equal
bravery, till they likewise cried for quarter.

Here was an end of that courageous brute, who might have passed in the
world for a hero had he been employed in a good cause.

The lieutenant caused Black-beard's head to be severed from his body,
and hung up at the boltsprit end; then he sailed to Bath Town, to get
relief for his wounded men.

In rummaging the pirate's sloop, they found several letters and written
papers, which discovered the correspondence between Governor Eden, the
secretary and collector, and also some traders at New York, and
Black-beard. It is likely he had regard enough for his friends to have
destroyed these papers before action, in order to hinder them from
falling into such hands, where the discovery would be of no use either
to the interest or reputation of these fine gentlemen, if it had not
been his fixed resolution to have blown up together, when he found no
possibility of escaping.

When the lieutenant came to Bath Town, he made bold to seize from the
governor's storehouse the sixty hogsheads of sugar, and from honest Mr.
Knight, twenty; which it seems was their dividend of the plunder taken
in the French ship. The latter did not survive this shameful discovery,
for, being apprehensive that he might be called to an account for these
trifles, fell sick, it is thought, with the fright, and died in a few
days.

After the wounded men were pretty well recovered, the lieutenant sailed
back to the men-of-war in James River, in Virginia, with Black-beard's
head still hanging at the boltsprit end, and fifteen prisoners, thirteen
of whom were hanged, it appearing, upon trial, that one of them, viz.,
Samuel Odell, was taken out of the trading sloop but the night before
the engagement. This poor fellow was a little unlucky at his first
entering upon his new trade, there appearing no less than seventy wounds
upon him after the action; notwithstanding which he lived and was cured
of them all. The other person that escaped the gallows was one Israel
Hands, the master of Black-beard's sloop, and formerly captain of the
same, before the _Queen Ann's Revenge_ was lost in Topsail inlet.

The aforesaid Hands happened not to be in the fight, but was taken
afterwards ashore at Bath Town, having been sometime before disabled by
Black-beard, in one of his savage humors, after the following manner:
One night, drinking in his cabin with Hands, the pilot, and another man,
Black-beard, without any provoca