other place, and where I safely arrived
after a pleasant passage of four days.

The most remarkable and unexpected circumstance of my extraordinary
adventures, I have yet, dear brother, to relate. Soon after my
arrival at Jamaica, the Authority having been made acquainted with
the circumstance of my recent capture by the Pirates, and the
extraordinary circumstance which produced my liberation, requested
that I might be conducted to the Prison, to see if I could among a
number of Pirates recently committed, recognize any of those by whom
I had been captured. I was accordingly attended by two or three
gentlemen, and two young ladies (who had politely offered to
accompany me) to the prison apartment, on entering which, I not only
instantly recognized among a number therein confined, the identical
savage monster of whom I have had so much occasion to speak (the
Pirates' Chief) but the most of those who had composed his gang, and
who were captured with him!

The sudden and unexpected introduction into their apartment of one,
whom they had probably in their minds numbered with the victims of
their wanton barbarity, produced unquestionably on their minds not
an inconsiderable degree of horror as well as surprise! and,
considering their condemnation now certain, they no doubt heaped
curses upon their more fortunate companions, for sparing the life
and setting at liberty one whom an all-wise Providence had conducted
to and placed in a situation to bear witness to their unprecedented
barbarity.

Government having through me obtained the necessary proof of the
guilt of these merciless wretches, after a fair and impartial trial
they were all condemned to suffer the punishment due to their
crimes, and seven ordered for immediate execution, one of whom was
the barbarian their chief. After the conviction and condemnation of
this wretch, in hopes of eluding the course of justice, he made (as
I was informed) an attempt upon his own life, by inflicting upon
himself deep wounds with a knife which he had concealed for that
purpose; but in this he was disappointed, the wounds not proving so
fatal as he probably anticipated.

I never saw this hardened villain or any of his equally criminal
companions after their condemnation, although strongly urged to
witness their execution, and am therefor