which they alſo took along with them. With theſe two Sloops Vane went to a ſmall Iſland and cleaned; where they ſhared their Booty, and ſpent ſome Time in a riotous Manner of Living, as is the Cuſtom of Pyrates.
The latter End of May 1718, they ſail’d, and being in want of Proviſions, they beat up for the Windward Iſlands, and met with a Spaniſh Sloop bound from Porto Rico to the Havana, which they burnt, and ſtowed the Spaniards in a Boat, and left them to get to the Iſland, by the Light of their Veſſel. But ſteering between St. Chriſtopher’s and Anguilla, they fell in with a Brigantine and a Sloop, with the Cargo they wanted; from whom they got Proviſions for Sea-Store.
Sometime after this, ſtanding to the Northward, in the Track the Old-England Ships take, in their Voyage to the American Colonies, they took ſeveral Ships and Veſſels, which they plundered of what they thought fit, and let them paſs.
The latter End of Auguſt, Vane, with his Conſort Yeats, came off South-Carolina, and took a Ship belonging to Ipſwich, one Coggerſhall Commander, laden with Logwood, which was thought convenient enough for their own Buſineſs, and therefore ordered their Priſoners to work, and throw all the Lading over-board; but when they had more than half cleared the Ship, the Whim changed, and then they would not have her; ſo Coggerſhall had his Ship again, and he was ſuffered to purſue his Voyage home. In this Cruize the Rover took ſeveral other Ships and Veſſels, particularly a Sloop from Barbadoes, Dill Maſter; a ſmall Ship from Antegoa, Cock Maſter; a Sloop belonging to Curacco, Richards Maſter; and a large Brigantine, Captain Thompſon, from Guiney, with ninety odd Negroes aboard. The Pyrates plundered them all and let them go, putting the Negroes out of the
