He now, with three Sail, steer'd for the Island of _Ferdinando_, where he hove down and clean'd the _Flying Dragon_; having careen'd, he put 11 _Dutchmen_ on board Captain _Spelt_, to make Amends for the Hands he had forced from him, and sent him away, making him a Present of the Goods he took from the _Portuguese_ Ship. When he sail'd himself, he ordered the _Dutch_ to stay at _Ferdinando_ 24 Hours after his Departure; threatning, if he did not comply, to sink his Ship; if he fell a second Time into his Hands, and to put all the Company to the Sword. He then stood for the Coast of _Brazil_, where he met a _Portuguese_ Man of War of 70 Guns, which he came up with; the _Portuguese_ hal'd him, and he answer'd, _from London_, bound for _Buenos Ayres_: The _Portuguese_ mann'd his Shrouds and chear'd him, when _Condent_ fired a Broadside and a Volley of small Arms, which began a smart Engagement for the Space of 3 Glasses; but _Condent_ finding himself over-match'd, made the best of his Way, and, being the better Sailor, got off. Few Days after he took a Vessel of the same Nation, who gave an Account, that he had killed above 40 Men in the _Guarda del Costa_, beside a Number wounded; he kept along the Coast to the Southward, and took a _French_ Ship of 18 Guns, laden with Wine and Brandy, bound for the _South-Sea_, which he carried with him into the River of _Plate_. He sent some of his Men ashore to kill some wild Cattle, but they were taken by the Crew of a _Spanish_ Man of War; on their Examination before the Captain, they said they were two _Guiney_ Ships, with Slaves belonging to the _South-Sea_ Company, and on this Story were allowed to return to their Boats: Here five of his forced Men ran away with his Canoe, he plundered the _French_ Ship, cut her adrift, and she was stranded. He proceeded along the _Brazil_ Coast, and hearing a Pyrate Ship was lost upon it, and the Pyrates imprisoned, he used all the _Portuguese_, who fell into his Hands, who were many, very barbarously, cutting off their Ears and Noses; and as his Master was a Papist, when they took a Priest, they made him say Mass at the Main-mast, and would afterwards get on his Back and ride him about the Decks, or else load and drive him like a Beast. He from this went to the _Guiney_ Coast, and took Captain _Hill_ in the _Indian Queen_.