Two Days after this, they met one of the Ships, that came out in Company with Green, and hailing them, asked, How Captain Green did. They answered, Very well! At your Service! But upon consulting, whether they had best attack that Ship, they left her, in Consideration, That they had not Hands enough to Man her. So, they bore away for North-Carolina; Where, off Cape Hatteras Bar, on June 3. there lay a Sloop at Anchor, whereof the Commander was one whose Name is Fulker. Some of the Sloop's Hands went aboard Fly, who was now become the Captain of the Snow, supposing them to want a Pilot. Fly commanded Fulker aboard, and informed him, They were Gentlemen of Fortune; and let him know, that they must have the Sloop, if it sailed better than the Snow. The contrary Winds rendering the Sloop unable to be brought off, our New Captain fell into a great Passion, and swore he would burn her, and bringing Fulker to the Gears, (who it seems, unadvisedly provoked them) inflicted a severe Scourging upon him. The Boats Crew, could not bring the Sloop any further than the Bar, but there she bilged and sank: and the Pirates endeavoured then to set ⟨p. 3⟩her on Fire, but could not make the Fire to take. Fulker and his Men, and his Passengers, were detained Prisoners by Fly; But on June 5. they sailed from thence; and on the Day following they saw a Ship commanded by one whose Name is Gale, bound from Barbados to Virginia. They could not come up with Gale till the next Morning; when they hoisted their Black Flag, and fired several Guns at the Ship; and there being little Wind▪ Gale struck; and Fly made the Men his Prisoners; but robbed the Ship only of several Sails, and some Clothes and small Arms; and after a Captivity of Two Days released them; at the same time giving Fulker, and one of his Passengers, and a Servant, and Green's Doctor, their Liberty. However they forcibly detained one William Atkinson, who had been Commander of a Brigantine, but left her for a Passage home in Fulker, bound then for Boston: And who had often declared, That if the Pirates ever took him, he would humour them, till he could see his first Opportunity to rise upon them. They wanted him to be their Pilot, for the Coast of New-England; which they told him▪ he should be, or, They would blow his Brains out. It seems, they forgot, how bad a Coast New-England has been for Pirates to come upon!
Two Days after this, they met one of the Ships, that came out in Company with Green, and hailing them, ask'd, How Captain Green did. They answered, Very well! At your Service! But upon consulting, whether they had best attack that Ship, they left her, in Consideration, That they had not Hands enough to Man her. So, they bore away for North-Carolina; Where, off Cape Hattaras Bar, on June 3. there lay a Sloop at Anchor, whereof the Commander was one whose Name is Fulker. Some of the Sloop's Hands went aboard Fly, who was now become the Captain of the Snoe, supposing them to want a Pilot. Fly commanded Fulker aboard, and informed him, They were Gentlemen of Fortune; and let him know, that they must have the Sloop, if it sailed better than the Snoe. The contrary Winds rendring the Sloop unable to be brought off, our New Captain fell into a great Passion, and swore he would burn her, and bringing Fulker to the Geers, (who it seems, unadvisedly provoked them) inflicted a severe Scourging upon him. The Boats Crue, could not bring the Sloop any further than the Bar, but there she bilg'd and sank: and the Pirates endeavoured then to set ⟨p. 3⟩her on Fire, but could not make the Fire to take. Fulker and his Men, and his Passengers, were detained Prisoners by Fly; But on June 5. they sailed from thence; and on the Day following they saw a Ship commanded by one whose Name is Gale, bound from Barbados to Virginia. They could not come up with Gale till the next Morning; when they hoisted their Black Flag, and fired several Guns at the Ship; and there being little Wind▪ Gale struck; and Fly made the Men his Prisoners; but robbed the Ship only of several Sails, and some Cloaths and small Arms; and after a Captivity of Two Days released them; at the same time giving Fulker, and one of his Passengers, and a Servant, and Green's Doctor, their Liberty. However they forceably detained one William Atkinson, who had been Commander of a Brigantine, but left her for a Passage home in Fulker, bound then for Boston: And who had often declared, That if the Pirates ever took him, he would humour them, till he could see his first Opportunity to rise upon them. They wanted him to be their Pilot, for the Coast of New-England; which they told him▪ he should be, or, They would blow his Brains out. It seems, they forgot, how bad a Coast New-England has been for Pirates to come upon!
