bound to Martinico, which by Hornigold’s Conſent, Teach went aboard of as Captain, and took a Cruize in her; Hornigold returned with his Sloop to Providence, where, at the Arrival of Captain Rogers, the Governor, he ſurrendered to Mercy, purſuant to the King’s Proclamation.
Aboard of this Guiney Man Teach mounted no Guns, and named her the Queen Ann’s Revenge; and cruiſing near the Iſland of St. Vincent, took a large Ship, called the Great Allen, Chriſtopher Taylor Commander; the Pyrates plundered her of what they though fit, put all the Men aſhore upon the Iſland above mentioned, and then ſet Fire to the Ship.
A few Days after, Teach fell in with the Scarborogh Man of War, of 30 Guns, who engaged him for ſome Hours; but ſhe finding the Pyrate well mann’d, and having tried her ſtrength, gave over the Engagement, and returned to Barbadoes, the Place of her Station; and Teach ſailed towards the Spaniſh America.
In his Way he met with a Pyrate Sloop of ten Guns, commanded by one Major Bonnet, lately a Gentleman of good Reputation and Eſtate in the Iſland of Barbadoes, whom he joyned; but in a few Days after, Teach, finding that Bonnet knew nothing of a maritime Life, with the Conſent of his own Men, put in another Captain, one Richards, to Command Bonnet’s Sloop, and took the Major on aboard his own Ship, telling him, that as he had not been uſed to the Fatigues and Care of ſuch a Poſt, it would be better for him to decline it, and live eaſy and at his Pleaſure, in ſuch a Ship as his, where he ſhould not be obliged to perform Duty, but follow his own Inclinations
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At Turniff ten Leagues ſhort of the Bay of Honduras, the Pyrates took in freſh Water; and while they were at an Anchor there, they ſaw a Sloop coming in, whereupon, Richards in the Sloop called the Revenge, ſlipped his Cable, and run out to meet
