Prizes, to depart in her, ſhe being then bound for that Iſland.
After this Cruize, they went into a ſmall Iſland and cleaned, and ſpent their Chriſtmas aſhore, drinking and carouſing as long as they had any Liquor left, and then went to Sea again for more, where they ſucceeded but too well, though they took no extraordinary Prize, for above two Months, except a Ship laden with Thieves from Newgate, bound for the Plantations, which, in a few Days, was retaken with all her Cargo, by an Engliſh Man of War.
Rackam ſtood off towards the Iſland of Burmudas, and took a Ship bound to England from Carolina, and a ſmall Pink from New-England, and brought them to the Bahama Iſlands, where with the Pitch, Tar, and Stores, they clean’d again, and refitted their own Veſſel; but ſtaying too long in that Neighbourhood, Captain Rogers, who was Governor of Providence, hearing of theſe Ships being taken, ſent out a Sloop well mann’d and arm’d, which retook both the Prizes, and in the mean while the Pyrate had the good Fortune to eſcape.
From hence they ſailed to the Back of Cuba, where Rackam kept a little kind of a Family, at which Place, they ſtaid a conſiderable Time, living aſhore with their Dalilahs, till their Money and Proviſion were expended, and then they concluded it Time to look out: They repaired to their Veſſel, and was making ready to put Sea, when a Guarda del Coſta came in with a ſmall Engliſh Sloop, which ſhe had taken as an Interloper on the Coaſt. The Spaniſh Guardſhip attack’d the Pyrate, but Rackam being cloſe in behind a little Iſland, ſhe could do but little Execution where ſhe lay, therefore the Spaniard warps into the Channel that Evening, in order to make ſure of her the next Mor-
