of
liquor on board, so kept the company hot, damned hot, then all things
went well again.

Thus it was these wretches passed their lives, with very little pleasure
or satisfaction in the possession of what they violently take away from
others, and sure to pay for it at last by an ignominious death.

The names of the pirates killed in the engagement, are as follows:--

Edward Teach, commander; Philip Morton, gunner; Garret Gibbens,
boatswain; Owen Roberts, carpenter; Thomas Miller, quartermaster; John
Husk, Joseph Curtice, Joseph Brooks (1), Nath. Jackson. All the rest,
except the two last, were wounded, and afterwards hanged in
Virginia:--John Carnes, Joseph Brooks (2), James Blake, John Gills,
Thomas Gates, James White, Richard Stiles, Caesar, Joseph Philips, James
Robbins, John Martin, Edward Salter, Stephen Daniel, Richard Greensail,
Israel Hands, pardoned, Samuel Odel, acquitted.

There were in the pirate sloops, and ashore in a tent near where the
sloops lay, twenty-five hogsheads of sugar, eleven tierces, and one
hundred and forty-five bags of cocoa, a barrel of indigo, and a bale of
cotton; which, with what was taken from the governor and secretary, and
the sale of the sloop, came to L2,500, besides the rewards paid by the
governor of Virginia, pursuant to his proclamation; all which was
divided among the companies of the two ships, _Lime_ and _Pearl_, that
lay in James River; the brave fellows that took them coming in for no
more than their dividend amongst the rest, and were paid it not till
four years afterwards.

II

CAPTAIN WILLIAM KID

We are now going to give an account of one whose name is better known in
England than most of those whose histories we have already related; the
person we mean is Captain Kid, whose public trial and execution here
rendered him the subject of all conversation, so that his actions have
been chanted about in ballads; however, it is now a considerable time
since these things passed, and though the people knew in general that
Captain Kid was hanged, and that his crime was piracy, yet there were
scarce any, even at that time, who were acquainted with his life or
actions, or could account for his turning pirate.

In the beginning of King William's war, Captain Kid commanded a
privateer in the West Indies, and by several adventurous actions
acquired the reputation of a brave man, as well as an experienced
seaman. About this time the pirates were very troublesome in those