From Barbados they went to Antigua, where they were received without injury, but rather with good treatment, and from there they divided, some going to Nevis in a bilander,[3] others, some 18 of them, to London in the ship whose captain was called Portin,[4] and eight others that were the principal ones fled in the ship called the _Comadressa Blanca_ (_White Gossip_),[5] Captain Charles Howard. Two of them, that were the principal chiefs, were called, [the one] Captain Sharp, and the other Gilbert Dike; and this deponent was left at Plymouth. [Footnote 3: A bilander was a small two-master, with the mainsail of lateen form.] [Footnote 4: The _Lisbon Merchant_, Captain Porteen. Ringrose, p. 212.] [Footnote 5: Or perhaps _Ermine_.] Other witnesses say, however, that they have heard that these pirates are now proceeding to buy a ship to return and make the same voyage or continue this piracy. THE _SALAMANDER_. _48. Petition of Paul Sharrett and Claes Pietersen. August 2, 1681._[1] [Footnote 1: Suffolk Court Files, no. 2031, paper 1. The story of the _Salamander_ is curiously interwoven with the early history of the Prussian navy, on which something has been said in note 1 to document 43. The facts may be made out by a comparison of documents 48 and 49 with data found in R. Schueck, _Brandenburg-Preussens Kolonial-Politik_ (Leipzig, 1889), I. 113-118, and in a monograph on "Brandenburg-Preussen auf der Westkueste von Afrika, 1681 bis 1721", in Heft 6 of the _Kriegsgeschichtliche Einzelschriften_ of the German General Staff (Berlin, 1885), pp. 102-105. In the First Brandenburg-Prussian fleet that ever sailed out of the Baltic (August, 1680), one of the six frigates was the _Churprintz_ (Kurprinz, Electoral Prince), 32 guns, Capt. Cornelius Reers, and there was a fire-ship, the _Salamander_, 2 guns, Capt. Marsilius (or Marcellus) Cock; the captains were probably all Dutch. The chief exploit of the squadron was to capture, in time of peace, a ship of the Spanish royal navy, which thus became the first of the elector's ships actually owned by him. Then Reers and a squadron of four frigates and the _Salamander_ sailed to the West Indies, and spent the winter of 1680-1681 in cruising against Spanish shipping, though with little success. If Samuel Button's story is true (document 48), it would seem that the original _Salamander_ must have been lost, and the _William and Anne_ substituted in its place and renamed. The squadron got back to Prussia in May, 1681.] To the Honnorable Simon Bradstreet Esq. Governor, Thomas Danforth Esqr Dept. Governor, and the Rest of the Honnorable Assistants to sitt in Boston on the 4th of this Instant August 1681 as A Court of Admiraltie or Assistants