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The PREFACE.

that there is not a Fact or Circumſtance in the whole Book, but he is able to prove by credible Witneſſes.

There have been ſome other Pyrates, beſides thoſe whoſe Hiſtory are here related, ſuch as are hereafter named, and their Adventures are as extravagant and full of Miſchief, as thoſe who are the Subject of this Book.——The Author has already begun to digest them into Method, and as ſoon, as he receives ſome Materials to make them compleat, (which he ſhortly expects from the Weſt-Indies) If the Publick gives him Encouragement he intends to venture upon a ſecond Volume.

A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time Fleuron T071965-14

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