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 They took at Calabar, Captain Loane, and two or three Britol Ships, the Particulars of all which would be an unneceary Prolixity, therefore I come now to give an Account of the Uage they received from the Natives of this Place. The Calabar Negroes did not prove o civil as they expected, for they refued to have any Commerce or Trade with them, when they undertood they were Pyrates: An Indication that thee poor Creatures, in the narrow Circumtances they were in, and without the Light of the Gopel, or the Advantage of an Education, have, notwithtanding, uch a moral innate Honety, as would upbraid and hame the mot knowing Chritian: But this did but exaperate thee lawles Fellows, and o a Party of 40 Men were detach’d to force a Correpondence, or drive the Negroes to Extremities; and they accordingly landed under the Fire of their own Cannon. The Negroes drew up in a Body of 2000 Men, as if they intended to dipute the Matter with them, and taid till the Pyrates advanced within Pitol-hot; but finding the Los of two or three, made no Impreion on the ret, the Negroes thought fit to retreat, which they did, with ome Los: The Pyrates et Fire to the Town, and then return’d to their Ships. This terrified the Natives, and put an entire top to all the Intercoure between them; o that they could get no Supplies, which obliged them, as oon as they had finihed the cleaning and triming of their Ships, to loe no Time, but went for Cape Lopez, and watered, and at Anna-Bona took aboard a Stock of freh Proviions, and then ailed for the Coat again.

This was their lat and fatal Expedition, which we hall be more particular in, becaue, it cannot be imagined that they could have had Aurance to have undertaken it, but upon a Preumption, that the Men of War, (whom they knew were upon