ſide, which was returned by Captain Edwards very bravely, and the Engagement held for an Hour; but Captain Edwards, finding the Pyrate too ſtrong for him, and fearing the Conſequence of too obſtinate a Reſiſtance againſt thoſe lawleſs Fellows, ordered his Enſign to be ſtruck. The Pyrates Boat came aboard, and not only rifled the Ship, but whipp’d, beat, and cut the Men in a cruel Manner, turned them aboard their own Ship, and then ſet Fire to their’s.
In cruiſing about the Bay, they met and took ſeveral other Veſſels without any Reſiſtance, viz. two Brigantines of Boſton in New-England, one of which they burnt, and ſunk the other; a Sloop belonging to Connecticut, Captain Airs, which they alſo burnt; a Sloop of Jamaica, Captain Hamilton, they took for their own Uſe; a Sloop of Virginia they unladed, and was ſo generous as to give her back to the Maſter that own’d her. They took a Sloop of 100 Ton, belonging to Rhode Iſland, which they were pleaſed to keep, and mount with eight Carriage, and ten Swivel Guns.
With this little Fleet, viz. Admiral Lowther, in the Happy Delivery; Captain Low, in the Rhode Iſland Sloop; Captain Harris, (who was ſecond Mate in the Greyhound when taken,) in Hamilton’s Sloop, and the little Sloop formerly mentioned, ſerving as a Tender; I ſay, with this Fleet the Pyrates left the Bay, and came to Port Mayo in the Gulph of Matique, and there made Preparations to careen; they carried aſhore all their Sails, and made Tents by the Water-Side, wherein they laid their Plunder, Stores, &c. and fell to work; and at the Time that the Ships were upon the Heel, and the good Folks employ’d in heaving down, ſcrubing, tallowing, and ſo forth; of a ſudden came down a conſiderable Body of the Natives, and attack’d the Py-
