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 to come ahore, and he would force her to protitute her elf to them all, one after another, before his Face.

In June 1718, he went to Sea, upon another Expedition, and teered his Coure towards Bermudas; he met with two or three Englih Veels in his Way, but robbed them only of Proviions, Stores and other Necearies, for his preent Expence; but near the Iland aforementioned, he fell in with two French Ships, one of them was loaden with Sugar and Cocoa, and the other light, both bound to Martinico; the Ship that had no Lading he let go, and putting all the Men of the loaded Ship aboard her, he brought home the other with her Cargo to North-Carolina, where the Governor and the Pyrates hared the Plunder.

When Teach and his Prize arrived, he and four of his Crew went to his Excellency, and made Affidavit, that they found the French Ship at Sea, without a Soul on Board her; and then a Court was called, and the Ship condemned: The Governor had ixty Hogheads of Sugar for his Dividend, and one Mr. Knight, who was his Secretary, and Collector for the Province, twenty, and the ret was hared among the other Pyrates.

The Buines was not yet done, the Ship remained, and it was poible one or other might come into the River, that might be acquainted with her, and o dicover the Roguery; but Teach thought of a Contrivance to prevent this, for, upon a Pretence that he was leaky, and that he might ink, and o top up the Mouth of the Inlet or Cove where he lay, he obtained an Order from the Governor, to bring her out into the River, and et her on Fire, which was accordingly executed, and he was burnt down to the Water’s Edge, her Bottom unk, and with it, their