threw us into the vapours; it bewildered our understandings, and

set the imagination at work to form a thousand terrible things that

perhaps might never happen. We first supposed, as indeed everybody

had related to us, that the seamen on board the English and Dutch

ships, but especially the Dutch, were so enraged at the name of a

pirate, and especially at our beating off their boats and escaping,

that they would not give themselves leave to inquire whether we

were pirates or no, but would execute us off-hand, without giving