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 Durfey, and four or five more, got ahore with ome Arms and Ammunition; and when the Pyrates Canoe came in for Water, he eiz’d the Boat with the Men; upon which Antis ordered another Boat to be mann’d with 30 Hands and ent ahore, which was accordingly done; but Captain Durfey, and the Company he had by that Time got together, gave them uch a warm Reception, that they were contented to betake themelves to their Veel again.

About the beginning of December, 1722, Antis left this Place and return’d to the Ilands, deigning to accumulate all the Power and Strength he could, ince there was no looking back. He took in the Cruie a good Ship, commanded by Captain Smith, which he mounted with 24 Guns, and Fenn, a one handed Man, who commanded the Morning-Star when he was lot, went aboard to command her. They cruis’d together, and took a Veel or two, and then went to the Bahama Ilands, and there met with what they wanted, viz. a Sloop loaded with Proviions, from Dublin, called the Antelope.

It was time now to think of ome Place to fit up and clean their Frigate lately taken, and put her in a Condition to do Buines; accordingly they pitch’d upon the Iland of Tobago, where they arrived the beginning of April, 1723, with the Antelope Sloop and her Cargo.

They fell to work immediately, got the Guns, Stores, and every Thing ele out upon the Iland, and put the Ship upon the Heel; and jut then, as ill Luck would have it, came in the Winchelea Man of War, by Way of Viit, which put the Marooners into uch a Surprize, that they et Fire to the Ship and Sloop, and fled ahore to the Woods. Antis, in the Brigantine, ecap’d, by having a light Pair of Heels, but it put his Company into uch a Diorder, that their Government could never be