had got drunk over their Tipple, and were gone together by the Ears: They continued scudding all that Night under their bare Poles, the next Morning the Main-Mast being sprung in the Step, they were forced to cut it away, and, at the same time, the Mizzen came by the Board. These Misfortunes made the Ship ring with Blasphemy, which was encreased, when, by trying the Pumps, they found the Ship made a great Deal of Water; tho' by continually plying them, it kept it from gaining upon them: The Sloop as well as the Ship, was left to the Mercy of the Winds, tho' the former, not having a Tant-Mast, did not lose it. The Wind shifting round the Compass, made so outrageous and short a Sea, that they had little Hopes of Safety; it broke upon the Poop, drove in the Taveril, and wash'd the two Men away from the Wheel, who were saved in the Netting. The Wind after four Days and three Nights abated of its Fury, and fixed in the North, North East Point, hourly decreasing, and the Weather clearing up, so that they spoke to the Sloop, and resolv'd for the Coast of _Carolina_; they continued this Course but a Day and a Night, when the Wind coming about to the Southward, they changed their Resolution to that of going to _Rhode Island_. All this while the _Whidaw_'s Leak continued, and it was as much as the Lee-Pump could do to keep the Water from gaining, tho' it was kept continually going. Jury-Masts were set up, and the Carpenter finding the Leak to be in the Bows, occasioned by the Oakam spewing out of a Seam, the Crew became very jovial again; the Sloop received no other Damage than the Loss of the Main-Sail, which the first Flurry tore away from the Boom. In their Cruise off _Rhode Island_, the Beginning of _April_, they took a Sloop commanded by Capt. _Beer_, belonging to _Boston_, in the Lat. of _South Carolina_, 40 Leagues from Land; they put the said Captain on Board the _Whidaw_ Commodore, while they rifled and plundered his Vessel, which _Williams_ and _Bellamy_ proposed returning to him, but the Crews being averse to it, they sunk her, and put the Captain ashore upon _Block Island_.