where we killed as many black cattle as we pleased, though we had very
little salt to cure them.

Out of all the prizes we took here we took their powder and bullets,
their small-arms and cutlasses; and as for their men, we always took the
surgeon and the carpenter, as persons who were of particular use to us
upon many occasions; nor were they always unwilling to go with us.

We had one very merry fellow here, a Quaker, whose name was William
Walters, whom we took out of a sloop bound from Pennsylvania to
Barbados. He was a surgeon and they called him doctor, and we made him
go with us, and take all his implements with him. He was a comic fellow
indeed, a man of very good solid sense, and an excellent surgeon; but,
what was worth all, very good-humoured and pleasant in his conversation,
and a bold, stout, brave fellow too, as any we had among us.

I found William not very averse to go along with us, and yet resolved to
do it so that it might be apparent he was taken away by force. "Friend,"
he says, "thou sayest I must go with thee, and it is not in my power to
resist thee if I would; but I desire thou wilt oblige the master of the
sloop to certify under his hand that I was taken away by force, and
against my will." So I drew up a certificate myself, wherein I wrote
that he was taken away by main force, as a prisoner, by a pirate ship;
and this was signed by the master and all his men.

"Thou hast dealt friendly by me," says he, when we had brought him
aboard, "and I will be plain with thee, whether I came willingly to thee
or not. But thou knowest it is not my business to meddle when thou art
to fight."