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 wild, made him altogether uch a Figure, that Imagination cannot form an Idea of a Fury, from Hell, to look more frightful.

If he had the look of a Fury, his Humours and Paions were uitable to it; we hall relate two or three more of his Extravagancies, which we omitted in the Body of his Hitory, by which it will appear, to what a Pitch of Wickednes, human Nature may arrive, if it’s Paions are not checked.

In the Commonwealth of Pyrates, he who goes the greatet Length of Wickednes, is looked upon with a kind of Envy amongt them, as a Peron of a more extraordinary Gallantry, and is thereby entitled to be ditinguihed by ome Pot, and if uch a one has but Courage, he mut certainly be a great Man. The Hero of whom we are writing, was thoroughly accomplihed this Way, and ome of his Frolicks of Wickednes, were o extravagant, as if he aimed at making his Men believe he was a Devil incarnate; for being one Day at Sea, and a little fluhed with drink: ays he, ; accordingly he, with two or three others, went down into the Hold, and cloing up all the Hatches, filled everal Pots full of Brimtone, and other combutible Matter, and et it on Fire, and o continued till they were almot uffocated, when ome of the Men cried out for Air; at length he opened the Hatches, not a little pleaed that he held out the longet.

The Night before he was killed, he et up and drank till the Morning, with ome of his own Men, and the Mater of a Merchant-Man, and having had Intelligence of the two Sloops coming to attack him, as has been before oberved; one of his Men aked him, in Cae any thing hould happen to him in the Engagement with the Sloops, whether