with a flaming Sword in his Hand, intimating a Defyance of Death it ſelf.
The Swallow returned back into Cape Lopez Bay, and found the little Ranger, whom the Pyrates had deſerted in haſt, for the better Defence of the Ship: She had been plunder’d, according to what I could learn, of 2000 l. in Gold-Duſt, (the Shares of thoſe Pyrates who belonged to her;) and Captain Hill, in the Neptune, not unjuſtly ſuſpected, for he would not wait the Man of War’s returning into the Bay again, but ſail’d away immediately, making no Scruple afterwards to own the Seizure of other Goods out of her, and ſurrender’d, as a Confirmation of all, 50 Ounces at Barbadoes, for which, ſee the Article at the End of this Book.
All Perſons who after the 29th of Septem. 1690, &c.
To ſum up the whole, if it be conſidered, firſt, that the ſickly State of the Men of War, when they ſail’d from Princes, was the Miſfortune that hindered their being as far as Sierraleon, and conſequently out of the Track the Pyrates then took. That thoſe Pyrates, directly contrary to their Deſign, in the ſecond Expedition, ſhould get above Cape Corſo, and that nigh Axim, a Chace ſhould offer, that inevitably muſt diſcover them, and be ſoon communicated to the Men of War. That the ſatiating their evil and malicious Tempers at Whydah, in burning the Porcupine, and running off with the French Ship, had ſtrengthened the Swallow with 30 Men. That the Swallow ſhould miſs them in that Road, where probably ſhe had not, or at leaſt ſo effectually obtained her End. That they ſhould be ſo far infatuated at Cape Lopez, as to divide their Strength, which when collected, might have been ſo formidable. And laſtly, that the Conqueſt ſhould be without Bloodſhed: I ſay, conſidering all theſe Circumſtances, it ſhews that the Hand of Providence was concerned in their Deſtruction.
