ons to come aſhore, and he would force her to proſtitute her ſelf to them all, one after another, before his Face.
In June 1718, he went to Sea, upon another Expedition, and ſteered his Courſe towards Bermudas; he met with two or three Engliſh Veſſels in his Way, but robbed them only of Proviſions, Stores and other Neceſſaries, for his preſent Expence; but near the Iſland aforementioned, he fell in with two French Ships, one of them was loaden with Sugar and Cocoa, and the other light, both bound to Martinico; the Ship that had no Lading he let go, and putting all the Men of the loaded Ship aboard her, he brought home the other with her Cargo to North-Carolina, where the Governor and the Pyrates ſhared the Plunder.
When Teach and his Prize arrived, he and four of his Crew went to his Excellency, and made Affidavit, that they found the French Ship at Sea, without a Soul on Board her; and then a Court was called, and the Ship condemned: The Governor had ſixty Hogſheads of Sugar for his Dividend, and one Mr. Knight, who was his Secretary, and Collector for the Province, twenty, and the reſt was ſhared among the other Pyrates.
The Buſineſs was not yet done, the Ship remained, and it was poſſible one or other might come into the River, that might be acquainted with her, and ſo diſcover the Roguery; but Teach thought of a Contrivance to prevent this, for, upon a Pretence that ſhe was leaky, and that ſhe might ſink, and ſo ſtop up the Mouth of the Inlet or Cove where ſhe lay, he obtained an Order from the Governor, to bring her out into the River, and ſet her on Fire, which was accordingly executed, and ſhe was burnt down to the Water’s Edge, her Bottom ſunk, and with it,
