I come now to relate, How Mr. _Simon Jones_, my first Mate, and ten of my Men entred with the Pirates. The Morning after we were taken, he came to me, and said, “His Circumstances were bad at home: Moreover, he had a Wife whom he could not love; and for these Reasons he had entred with the Pirates, and signed their Articles.” I was greatly surprized at this Declaration, and told him, “I was very sorry to hear it, for I believ’d he would repent when too late; and as he had taken this Resolution rashly, without communicating it to me, all I could say now would be to no Purpose; neither would it be proper for me, for the future, to have any Discourse with him in private.” I saw this poor Man afterwards despised by his Brethren in Iniquity; and have since been informed, he died a few Months after they left the River _Sieraleon_. However, I must do him the Justice to own, He never shewed any Disrespect to me; and the ten People he persuaded to enter with him, remained very civil to me, and of their own accord, always manned the side for me, whenever I went on board the Ship they belonged to. Several of these unhappy People soon after repented, and desired me to intercede for them, that they might be cleared again; for they durst not themselves mention it to the Quarter-master, it being death by their Articles: But it was too nice a matter for me to deal in; and therefore I refused them. Some days after this, one of these poor Men, whose name was _Thomas Wilder_, discovered things to me, of which I only had a suspicion before. After cursing Mr. _Jones_ for persuading him to enter with the Pirates, he said to me, “That several times in the Night-watch, before we came to _Sieraleon_, he had heard him say, _That he hoped we should meet with Pirates when we came to that River_; which he then thought to be spoken only in jest; but now he found it too true.” As I seemed not to believe this, he called another of our People, who confirmed what he had told me. “Then I asked them the Reason why the Chest of Arms was put out of the place where it usually stood in the Steerage; and where it was hid at the time we were taken?” They answered, “I might remember, that the Morning we made Land, I ordered the Steerage to be clean’d; to do which all the Chests there were carried between Decks; and after the Steerage was clean’d, all the Chests were brought back again in their places, except the Chest of Arms, which was left behind by the Mate’s Order: That when I called to the People in the Steerage to fire on the Pirate-boat, supposing Mr. _Jones_ had delivered them Arms according to my Order, many of the Men would have broken the Chest open, but he prevented them, by declaring, _This was an opportunity he had wished for; and that if they fired a Musquet, they would be all cut to pieces_.” And they further assured me, that to induce them to enter with the Pirates, he had declared to them, _That I had promised him to enter my self_.