they were obliged to remain here almoſt two Months, to refit and repair their Veſſel: They took in this River a ſmall Shallop, which they ripped up to mend the Sloop, and retarded the further Proſecution of their Voyage, as before mentioned, till the News came to Carolina, of a Pyrate Sloop’s being there to carreen with her Prizes.
Upon this Information, the Council of South-Carolina was alarmed, and apprehended they ſhould receive another Viſit from them ſpeedily; to prevent which, Colonel William Rhet, of the ſame Province, waited on the Governor, and generouſly offered himſelf to go with two Sloops to attack this Pyrate; which the Governor readily accepted, and accordingly gave the Colonel a Commiſſion and full Power, to fit ſuch Veſſels as he thought proper for the Deſign.
In a few Days two Sloops were equipped and manned: The Henry with 8 Guns and 70 Men, commanded by Captain John Maſters, and the Sea Nymph, with 8 Guns and 60 Men, commanded by Captain Fayrer Hall, both under the entire Direction and Command of the aforeſaid Colonel Rhet, who, on the 14th of September, went on Board the Henry, and, with the other Sloop, ſailed from Charles-Town to Swillivants Iſland, to put themſelves in order for the Cruize. Juſt then arrived a ſmall Ship from Antigoa, one Cock Maſter, with an Account, that in Sight of the Bar he was taken and plundered by one Charles Vane, a Pyrate, in a Brigantine of 12 Guns and 90 Men; and who had alſo taken two other Veſſels bound in there, one a ſmall Sloop, Captain Dill Maſter, from Barbadoes; the other a Brigantine, Captain Thompſon Maſter, from Guiney, with ninety odd Negroes, which they took out of the Veſſel, and put on Board another Sloop then under the Command of one Yeats, his Conſort, with 25 Men. This prov’d
