tion and estate in the
island of Barbadoes, whom he joined; but in a few days after, Teach,
finding that Bonnet knew nothing of a maritime life, with the consent of
his own men, put in another captain, one Richards, to command Bonnet's
sloop, and took the Major on board his own ship, telling him, that as he
had not been used to the fatigues and care of such a post, it would be
better for him to decline it and live easy, at his pleasure, in such a
ship as his, where he would not be obliged to perform the necessary
duties of a sea-voyage.

At Turniff, ten leagues short of the Bay of Honduras, the pirates took
in fresh water, and while they were at anchor there, they saw a sloop
coming in, whereupon Richards, in the sloop called the _Revenge_,
slipped his cable and run out to meet her; who, upon seeing the black
flag hoisted, struck his sail and came to under the stern of Teach, the
commodore. She was called the _Adventure_, from Jamaica, David Harriot,
master. They took him and his men aboard the great ship, and sent a
number of other hands with Israel Hands, master of Teach's ship, to man
the sloop for the piratical account.

The 9th of April they weighed from Turniff, having lain there about a
week, and sailed to the bay, where they found a ship and four sloops;
three of the latter belonged to Jonathan Bernard, of Jamaica, and the
other to Captain James. The ship was of Boston, called the _Protestant
Caesar_, Captain Wyar, commander. Teach hoisted his black colors and
fired a gun, upon which Captain Wyar and all his men left their ship and
got ashore in their boat. Teach's quartermaster and eight of his crew
took possession of Wyar's ship, and Richards secured all the sloops, one
of which they burnt out of spite to the owner. The _Protestant Caesar_
they also burnt, after they had plundered her, because she belonged to
Boston, where some men had been hanged for piracy, and the three sloops
belonging to Bernard they let go.

From hence the rovers sailed to Turkill, and then to the Grand Caimanes,
a small island about thirty leagues to the westward of Jamaica, where
they took a small turtler, and so to the Havana, and from thence to the
Bahama Wrecks; and from the Bahama Wrecks they sailed to Carolina,
taking a brigantine and two sloops in their way, where they lay off the
bar of Charles Town for five or six days. They took here a ship as she
was coming out, bound for London, commanded by Robert Clark, with some
passen