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 of bringing more Calamities upon themelves, and o they were forced to let the Villains pas with Impunity. The Government were not long in deliberating upon the Meage, tho’ ’twas the greatet Affront that could have been put upon them; yet for the aving o many Mens Lives, (among them, Mr. Samuel Wragg, one of the Council;) they comply’d with the Neceity, and ent aboard a Chet, valued at between 3 and 400 l. and the Pyrates went back afe to their Ships.

Blackbeard, (for o Teach was generally called, as we hall hereafter hew) as oon as he had received the Medicines and his Brother Rogues, let go the Ships and the Prioners; having firt taken out of them in Gold and Silver, about 1500 l. Sterling, beides Proviions and other Matters.

From the Bar of Charles-Town, they ailed to North-Carolina; Captain Teach in the Ship, which they called the Man of War, Captain Richards and Captain Hands in the Sloops, which they termed Privateers, and another Sloop erving them as a Tender. Teach began now to think of breaking up the Company, and ecuring the Money and the bet of the Effects for himelf, and ome others of his Companions he had mot Friendhip for, and to cheat the ret: Accordingly, on Pretence of running into Topail Inlet to clean, he grounded his Ship, and then, as if it had been done undeignedly, and by Accident; he orders Hands’s Sloop to come to his Aitance, and get him off again, which he endeavouring to do, ran the Sloop on Shore near the other, and o were both lot. This done, Teach goes into the Tender Sloop, with forty Hands, and leaves the Revenge there; then takes eventeen others and Marroons them upon a mall andy Iland, about a League from the Main, where there was neither Bird, Beat or