Afterwards he put to sea, but could not agree with the men what course to take; for the Major being no sailor, was obliged to submit to many things his men imposed upon him, when falling in with _Edward Teach_, alias _Blackbeard_, who was a good sailor, but a hardened villain, _Bonnet's_ Crew joined with him, and put _Bonnet_ aboard _Blackbeard's_ Ship. But _Blackbeard_ losing his Ship at _Topsail_ Inlet, surrendered to the King's Proclamation; when _Bonnet_ re-assumed the command of his own Sloop, and sailed directly for _Bath_ Town in _North-Carolina_, where he also surrenders himself, and receives a certificate. There getting a clearance for his Sloop, he pretended to sail for the Island of _St. Thomas_, to get the Emperor's Commission to go a-Privateering upon the _Spaniards_. But returning to _Topsail_ Inlet, he found that _Blackbeard_ and his gang were gone, with their effects; and that they had set on shore, on a small sandy island about a league from the continent, seventeen men, without any provisions, or vessel to escape. There they had been two nights and one day without any sustenance, when, to their inexpressible joy, they saw Major _Bonnet_, who had been informed of their being there by two of _Blackbeard's_ crew, who had escaped to avoid his cruelty. Then he steered his course towards _Virginia_, where meeting with a Pink having Provisions on board, and they being in want, he took out of her ten barrels of pork, and five hundredweight of bread, and gave her, in exchange, ten casks of Rice, and an old cable. Two days after they took a Sloop of sixty tons, from which they took two hogsheads of rum, and two of molasses, and then put in her eight men, to take care of the Prize; but they not liking her new acquaintance took the first opportunity to get off with her.