done the French Man, but it was otherwiſe reſolved at laſt; for after they had cut her Cables, Rigging and Sails to Pieces, they left her to the Mercy of the Sea.
After theſe Depredations, they ſteered for the Iſland of Madera, where miſſing other Booty, they took up with a Fiſhing-Boat, with two old Men and a Boy in her, one of which they detained on Board, but ſent the other aſhore with a Flag of Truce, demanding a Boat of Water of the Governor, on Pain of taking away the old Man’s Life, whom they threatened to hang at the Yard-Arm, upon their refuſal; but the Thing being complied with, the old Man was honourably (as the Pyrates ſay) diſcharged, and all the three much handſomer cloathed than when they took them. From this Iſland they ſailed to the Canaries, but meeting with no Prey there, they continued their Courſe for the Cape de Verd Iſlands, and at Bonaviſta, took a Ship called the Liverpool Merchant, Captain Goulding, from whom they ſtole a great Quantity of Proviſions and dry Goods, 300 Gallons of Brandy, two Guns and Carriages, a Maſt, Yard and Hawſers, beſides ſix of his Men, and then would not let them Trade there, nor at St. Nicholas, but obliged Captain Goulding to go with his Ship, to the Iſle of May.
The Pyrate alſo took among theſe Iſlands, a Ship belonging to Liverpool, Scot Commander; two Portugueſe Sloops bound for Braſil; a ſmall Engliſh Sloop trading there, James Peaſe Maſter, bound to Sancta Crux, and three Sloops from St. Thomas bound to Curaſo, the Maſters Names were Lilly, Staples and Simpkins, all which they plundered, and then let go about their Buſineſs, except one Sloop which they fitted up for the following Purpoſe.
Low had heard by one of the above mentioned Ships, that two ſmall Gallies were expected every
