very hot Engagement followed, which laſted from one a Clock at Noon, till nine next Morning, when the Dutch Man ſtruck, and yielded her ſelf their Prize.
Davis fitted up the Dutch Ship for his own Uſe, and called her the Rover, aboard of which he mounted thirty two Guns, and twenty ſeven Swivels, and proceeded with her and the King James, to Anamaboe; he entered the Bay betwixt the Hours of twelve and one at Noon, and found there three Ships lying at Anchor, who were trading for Negroes, Gold and Teeth: The Names of theſe Ships were the Hink Pink, Captain Hall Commander, the Princeſs, Captain Plumb, of which Roberts, who will make a conſiderable Figure in the ſequel of this Hiſtory, was ſecond Mate, and the Morrice Sloop, Captain Fin; he takes theſe Ships without any Reſiſtance, and having plundered them, he makes a Preſent of one of them, viz. the Morrice Sloop, to the Dutch Men, on Board of which alone were found a hundred and forty Negroes, beſides dry Goods, and a conſiderable Quantity of Gold-Duſt.
It happened there were ſeveral Canoes along Side of this laſt, when Davis came in, who ſaved themſelves and got aſhore; theſe gave Notice at the Fort, that theſe Ships were Pyrates, upon which the Fort fired upon them, but without any Execution, for their Mettle was not of Weight enough to reach them; Davis therefore, by Way of Defiance, hoiſted his black Flag and returned their Compliment.
The ſame Day he ſail’d with his three Ships, making his Way down the Coaſt towards Princes, a Portugueſe Colony: But, before we proceed any farther in Davis’s Story, we ſhall give our Reader an Account of the Portugueſe Settlements on this Coaſt, with other curious Remarks, as they were communicated to me by an ingenious Gentleman, lately arved from thoſe Parts.
