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 Office impoed. If after this he was elected chief Surgeon himelf, both Comry and Wilon were et up alo, and it might have been their Chance to have carried it, and as much out of their Power to have refued.

As to the Attempt of riing and running away with the Prize, he denies it altogether as untrue; a few foolih Words, but only by Way of Suppoition, that if the Negroes hould take it in their Heads (conidering the Weaknes, and ill look-out that was kept;) it would have been an eay Matter, in his Opinion for them to have done it; but that he encouraged uch a Thing, was fale, his talking to them in the Angolan Language, was only a Way of pending his Time, and trying his Skill to tell twenty, he being incapable of further Talk. As to his undertanding Navigation, he had frequently acknowledg’d it to the Deponent Child, and wonders he hould now o circumtantiate this Skill againt him.Guilty.

Robert Johnon

T appeared to the Court, that the Prioner was one of the twenty Men, in that Boat of the Pyrates, which afterwards robb’d the King Solomon, at an Anchor near Cape Appollonia: That all Pyrates on this, and the like Service, were Voluntiers, and he, in particular, had conteted his going on Board a econd Time, tho’ out of his Turn.

The Prioner in his Defence, called for Harry Glaby, who witneed to his being o very drunk, when he firt came among their Crew, that they were forced to hoit him out of one Ship into the other, with a Tackle, and therefore without his Conent; but had ince been a truty Man, and was placed to the Helm, in that running Battle they made with the Swallow. Rh