rage; he was not avaritious, and always averſe to the ill Uſage Priſoners received: He would have been contented with moderate Plunder, and leſs miſchievous Pranks, could his Companions have been brought to the ſame Temper, but he was generally over-rul’d, and as he was engaged in that abominable Society, he was obliged to be a Partner in all their vile Actions.
Captain England ſail’d to the Coaſt of Africa, after the Iſland of Providence was ſettled by the Engliſh Government, and the Pyrates ſurrendered to his Majeſty’s Proclamation; and took ſeveral Ships and Veſſels, particularly the Cadogan Snow belonging to Briſtol, at Sierraleone, one Skinner Maſter, who was inhumanly murthered by ſome of the Crew, that had lately been his own Men, and ſerved in the ſaid Veſſel. It ſeems ſome Quarrel had happened between them, ſo that Skinner thought fit to remove theſe Fellows on Board of a Man of War, and at the ſame Time refuſed them their Wages; not long after they found Means to deſert that Service, and ſhipping themſelves aboard a Sloop in the Weſt-Indies, was taken by a Pyrate, and brought to Providence, and ſailed upon the ſame Account along with Captain England.
Aſſoon as Skinner had ſtruck to the Pyrate, he was ordered to come on Board in his Boat, which he did, and the Perſon that he firſt caſt his Eye upon, proved to be his old Boatſwain, who ſtar’d him in the Face like his evil Genius, and accoſted him in this Manner.Ah, Captain Skinner! Is it you? The only Man I wiſhed to ſee; I am much in your Debt, and now I ſhall pay you all in your own Coin.
The poor Man trembled every Joint, when he found into what Company he had fallen, and dreaded the Event, as he had Reaſon enough ſo to do; for the Boatſwain immediately called to his Con-
