Putting the _Swallow_ about, and handling his sails as if in confusion and alarm, Ogle stood out to sea, pursued by the _Ranger_.

When well out of sight of land, the _Ranger_ was allowed to draw up, and the pirate crew suddenly found themselves under the fire of a sixty-gun ship, for which their own thirty-two guns were no match, and after a short engagement the black flag was hauled down.

On the 10th, Ogle stood in again to engage the _Royal Fortune_, disposing his flags to make the pirates believe his ship had been captured by the _Ranger_.

Roberts fought with desperation when he discovered the ruse.

Dressed in rich crimson damask, a scarlet feather in his hat, a gold chain with large diamond cross round his neck, he made a resistance worthy of his reputation, determined to blow up his ship rather than yield.