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 a Mulatto Boy, who was allow’d to attend them, and proved very truty in his Meages, between the Principals; but the Evening of that Night they were to have made this Struggle, two of the Prioners that at next to Ahplant, heard the Boy whiper them upon the Project, and naming to him the Hour they hould be ready, preently gave Notice of it to the Captain, which put the Ship in an Alarm, for a little Time; and, on Examination, everal of them had made hift to break off, or loe, their Shackles, (no doubt for uch Purpoe;) but it tended only to procure to themelves wore Uage and Confinement.

In the ame Paage to Cape Coro, the Prize, Royal Fortune, was in the ame Danger. She was left at the Iland of St. Thomas’s, in the Poeion of an Officer, and a few Men, to take in ome freh Proviions, (which were carce at Cape Coro) with Orders to follow the Ship. There were only ome of the Pyrates Negroes, three or four wounded Prioners, and Scudamore, their Surgeon; from whom they eemed to be under no Apprehenion, epecially from the lat, who might have hoped for Favour, on Account of his Employ; and had tood o much indebted for his Liberty, eating and drinking contantly with the Officer; yet this Fellow, regardles of the Favour, and lot to all Sene of Reformation, endeavoured to bring over the Negroes to his Deign of murdering the People, and running away with the Ship. He eaily prevailed with the Negroes to come into the Deign; but when he came to communicate it to his Fellow Prioners, and would have drawn them into the ame Meaures, by telling them, he undertood Navigation, that the Negroes were tout Fellows, and by a Smattering he had in the Angolan Language, he had found willing to undertake uch an Enterprize; and that it was better venturing to do this, run down