id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chi.39693884 Defoe, Daniel A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time; with the remarkable actions and adventures of the two female pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny. To which is added a short abstract of the statute and civil law in relation to pyracy By Captain Charles Johnson c.1 v.1 1728 .txt text/plain 115502 7946 87 Ships of War ; when in the mean Time, they (the Pyrates) were almoſt all the leading Men in Rome, the Pyrates who were left, had Time to increaſe to a prodigijus Strength; for while the civil Wars Jaſted, Captain George Dew and Captain Thomas Tero, having received Commiſſions from the then Governor of Bermudas, to fail directly for the River Gambia in Africa ; there, with the Advice and Afliftance of the Agents of the Royal African Company manned: The Henry with 8 Guns and 70 Men, conimanded by Captain John Maſters, and the Sea The Buck, Sloop, Captain Sylveſter, of Gambia, taken the 27th of May, having 2 Guns and 2 Men The Pyrates detained ſome Officers and Men. belonging to Captain Mackra, and having repaired carried the Ship to Mozambique, whence the Governor ordered her for Goa. Here the Pyrates came, cleaned the Caſſiendra, a great Part of theſe Pyrate Ships Crews were Men ./cache/chi.39693884.pdf ./txt/chi.39693884.txt