The History of the Pyrates. Vol. II.: Containing the lives of Captain Misson, Captain Bowen, Captain Kidd, Captain Tew, Captain Halsey, Captain White, Captain Condent, Captain Bellamy, Captain Fly, Captain Howard, Captain Lewis, Captain Cornelius, Captain Williams, Captain Burgess, Captain North, and their several crewsDefoe, Daniel
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The History of the Pyrates. Vol. II.: Containing the lives of Captain Misson, Captain Bowen, Captain Kidd, Captain Tew, Captain Halsey, Captain White, Captain Condent, Captain Bellamy, Captain Fly, Captain Howard, Captain Lewis, Captain Cornelius, Captain Williams, Captain Burgess, Captain North, and their several crews
Defoe, Daniel
Pirates -- Early works to 1800
As soon as this was done, they sent some Hands on Board to seize his
Sloop, or rather to acquaint his Men with what had been done, for they
expected to meet with no Resistance, many of them being in the Plot, and
the rest, they supposed, not very averse to it: After which, they
decoy'd Captain _White_ on Board, by the same Stratagem they used to
_Greenway_, and likewise sent on Board his Sloop, and found his Men, one
and all, well disposed for the Design; and what was most remarkable was,
that Captain _Augur_ seeing how Things were going, joined with them,
shewing himself as well inclined for pyrating as the worst of them.
Thus they made themselves Masters of the three Vessels with very little
Trouble. The next Thing to be done was to resolve how to dispose of
those who were not of their Party; some were for killing _John Turnley_,
but the Majority carried it for marrooning, that he might be starved,
and die like a Dog, as they called it; their great Spleen to him was,
because he was the Person who had piloted the Governor into
_Providence_.
Accordingly _Turnley_, with _John Carr_, _Thomas Rich_, and some others,
were stripp'd naked, and tumbled over the Vessel's Side into a Boat
which lay alongside; the Oars were all taken out, and they left them
nothing to work themselves ashore with but an old Paddle, which, at
other Times serv'd to steer the Boat, and so they commanded them to be
gone.--However, they made shift to get safe ashore to the Island, which,
as we observed before, was quite uninhabited.
The next Morning _Dennis Macarty_, with several others, went on Shore,
and told them they must come on Board again, and they would give them
some Clothes to put on. They fancied the Pyrates began to repent of the
hard Usage they had given them, and were willing to return upon such an
Errand; but when they got on Board again, they found their Opinion of
the Pyrates good Nature was very ill grounded, for they began with
beating them, and did it as if it were in Sport, one having a
Boatswain's Pipe, the rest beating them till he piped _Belay_.
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