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 Thing he owned to be his: The Paron laid hold of this favourable Dipoition of the Pyrates, and laid Claim to everal Things belonging to others, which were alo given up, to his great Satifaction; in fine, they kept nothing which belonged to the Church, except three Prayer-Books, and a Bottle-Screw.

The Pyrates kept the Onlow for their own Ue, and gave Captain Gee the French Ship, and then fell to making uch Alterations as might fit her for a Sea-Rover, pulling down her Bulk-Heads, and making her fluh, o that he became, in all Repects, as compleat a Ship for their Purpoe, as any they could have found; they continued to her the Name of the Royal Fortune, and mounted her with 40 Guns.

She and the Ranger proceeded (as I aid before,) to Jaquin, and from thence to Old Calabar, where they arrived about October, in order to clean their Ships, a Place the mot uitable along the whole Coat, for there is a Bar with not above 15 Foot Water upon it, and the Channel intricate, o that had the Men of War been ure of their being harbour’d here, they might till have bid Defiance to their Strength, for the Depth of Water at the Bar, as well as the want of a Pilot, was a ufficient Security to the Rovers, and invincible Impediments to them. Here therefore they at eay, and divided the Fruits of their dihonet Intutry, The Pilot who brought them into this Harbour, was Captain Le, who for this, and other Services, was extreamly well paid, according to the Journal of their own Accounts, which do not run in the ordinary and common way, of Debtor, contra Creditor, but much more concie, lumping it to their Friends, and o carrying the Debt in their Heads, againt the next honet Trader they meet.