Gee Commander, which happened to lye at Seſtos, to get Water and Neceſſaries for the Company. A great many of Captain Gee’s Men were aſhore, when Robert’s bore down, and ſo the Ship conſequently ſurpriz’d into his Hands, tho’ had they been all on Board, it was not likely the Caſe would have been otherwiſe, the Sailors, moſt of them, voluntarily joyning the Pyrates, and encouraging the ſame Diſpoſition in the Soldiers, (who were going Paſſengers with them to Cape-Corſo-Caſtle) whoſe Ears being conſtantly tickled with the Feats and Gallantry of thoſe Fellows, made them fancy, that to go, was only being bound on a Voyage of Knight Errantry (to relieve the Diſtreſs’d, and gather up Fame) and ſo they likewiſe offer’d themſelves; but here the Pyrates were at a Stand, they entertain’d ſo contemptible a Notion of Landmen, that they put ’em off with Refuſals for ſome time, till at length, being weary’d with Solicitations, and pittying a Parcel of ſtout Fellows, which they ſaid, were going to ſtarve upon a little Canky and Plantane, they accepted of them, and allow’d them ¼ Share, as it was then term’d out of Charity.
There was a Clergyman on Board the Onſlow, ſent from England, to be Chaplain of Cape-Corſo-Caſtle, ſome of the Pyrates were for keeping him, alledging merrily, that their Ship wanted a Chaplain; accordingly they offered him a Share, to take on with them, promiſing, he ſhould do nothing for his Money, but make Punch, and ſay Prayers; yet, however brutiſh they might be in other Things, they bore ſo great a Reſpect to his Order, that they reſolved not to force him againſt his Inclinations; and the Parſon having no Reliſh for this ſort of Life, excuſed himſelf from accepting the Honour they deſigned him; they were ſatiſfied, and generous enough to deliver him back every
