ciple (or the Sect’s) to fight, unleſs with Art and Colluſion; he managed theſe Weapons well till he arrived at the Capes, and afterwards four of the Pyrates went off in a Boat, which they had taken with them, for the more eaſily making their Eſcapes, and made up the Bay towards Maryland, but were forced back by a Storm into an obſcure Place of the Country, where meeting with good Entertainment among the Planters, they continued ſeveral Days without being diſcovered to be Pyrates. In the mean Time Captain Knot leaving four others on Board his Ship, (who intended to go to North-Carolina,) made what haſt he could to diſcover to Mr. Spotſwood the Governor, what ſort of Paſſengers he had been forced to bring with him, who by good Fortune got them ſeized; and Search being made after the others, who were revelling about the Country, they were alſo taken, and all try’d, convicted and hang’d, two Portugueſe Jews who were taken on the Coaſt of Braſil, and whom they brought with them to Virginia, being the principal Evidences. The latter had found Means to lodge Part of their Wealth with the Planters, who never brought it to Account: But Captain Knot ſurrendered up every Thing that belonged to them, that were taken aboard, even what they preſented to him, in lieu of ſuch Things as they had plundered him of in their Paſſage, and obliged his Men to do the like.
Some Days after the taking of the Virginia Man laſt mentioned, in cruiſing in the Latitude of Jamaica, Kennedy took a Sloop bound thither from Boſton, loaded with Bread and Flower; aboard of this Sloop went all the Hands who were for breaking the Gang, and left thoſe behind that had a Mind to purſue further Adventures. Among the former were Kennedy, their Captain, of whoſe Honour they had ſuch a diſpicable Notion, that they were
