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 any Repule? But his Boatwain, Philips, took upon him to be the Mouth of the People, and put an End to the Dipute; he aid plainly, he would not, laid down his Arms in the King’s Name, as he was pleaed to term it, and called out to the Boat for Quarters, o that the ret, by his Example, were milead to the loing of the Ship.

When they came on Board, they brought her under Sail, by an expeditious Method, of cutting the Cable; Walden, one of the Pyrates, telling the Mater, this yo hope of heaving up the Anchor was a needles trouble, when they deigned to burn the Ship. They brought her under Commadore Roberts’s Stern, and not only rifled her of what Sails, Cordage, &c. they wanted for themelves, but wantonly throw’d the Goods of the Company overboard, like Spend-thrifts, that neither expected or deigned any Account.

On the ame Day alo, they took the Fluhing, a Dutch Ship, robbed her of Mats, Yards and Stores, and then cut down her Fore-Mat; but what at as heavily as any thing with the Skipper, was, their taking ome fine Sauages he had on Board, of his Wife’s making, and tringing them in a ludicrous Manner, round their Necks, till they had ufficiently hew’d their Contempt of them, and then threw them into the Sea. Others chopp’d the Heads of his Fowls off, to be dreed for their Supper, and courteouly invited the Landlord, provided he would find Liquor. It was a melancholly Requet to the Man, but it mut be comply’d with, and he was obliged, as they grew drunk, to it quietly, and hear them ing French and Spanih Songs out of his Dutch Prayer-Books, with other Prophanes, that he (tho’ a Dutch Man) tood amazed at.

In chaing too near in, they alarmed the Coat, and Exprees were ent to the Englih and Dutch Facto-