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Poor Conditions
on Pirate Ship
The captured
(1. First
Captured Ship Name) Manila Galleon was
loaded with riches, but not much food. Supplies on all ships were
rationed :
A pound and a half of flour between five men if they were white, or
between six if they were black. The men traded rats among themselves for
fourpence or sixpence depending on size 'and eat them very savourly'. When
Pieces of Pork were stolen, the thieves were thrashed with a cat o'
nine-tales. 'A Negro we named
(2.
First Black Pirate Name) Deptford' died of his punishment. '
On the eighteenth of [January] we threw a Negro overboard, who
died of a Consumption and Want together. On the 25th
(3. Tailor Name) Thomas Williams, a
Welch Taylor, died ; he was shot in the Leg at engaging the second Manila
Ship, and being of weak Constitution, fell into a Dysentery, which kill'd
him. the Spanish Pilot we took in the
(4. Second Captured Ship
Name) Batchelor died ; we kept him,
thinking he might be of use to us, if he recovered of his Wounds ; but he
was shot in the Throat with a Musket-ball which lodged so deep the Doctors
could not come at it. On March the 3rd we buried a Negro
(5. Second Black Pirate Name) call'd Augustine,
who died of the Scurvy and Dropsy.
1710
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