But we cannot quit this Story without taking Notice of the Fate of this _George Rounsavil_. He work'd for some Time ashore for his living, but afterwards ingaged himself with Captain _Burghess_, a pardoned Pyrate, who had received a Commission to go a privateering. It happened they were driven upon the Rocks to the Southward of _Green Key_ Island, and there they were beat to pieces; this _Rounsavil_, with five others, upon the first Shock, stept into the Canoe, and were going off, when _Burghess_ standing upon the Poop of his Vessel, call'd out to him, saying, _Will you go away and leave me to perish in this Manner_. _Rounsavil_ begg'd his Companions to put back, and take him in; but they answered, that the rest would be as willing to save themselves as he, and of Consequence, so many would crowd into the Canoe as would sink it, wherefore they would not venture it; upon which he jump'd into the Water, and swam to the Vessel, and there perished with his Friend since he could not save him. _Of Captain_ TEACH. We shall add here a few Particulars (not mentioned in our first Volume) of the famous _Blackbeard_, relating to his taking the South _Carolina_ Ships, and insulting that Colony. This was at the Time that the Pyrates had obtained such an Acquisition of Strength, that they were in no Concern about preserving themselves from the Justice of Laws, but of advancing their Power, and maintaining their Sovereignty, not over the Seas only, but to stretch their Dominions to the Plantations themselves, and the Governors thereof, insomuch that when their Prisoners came aboard their Captors Ships, the Pyrates freely own'd their Acquaintance with them, and never endeavour'd to conceal their Names, or Habitations, as if they had been Inhabitants of a legal Commonwealth, and were resolved to treat with all the World on the Foot of a free State; and all judicial Acts went in the Name of _Teach_, under the Title of Commodore.