From the coast of Carolina he shaped his course for the banks of Newfoundland, where he overhauled several fishing vessels, and then went into Trinity Harbor in Conception Bay, where there lay several merchantmen, and seized a 24 gun galley, called the Herman.  The commander, Captain Beal, told Lewis, if he would send his quarter master ashore he would furnish him with necessaries.  He being sent ashore, a council was held among the masters, the consequence of which was, the seizing the quarter master, whom they carried to Captain Woodes Rogers.  He chained him to a sheet anchor which was ashore, and planted guns at the point, to prevent the pirate getting out, but to little purpose; for the people at one of these points firing too soon, Lewis quitted the ship, and, by the help of oars and the favor of the night, got out in his sloop, though she received many shot in her hull.  The last shot that was fired at the pirate did him considerable damage.

He lay off and on the harbor, swearing he would have his quarter master, and intercepted two fishing shallops, on board of one of which was the captain of the galley’s brother.  He detained them, and sent word, if his quarter master did not immediately come off, he would put all his prisoners to death.  He was sent on board without hesitation.  Lewis and the crew inquired how he had been used, and he answered, very civilly.  “It’s well,” said the pirate, “for had you been ill treated, I would have put all these rascals to the sword.”  They were dismissed, and the captain’s brother going over the side, the quarter master stopped him, saying, he must drink the gentlemen’s health ashore, particularly Captain Rogers’ and, whispering him in the ear, told him, if they had known of his being chained all night, he would have been cut in pieces, with all his men.  After this poor man and his shallop’s company were gone, the quarter master told the usage he had met with, which enraged Lewis, and made him reproach his quarter master, whose answer was, that he did not think it just the innocent should suffer for the guilty.

The masters of the merchantmen sent to Capt.  Tudor Trevor, who lay at St. John’s in the Sheerness man-of-war.  He immediately got under sail, and missed the pirate but four hours.  She kept along the coast and made several prizes, French and English, and put into a harbor where a French ship lay making fish.  She was built at the latter end of the war, for a privateer, was an excellent sailer, and mounted 24 guns.  The commander hailed him:  the pirate answered, from Jamaica with rum and sugar.  The Frenchman bid him go about his business; that a pirate sloop was on the coast, and he might be the rogue; if he did not immediately sheer off, he would fire a broadside into him.  He went off and lay a fortnight out at sea, so far as not to be descried from shore, with resolution to have the ship.  The Frenchman being on his guard, in the meanwhile raised a battery on the shore, which commanded the