'In an honest Service...there is thin Commons, low Wages, and hard Labour...

'Conscience with most of them, was Despair, and they are as easily provoked to set Fire, on the least Suspicion...',

'The Captain is from Holland, and both he and his Men behave after a very strange Manner.'

'Out of these Goods he pick'd up an Estate of some 60,000 Pounds, and being sensible such Practices could not hold long, bought Ship and transported it into England.'

'Captain Kidd hid several Months in New York, suffering under the Weight of Guilt.'

'They made as much haste as they could to the open Sea, but were there overtaken with a violent Storm...'

'Now, this Money was at that Time under the Care of those Brethren, at their Common Treasury.'

'Between Robinson's Island and the Main, there is a small Bar or Harbour, where a Ship of 500 Tons may lie secure from all Winds.'

'He was known to have been one of the Confederates in Captain Avery's Voyage.'

'The pyrates kept Cruising in these Parts about a Fortnight longer...'

A General History of the Pirates