ing a bleeding Heart, and in the other, an Hour-Glaſs; when this was finiſhed and hoiſted, they fired all their Guns to ſalute their Captain and themſelves, and then looked out for Prey.
In their Voyage to the Weſt-Indies, theſe Pyrates took a Portugueſe Bark, wherein they got valuable Plunder, but not contented with that alone, they ſaid they would have a little Game with the Men, and ſo ordered them a Sweat, more for the Brutes Diverſion, than the poor Men’s Healths; which Operation is performed after this Manner; they ſtick up lighted Candles circularly round the Mizon-Maſt, between Decks, within which the Patients one at a Time enter; without the Candles, the Pyrates poſt themſelves, as many as can ſtand, forming another Circle, and armed with Pen-Knives, Tucks, Forks, Compaſſes, &c. and as he runs round and round, the Muſick playing at the ſame Time, they prick him with thoſe Inſtuments; this uſually laſts for 10 or 12 Minutes, which is as long as the miſerable Man can ſupport himſelf. When the Sweating was over, they gave the Portugueſe their Boat with a ſmall Quantity of Proviſions, and ſet their Veſſel on Fire.
Near the Iſland of St. Lucia, they took a Sloop belonging to Barbadoes, which they plundered, and then burnt, forcing ſome of the Men to ſign their Articles, the others they beat and cut in a barbarous Manner, becauſe they refuſed to take on with the Crew, and then ſent them away in the Boat, who all got ſafe afterwards to Barbadoes.
The next was a Martinico Man, which they ſerved as bad as they had done the others, but did not burn their Ship. Some Days afterwards in running down to Leeward, they took one Captain Hawkins, coming from Jamaica, loaden chiefly with Logwood; they took out of her, Stores, Arms, Ammunition, and ſeveral other Things, as theythought
