wild, made him altogether ſuch a Figure, that Imagination cannot form an Idea of a Fury, from Hell, to look more frightful.
If he had the look of a Fury, his Humours and Paſſions were ſuitable to it; we ſhall relate two or three more of his Extravagancies, which we omitted in the Body of his Hiſtory, by which it will appear, to what a Pitch of Wickedneſs, human Nature may arrive, if it’s Paſſions are not checked.
In the Commonwealth of Pyrates, he who goes the greateſt Length of Wickedneſs, is looked upon with a kind of Envy amongſt them, as a Perſon of a more extraordinary Gallantry, and is thereby entitled to be diſtinguiſhed by ſome Poſt, and if ſuch a one has but Courage, he muſt certainly be a great Man. The Hero of whom we are writing, was thoroughly accompliſhed this Way, and ſome of his Frolicks of Wickedneſs, were ſo extravagant, as if he aimed at making his Men believe he was a Devil incarnate; for being one Day at Sea, and a little fluſhed with drink:Come,
ſays he, let us make a Hell of our own, and try how long we can bear it
; accordingly he, with two or three others, went down into the Hold, and cloſing up all the Hatches, filled ſeveral Pots full of Brimſtone, and other combuſtible Matter, and ſet it on Fire, and ſo continued till they were almoſt ſuffocated, when ſome of the Men cried out for Air; at length he opened the Hatches, not a little pleaſed that he held out the longeſt.
The Night before he was killed, he ſet up and drank till the Morning, with ſome of his own Men, and the Maſter of a Merchant-Man, and having had Intelligence of the two Sloops coming to attack him, as has been before obſerved; one of his Men aſked him, in Caſe any thing ſhould happen to him in the Engagement with the Sloops,
