"If so, I may tell you something of him.

I am lately from Charles Town, and the talk there was that Blackbeard was lying outside the harbour in Stede Bonnet's old vessel, and that Bonnet had lately joined him.

I did not venture out of port until I had had certain news that these pirates had sailed northward.

They had two or three ships, and the talk was that they were bound to the Virginias, and perhaps still farther north.

They were fitted out for a long cruise." "Gone again!" exclaimed Mr.Delaplaine in a hoarse voice.