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 to Burril, the Boatwain, and the Mater, and up he puts the Bottle; then he takes a Turn with Nut, asking what he thought of the Weather, and uch like. In the mean while Filemore takes up the Axe, and turns it round upon the Point, as if at Play, then both he and Harradine wink at him, thereby letting him know they were ready; upon which Signal he eizes Nut by the Collar, with one Hand between his Legs, and tos’d him over the Side of the Veel, but, he holding by Cheeeman’s Sleeve, aid, He told him it was an unneceary Quetion,  ays he,  o trikes him over the Arm, Nut looes his Hold, tumbles into the Sea, and never poke more.

By this time the Boatwain was dead; for as oon as Filemore aw the Mater laid hold of, he raied up the Axe, and divided his Enemy’s Head in two: The Noie brought the Captain upon Deck, whom Cheeeman aluted with the Blow of a Mallet, which broke his Jaw-Bone, but did not knock him down; Harradine came in then with the Carpenter’s Adds, but Sparks, the Gunner, interpoing between him and Captain Phillips, Cheeeman trips up his Heels, and flung him into the Arms of Charles JvymayIvymay [sic], one of his Conorts, who that Intant dicharg’d him into the Sea; and at the ame Time Harradine compaed his Buines with the Captain aforeaid: Cheeeman lot no Time, but from the Deck jumps into the Hold, and was about to beat out the Brains of Archer, the Quarter-Mater, having truck him two or three Blows with his blunt Weapon the Mallet, when Harry Giles, a young Lad, came down after him, and deir’d his Life might be par’d, as an Evidence of their own Innocence; that he having all the Spoil and Plunder in his Cutody, it may appear, that thee tragick ProccedingsProceedings [sic] were not un- Rh