Durfey, and four or five more, got aſhore with ſome Arms and Ammunition; and when the Pyrates Canoe came in for Water, he ſeiz’d the Boat with the Men; upon which Anſtis ordered another Boat to be mann’d with 30 Hands and ſent aſhore, which was accordingly done; but Captain Durfey, and the Company he had by that Time got together, gave them ſuch a warm Reception, that they were contented to betake themſelves to their Veſſel again.
About the beginning of December, 1722, Anſtis left this Place and return’d to the Iſlands, deſigning to accumulate all the Power and Strength he could, ſince there was no looking back. He took in the Cruiſe a good Ship, commanded by Captain Smith, which he mounted with 24 Guns, and Fenn, a one handed Man, who commanded the Morning-Star when ſhe was loſt, went aboard to command her. They cruis’d together, and took a Veſſel or two, and then went to the Bahama Iſlands, and there met with what they wanted, viz. a Sloop loaded with Proviſions, from Dublin, called the Antelope.
It was time now to think of ſome Place to fit up and clean their Frigate lately taken, and put her in a Condition to do Buſineſs; accordingly they pitch’d upon the Iſland of Tobago, where they arrived the beginning of April, 1723, with the Antelope Sloop and her Cargo.
They fell to work immediately, got the Guns, Stores, and every Thing elſe out upon the Iſland, and put the Ship upon the Heel; and juſt then, as ill Luck would have it, came in the Winchelſea Man of War, by Way of Viſit, which put the Marooners into ſuch a Surprize, that they ſet Fire to the Ship and Sloop, and fled aſhore to the Woods. Anſtis, in the Brigantine, eſcap’d, by having a light Pair of Heels, but it put his Company into ſuch a Diſorder, that their Government could never beſet
