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 Friends of the Woman, apply’d to him for Redres, who immediately urrendered the Prioner, and told them, he did not care if they took his Head off; but the Negroes wiely judging it would not fetch o good a Price, they old him in his Turn again to Seignior Joee, a Chritian Black, and Native of that Place; who expected and agreed for two Years Service from him, on Conideration of what he had disbured, for the Redemption of the Woman: But long before the Expiration of this Time, Roberts came into Sierraleon River, where the Prioner, (as Seignior Joee aured the Deponent,) entered a Voluntier with them.

The Deponent further corroborates this Part of the Evidence; in that he being obliged to call at Cape Mount, in his Paage down hither, met there with two Deerters from Roberts’s Ship, who aured him of the ame; and that the Pyrates did deign to turn Davis away the next Opportunity, as an idle good-for-nothing Fellow.

From Glaby and Lilburn, it was evident, that every Pyrate, while they tay’d at Sierraleon, went on Shore at Dicretion. That Roberts had often aured Mr. Glyn and other Traders, at that Place, that he would force no Body; and in hort, there was no Occaion for it; in particular, the Prioner’s Row-Mate went away, and thinks, he might have done the ame, if he had pleaed.

The Prioner alledged his having been detained againt his Will, and ays, that returning with Elephants Teeth for Sierraleon, the Pyrate’s Boat purued and brought him on Board, where he was kept on Account of his undertanding the Pilotage and Navigation of that River.

It was obvious to the Court, not only how frivolous Excues of Contraint and Force were among thee People, at their firt commencing Pyrates, but alo it was plain to them, from thee