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 with a flaming Sword in his Hand, intimating a Defyance of Death it elf.

The Swallow returned back into Cape Lopez Bay, and found the little Ranger, whom the Pyrates had deerted in hat, for the better Defence of the Ship: She had been plunder’d, according to what I could learn, of 2000 l. in Gold-Dut, (the Shares of thoe Pyrates who belonged to her;) and Captain Hill, in the Neptune, not unjutly upected, for he would not wait the Man of War’s returning into the Bay again, but ail’d away immediately, making no Scruple afterwards to own the Seizure of other Goods out of her, and urrender’d, as a Confirmation of all, 50 Ounces at Barbadoes, for which, ee the Article at the End of this Book.

To um up the whole, if it be conidered, firt, that the ickly State of the Men of War, when they ail’d from Princes, was the Mifortune that hindered their being as far as Sierraleon, and conequently out of the Track the Pyrates then took. That thoe Pyrates, directly contrary to their Deign, in the econd Expedition, hould get above Cape Coro, and that nigh Axim, a Chace hould offer, that inevitably mut dicover them, and be oon communicated to the Men of War. That the atiating their evil and malicious Tempers at Whydah, in burning the Porcupine, and running off with the French Ship, had trengthened the Swallow with 30 Men. That the Swallow hould mis them in that Road, where probably he had not, or at leat o effectually obtained her End. That they hould be o far infatuated at Cape Lopez, as to divide their Strength, which when collected, might have been o formidable. And latly, that the Conquet hould be without Bloodhed: I ay, conidering all thee Circumtances, it hews that the Hand of Providence was concerned in their Detruction. As