. The history of the buccaneers of America; containing detailed accounts of those bold and daring freebooters; chiefly along the Spanish main, in the great South sea, succeeding the civil wars in England . ip, and were designed to goin quest of me, cruising about St. Thomas, where they thoughtI should continue. As I left St. Thomas, I saw a ship at anchor. I sailed to-wards her, and gave her chase a long time; but I could notprevent her getting to land at the Isle of St. Omer, and stavingto pieces. In striving to take her, I lost a hundred and fiftypounds of gold dust, which this Dutch interlo
. The history of the buccaneers of America; containing detailed accounts of those bold and daring freebooters; chiefly along the Spanish main, in the great South sea, succeeding the civil wars in England . ip, and were designed to goin quest of me, cruising about St. Thomas, where they thoughtI should continue. As I left St. Thomas, I saw a ship at anchor. I sailed to-wards her, and gave her chase a long time; but I could notprevent her getting to land at the Isle of St. Omer, and stavingto pieces. In striving to take her, I lost a hundred and fiftypounds of gold dust, which this Dutch interloper had got intrading on this coast. This being over, I sailed for the coasts of Angola, which istwo hundred and fifty leagues on the other side of the I arrived on the 22d of September, and understood,when I came within three leagues of the port of Cabinda, thatthere were two English ships with negroes on board in thatplace. As I was to leeward of tfyat port, I bore out to sea, inhopes next day to have a south-west wind, that usually blowsfrom the seaward, to help to recover the port. When day ap-peared, I saw a ship under English colors bearing upon me,40 470 THE BUCCANEERS OF THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA. 471 whom I presently did not take to be a man-of-war. But sometime after, I discovered she carried no less than four and fiftyguns. I used all the art I could to amuse her; and for thatend I hung out Dutch colors, that I might also the more easilycome near her ; while she on her part was not backward toamuse me, and by the guns she fired from time to time, toassure me of her friendship, endeavored to come up with I perceived my enemys design, I took upon me to makea show of waiting for him, and sailed but very slowly, that Imight make him believe my ship was heavy laden, or that Iwas encumbered for want of sails and hands. We kept in thismanner from break of day till ten in the forenoon. He gave mea gun from time to time without ball, to assure me
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