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 or Herb for their Subitance, and where they mut have perihed if Major Bonnet had not two Days after taken them off.

Teach goes up to the Governor of North-Carolina, with about twenty of his Men, urrender to his Majety’s Proclamation, and receive Certificates thereof, from his Excellency; but it did not appear that their ubmitting to this Pardon was from any Reformation of Manners, but only to wait a more favourable Opportunity to play the ame Game over again; which he oon after effected, with greater Security to himelf, and with much better Propect of Succes, having in this Time cultivated a very good undertanding with Charles Eden, Eq; the Governor above mentioned.

The firt Piece of Service this kind Governor did to Black-Beard, was, to give him a Right to the Veel which he had taken, when he was a pyrating in the great Ship called the Queen Ann’s Revenge; for which purpoe, a Court of Vice-Admiralty was held at Bath-Town; and, tho’ Teach had never any Commiion in his Life, and the Sloop belonging to the Englih Merchants, and taken in Time of Peace; yet was he condemned as a Prize taken from the Spaniards, by the aid Teach. Thee Proceedings hew that Governors are but Men.

Before he ailed upon his Adventures, he marry’d a young Creature of about ixteen Years of Age, the Governor performing the Ceremony. As it is a Cutom to marry here by a Priet, o it is there by a Magitrate; and this, I have been informed, made Teach’s fourteenth Wife, whereof, about a dozen might be till living. His Behaviour in this State, was omething extraordinary; for, while his Sloop lay in Okerecock Inlet, and he ahore at a Plantation, where his Wife lived, with whom after he had lain all Night, it was his Cutom to invite five or ix of his brutal ons