but perceiving his strength and resolution, she retired, and left Teach to pursue his depredations.  His next adventure was with a sloop of ten guns, commanded by Major Bonnet, and these two men co-operated for some time:  but Teach finding him unacquainted with naval affairs, gave the command of Bonnet’s ship to Richards, one of his own crew, and entertained Bonnet on board his own vessel.  Watering at Turniff, they discovered a sail, and Richards with the Revenge slipped her cable, and ran out to meet her.  Upon seeing the black flag hoisted, the vessel struck, and came-to under the stern of Teach the commodore.  This was the Adventure from Jamaica.  They took the captain and his men on board the great ship, and manned his sloop for their own service.

Weighing from Turniff, where they remained during a week, and sailing to the bay, they found there a ship and four sloops.  Teach hoisted his flag, and began to fire at them, upon which the captain and his men left their ship and fled to the shore.  Teach burned two of these sloops, and let the other three depart.

They afterwards sailed to different places, and having taken two small vessels, anchored off the bar of Charleston for a few days.  Here they captured a ship bound for England, as she was coming out of the harbor.  They next seized a vessel coming out of Charleston, and two pinks coming into the same harbor, together with a brigantine with fourteen negroes.  The audacity of these transactions, performed in sight of the town, struck the inhabitants with terror, as they had been lately visited by some other notorious pirates.  Meanwhile, there were eight sail in the harbor, none of which durst set to sea for fear of falling into the hands of Teach.  The trade of this place was totally interrupted, and the inhabitants were abandoned to despair.  Their calamity was greatly augmented from this circumstance, that a long and desperate war with the natives had just terminated, when they began to be infested by these robbers.

Teach having detained all the persons taken in these ships as prisoners, they were soon in great want of medicines, and he had the audacity to demand a chest from the governor.  This demand was made in a manner not less daring than insolent.  Teach sent Richards, the captain of the Revenge, with Mr. Marks, one of the prisoners, and several others, to present their request.  Richards informed the governor, that unless their demand was granted, and he and his companions returned in safety, every prisoner on board the captured ships should instantly be slain, and the vessels consumed to ashes.

During the time that Mr. Marks was negotiating with the governor, Richards and his associates walked the streets at pleasure, while indignation flamed from every eye against them, as the robbers of their property, and the terror of their country.  Though the affront thus offered to the Government was great and most audacious, yet, to preserve the lives of so many men, they granted their request, and sent on board a chest valued at three or four hundred pounds.