threw them over-board into the Sea; all this was done with inceſſant curſing and ſwearing, more like Fiends than Men. They carried with them, Sails, Guns, Powder, Cordage, and 8 or 9000 l. worth of the choiceſt Goods; and told Captain Cary, That they ſhould accept of no Act of Grace; that the K and Pt might be damned with their Acts of G for them; neither would they go to Hope-Point, to be hang’d up a Sun drying, as Kidd’s, and Braddiſh’s Company were; but that if they ſhould ever be overpower’d, they would ſet Fire to the Powder, with a Piſtol, and go all merrily to Hell together.
After they had brought all the Booty aboard, a Conſultation was held whether they ſhould ſink or burn the Ship, but whilſt they were debating the Matter, they ſpyed a Sail, and ſo left the Samuel, to give her Chace; at Midnight they came up with the ſame, which proved to be a Snow from Briſtol, bound for Boſton, Captain Bowles Maſter: They us’d him barbarouſly, becauſe of his Country, Captain Rogers, who attack’d them off Barbadoes, being of the City of Briſtol.
July the 16th, which was two Days afterwards, they took a Virginia Man called the Little York, James Philips Maſter, and the Love, of Leverpool, which they plundered and let go; the next Day a Snow from Briſtol, call’d the Phoenix, John Richards Maſter, met with the ſame Fate from them; as alſo a Brigantine, Captain Thomas, and a Sloop called the Sadbury; they took all the Men out of the Brigantine, and ſunk the Veſſel.
When they left the Banks of Newfoundland, they ſailed for the Weſt-Indies, and the Proviſions growing ſhort, they went for the Latitude of the Iſland Deſeada, to cruiſe, it being eſteemed the likelieſt Place to meet with ſuch Ships as (they uſed in their Mirth to ſay) were conſigned to them, with Supplies. And it has been very much ſuſpected that
