were the Hink Pink, Captain Hall Commander, the Princes, Captain Plumb, of which Roberts, who will make a coniderable Figure in the equel of this Hitory, was econd Mate, and the Morrice Sloop, Captain Fin; he takes thee Ships without any Reitance, and having plundered them, he makes a Preent of one of them, viz. the Morrice Sloop, to the Dutch Men, on Board of which alone were found a hundred and forty Negroes, beides dry Goods, and a coniderable Quantity of Gold-Dut.

It happened there were everal Canoes along Side of this lat, when Davis came in, who aved themelves and got ahore; thee gave Notice at the Fort, that thee Ships were Pyrates, upon which the Fort fired upon them, but without any Execution, for their Mettle was not of Weight enough to reach them; Davis therefore, by Way of Defiance, hoited his black Flag and returned their Compliment.

The ame Day he ail’d with his three Ships, making his Way down the Coat towards Princes, a Portuguee Colony: But, before we proceed any farther in Davis’s Story, we hall give our Reader an Account of the Portuguee Settlements on this Coat, with other curious Remarks, as they were communicated to me by an ingenious Gentleman, lately arvedarrived [sic] from thoe Parts. A De-