The 9th of April, they weighed from _Turniff_, having lain there about a Week, and sailed to the Bay, where they found a Ship and four Sloops, three of the latter belonged to _Jonathan Bernard_, of _Jamaica_, and the other to Captain _James_; the Ship was of _Boston_, called the _Protestant Cæsar_, Captain _Wyar_ Commander. _Teach_ hoisted his Black Colours, and fired a Gun, upon which Captain _Wyar_ and all his Men, left their Ship, and got ashore in their Boat. _Teach_'s Quarter-Master, and eight of his Crew, took Possession of _Wyar_'s Ship, and _Richards_ secured all the Sloops, one of which they burnt out of spight to the Owner; the _Protestant Cæsar_ they also burnt, after they had plundered her, because she belonged to _Boston_, where some Men had been hanged for Pyracy; and the three Sloops belonging to _Bernard_ they let go. From hence the Rovers sailed to _Turkill_, and then to the _Grand Caimanes_, a small Island about thirty Leagues to the Westward of _Jamaica_, where they took a small Turtler, and so to the _Havana_, and from thence to the _Bahama_ Wrecks, and from the _Bahama_ Wrecks, they sailed to _Carolina_, taking a Brigantine and two Sloops in their Way, where they lay off the Bar of _Charles-Town_ for five or six Days. They took here a Ship as she was coming out, bound for London, commanded by _Robert Clark_, with some Passengers on Board for _England_; the next Day they took another Vessel coming out of _Charles-Town_, and also two Pinks coming into _Charles-Town_; likewise a Brigantine with 14 Negroes aboard; all which being done in the Face of the Town, struck a great Terror to the whole Province of _Carolina_, having just before been visited by _Vane_, another notorious Pyrate, that they abandoned themselves to Dispair, being in no Condition to resist their Force. They were eight Sail in the Harbour, ready for the Sea, but none dared to venture out, it being almost impossible to escape their Hands. The inward bound Vessels were under the same unhappy Dilemma, so that the Trade of this Place was totally interrupted: What made these Misfortunes heavier to them, was a long expensive War, the Colony had had with the Natives, which was but just ended when these Robbers infested them. _Teach_ detained all the Ships and Prisoners, and, being in want of Medicines, resolves to demand a Chest from the Government of the Province; accordingly _Richards_, the Captain of the _Revenge_ Sloop, with two or three more Pyrates, were sent up along with Mr. _Marks_, one of the Prisoners, whom they had taken in _Clark_'s Ship, and very insolently made their Demands, threatning, that if they did not send immediately the Chest of Medicines, and let the Pyrate-Ambassadors return, without offering any Violence to their Persons, they would murder all their Prisoners, send up their Heads to the Governor, and set the Ships they had taken on Fire.