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 the ret from Detruction; for before that Teach had little or no Hopes of ecaping, and therefore had poted a reolute Fellow, a Negroe, whom he had bred up, with a lighted Match, in the Powder-Room, with Commands to blow up when he hould give him Orders, which was as oon as the Lieutenant and his Men could have entered, that o he might have detroy’d his Conquerors: and when the Negro found how it went with Black-beard, he could hardly be perwaded from the rah Action, by two Prioners that were then in the Hold of the Sloop.

What eems a little odd, is, that ome of thee Men, who behaved o bravely againt Black-beard, went afterwards a pyrating themelves, and one of them was taken along with Roberts; but I do not find that any of them were provided for, except one that was hanged; but this is a Digreion.

The Lieutenant caued Black-beard’s Head to be evered from his Body, and hung up at the Bolt-prit End, then he ailed to Bath-Town, to get Relief for his wounded Men.

It mut be oberved, that in rummaging the Pyrate’s Sloop, they found everal Letters and written Papers, which dicovered the Correpondence betwixt Governor Eden, the Secretary and Collector, and alo ome Traders at New-York, and Black-beard. It is likely he had Regard enough for his Friends, to have detroyed thee Papers before the Action, in order to hinder them from falling into uch Hands, where the Dicovery would be of no Ue, either to the Interet or Reputation of thee fine Gentlemen, if it had not been his fixed Reolution to have blown up together, when he found no poibility of ecaping.

When the Lieutenant came to Bath-Town, he made bold to eize in the Governor’s Store-Houe, the Rh