Pyrates there, who upon the coming of the Men of War, all ſurrendered to the Pardon, except Charles Vane and his Crew, which happened after this Manner.
I have before deſcribed the Harbour to have two Inlets, by Means of a ſmall Iſland lying at the Mouth of it; at one of which, both the Men of War entered, and left the other open, ſo that Vane ſlip’d his Cable, ſet Fire to a large Prize they had there, and reſolutely put out, firing at the Man of War as he went off.
As ſoon as Captain Rogers had ſettled himſelf in his Government, he built a Fort for his Defence, and garriſoned it with the People he found upon the Iſland; the quondam Pyrates, to the Number of 400, he formed into Companies, appointed Officers of thoſe whom he moſt confided in, and then ſet about to ſettle a Trade with the Spaniards, in the Gulf of Mexico; in one of which Voyages, Captain Burgeſs abovementioned, died, and Captain Hornigold, another of the famous Pyrates, was caſt away upon Rocks, a great Way from Land, and periſhed, but five of his Men got into a Canoe and were ſaved.
Captain Rogers ſent out a Sloop to get Proviſions, and gave the Command to one John Augur, one of the Pyrates, who had accepted of the Act of Grace; in their Voyage they met with two Sloops, and John and his Comrades not yet forgetting their former Buſineſs, made Uſe of their old Freedom, and took out of them in Money and Goods, to the Value of about 500 l. after this they ſteered away for Hiſpaniola, not being ſatiſfy’d whether the Governor would admit them to carry on two Trades at once, and ſo thought to have bidden Farewel to the Bahama Iſlands; but as ill Luck would have it, they met with a violent Turnado, wherein they loſt their Maſt, and were drove back to one of
