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36 Pyrates there, who upon the coming of the Men of War, all urrendered to the Pardon, except Charles Vane and his Crew, which happened after this Manner.

I have before decribed the Harbour to have two Inlets, by Means of a mall Iland lying at the Mouth of it; at one of which, both the Men of War entered, and left the other open, o that Vane lip’d his Cable, et Fire to a large Prize they had there, and reolutely put out, firing at the Man of War as he went off.

As oon as Captain Rogers had ettled himelf in his Government, he built a Fort for his Defence, and garrioned it with the People he found upon the Iland; the quondam Pyrates, to the Number of 400, he formed into Companies, appointed Officers of thoe whom he mot confided in, and then et about to ettle a Trade with the Spaniards, in the Gulf of Mexico; in one of which Voyages, Captain Burges abovementioned, died, and Captain Hornigold, another of the famous Pyrates, was cat away upon Rocks, a great Way from Land, and perihed, but five of his Men got into a Canoe and were aved.

Captain Rogers ent out a Sloop to get Proviions, and gave the Command to one John Augur, one of the Pyrates, who had accepted of the Act of Grace; in their Voyage they met with two Sloops, and John and his Comrades not yet forgetting their former Buines, made Ue of their old Freedom, and took out of them in Money and Goods, to the Value of about 500 l. after this they teered away for Hipaniola, not being atify’d whether the Governor would admit them to carry on two Trades at once, and o thought to have bidden Farewel to the Bahama Ilands; but as ill Luck would have it, they met with a violent Turnado, wherein they lot their Mat, and were drove back to one of the