any Repulſe? But his Boatſwain, Philips, took upon him to be the Mouth of the People, and put an End to the Diſpute; he ſaid plainly, he would not, laid down his Arms in the King’s Name, as he was pleaſed to term it, and called out to the Boat for Quarters, ſo that the reſt, by his Example, were miſlead to the loſing of the Ship.
When they came on Board, they brought her under Sail, by an expeditious Method, of cutting the Cable; Walden, one of the Pyrates, telling the Maſter, this yo hope of heaving up the Anchor was a needleſs trouble, when they deſigned to burn the Ship. They brought her under Commadore Roberts’s Stern, and not only rifled her of what Sails, Cordage, &c. they wanted for themſelves, but wantonly throw’d the Goods of the Company overboard, like Spend-thrifts, that neither expected or deſigned any Account.
On the ſame Day alſo, they took the Fluſhing, a Dutch Ship, robbed her of Maſts, Yards and Stores, and then cut down her Fore-Maſt; but what ſat as heavily as any thing with the Skipper, was, their taking ſome fine Sauſages he had on Board, of his Wife’s making, and ſtringing them in a ludicrous Manner, round their Necks, till they had ſufficiently ſhew’d their Contempt of them, and then threw them into the Sea. Others chopp’d the Heads of his Fowls off, to be dreſſed for their Supper, and courteouſly invited the Landlord, provided he would find Liquor. It was a melancholly Requeſt to the Man, but it muſt be comply’d with, and he was obliged, as they grew drunk, to ſit quietly, and hear them ſing French and Spaniſh Songs out of his Dutch Prayer-Books, with other Prophaneſs, that he (tho’ a Dutch Man) ſtood amazed at.
In chaſing too near in, they alarmed the Coaſt, and Expreſſes were ſent to the Engliſh and Dutch
