When they had done thus much, they cut down the Main-Mast, and towing the Vessel into deep Water, sunk her, having first put _David Soward_ into a Boat to shift for himself; he made Shift to get ashore, and after some Time, having found out _Turnley_, he told him, that _Rackam_ and _Mary Stead_ were determined, if they could have found him, to have whipp'd him to Death, as he heard them vow with many bitter Oaths and Imprecations; for whipping was the Punishment the Governor had threatened her with by his Information. From thence they stretch'd over to the _Bury Islands_, plundering all the Sloops they met, and strengthening their Company with several additional Hands, and so went on till they were taken and executed at _Port Royal_, as has been told in the first Volume. About this Time, the Governor, in Conjunction with some Factors then residing at _Providence_, thought fit to freight some Vessels for a trading Voyage; accordingly the _Batchelor_'s _Adventure_, a Schooner, Captain _Henry White_, Commander; the _Lancaster Sloop_, Captain _William Greenway_, Commander; the _May Sloop_, Captain _John Augur_, Commander, of which last _David Soward_ was Owner, (it having been given him by some Pyrates his former Associates) in which he also sail'd this Voyage, were fitted out with a Cargo of Goods and Merchandizes, bound for _Port Prince_ on the Island of _Cuba_. The Governor thought it adviseable, for the Benefit of the Inhabitants of _Providence_, to settle a Correspondence with some Merchants at _Port Prince_, first, in order to procure fresh Provisions, there being scarce any upon the Island at the Governor's first Arrival; and there being at _Port Prince_ great Plenty of Cows and Hogs, he proposed to get a sufficient Number of each, to stock the Island for Breed, that the People for the future might have fresh Provision of their own. They set Sail on _Sunday_ the fifth of _October_, 1718; the next Day they arrived at an Island known by the Name of _Green Key_, lying South, South-East from _Providence_, in the Degree of 23 and 40 North Latitude, being distance about twenty five Leagues; they cast Anchor, in order to wait for Morning to carry them thro' some Rocks and Shoals which lay in their Way, and some went ashore to try to kill something for Supper, before it should be dark; they expected to meet some wild Hogs, for, some Time before, one _Joseph Bay_ and one _Sims_, put two Sows and a Boar into the said Island; for they living at that Time at _Providence_, and being continually visited by Pyrates, were always plundered of all their fresh Provisions; wherefore, they thought of settling a Breed upon _Green Key_, that they might have Recourse to in Time of Necessity.