ſignifying a Barbadian’s and a Martinican’s Head, as may be ſeen in the Plate of Captain Roberts.
At Dominico, the next Iſland they touched at, they took a Dutch Interloper of 22 Guns and 75 Men, and a Brigantine belonging to Rhode-Iſland, one Norton Maſter. The former made ſome Defence, till ſome of his Men being killed, the reſt were diſcouraged and ſtruck their Colours. With theſe two Prizes they went down to Guadalupe, and brought out a Sloop, and a French Fly-Boat laden with Sugar; the Sloop they burnt, and went on to Moonay, another Iſland, thinking to clean, but finding the Sea ran too high there to undertake it with Safety, they bent their Courſe for the North Part of Hiſpaniola, where, at Bennet’s Key, in the Gulf of Saminah, they cleaned both the Ship and the Brigantine. For tho’ Hiſpaniola be ſettled by the Spaniards and French, and is the Reſidence of a Preſident from Spain, who receives, and finally determines Appeals from all the other Spaniſh Weſt-India Iſlands; yet is its People by no Means proportioned to its Magnitude, ſo that there are many Harbours in it, to which Pyrates may ſecurely reſort without Fear of Diſcovery from the Inhabitants.
Whilſt they were here, two Sloops came in, as they pretended, to pay Roberts a Viſit, the Maſters, whoſe Names were Porter and Tuckerman, addreſsed the Pyrate, as the Queen of Sheba did Solomon, to wit, That having heard of his Fame and Atchievements,
they had put in there to learn his Art and Wiſdom in the Buſineſs of pyrating, being Veſsels on the ſame honourable Deſign with himſelf; and hoped with the Communication of his Knowledge, they ſhould alſo receive his Charity, being in want of Neceſsaries for ſuch Adventures. Roberts was won upon by the Peculiarity and Bluntneſs of theſe
