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 ide, which was returned by Captain Edwards very bravely, and the Engagement held for an Hour; but Captain Edwards, finding the Pyrate too trong for him, and fearing the Conequence of too obtinate a Reitance againt thoe lawles Fellows, ordered his Enign to be truck. The Pyrates Boat came aboard, and not only rifled the Ship, but whipp’d, beat, and cut the Men in a cruel Manner, turned them aboard their own Ship, and then et Fire to their’s.

In cruiing about the Bay, they met and took everal other Veels without any Reitance, viz. two Brigantines of Boton in New-England, one of which they burnt, and unk the other; a Sloop belonging to Connecticut, Captain Airs, which they alo burnt; a Sloop of Jamaica, Captain Hamilton, they took for their own Ue; a Sloop of Virginia they unladed, and was o generous as to give her back to the Mater that own’d her. They took a Sloop of 100 Ton, belonging to Rhode Iland, which they were pleaed to keep, and mount with eight Carriage, and ten Swivel Guns.

With this little Fleet, viz. Admiral Lowther, in the Happy Delivery; Captain Low, in the Rhode Iland Sloop; Captain Harris, (who was econd Mate in the Greyhound when taken,) in Hamilton’s Sloop, and the little Sloop formerly mentioned, erving as a Tender; I ay, with this Fleet the Pyrates left the Bay, and came to Port Mayo in the Gulph of Matique, and there made Preparations to careen; they carried ahore all their Sails, and made Tents by the Water-Side, wherein they laid their Plunder, Stores, &c. and fell to work; and at the Time that the Ships were upon the Heel, and the good Folks employ’d in heaving down, crubing, tallowing, and o forth; of a udden came down a coniderable Body of the Natives, and attack’d the Py- Rh