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 gan to take upon themelves the Ditribution of Jutice, examining the Men concerning their Mater’s Uage of them, according to the Cutom of other Pyrates; but the Captain over-hearing the Matter, put an End to the judicial Proceedings, and fell to rumaging the Ship, aying to them, And peaking to the Prioners, he asked them,  And they anwering in the Affirmative:  aid he,

After the taking of this Prize, they went to the little Iland of Avis, with a Deign to clean, and carried the Lucretia along with them, in order to heave down the Scowerer by her; but meeting there with a Sloop, the Pyrate gave Chace till the Evening, when he was within Gun-Shot of her; but fearing to loe Company with the Lucretia, who was a heavy Sailor, they left off, and aw her no more. This Chace brought them to Leeward of their Port, o that they were obliged to look out for another Place of Retreat, and the Iland of Ruby not being far ditant, they teered for that, and anchored there accordingly; but the next Day a Dutch Sloop coming as it were, into their Mouths, they could not forbear dealing, and o making her their Prize, they plundered her of what came, when hared, to fifty Pounds a Man.

They found this Sloop more for their Purpoe than the Lucretia, to clean their own Sloop by, as being much lower in the Wat, and therefore capable of heaving her Bottom farther out of the Water, o he was dicharged, and the Dutch Man kept in her Room; but not thinking it convenient to lay up here, for fear a dicovery hould be made, they turned their Thoughts another Way, and teered to the Coat of Jamaica, where they took a Sugar Drover, and then run to the Grand Caimanes,