[41] Ocracoke Inlet.
[42] Don Pedro de Estrada is mentioned as an exceptionally able privateering captain, in 1742, by the captain-general of Cuba and by the chief engineer at St. Augustine. Collections of the Georgia Historical Society, VII., pt. 3, pp. 29, 59, 61-63. Wright, Oglethorpe, p. 283, speaks of his vessel as "a notorious privateer called the 'Black Sloop', commanded by Destrade, a French officer who had taken several prizes."
[43] Enlist.
[44] See [doc. no. 136].
[45] Pieces of eight (i.e., eight reals), Spanish dollars. A bit was a real.
[46] The reference is to Gen. James Oglethorpe, and to the recapture of Fort Moosa by the garrison of St. Augustine, June 15, 1740, during his unsuccessful siege of that town.
[47] Havana.
[48] Steered close up to the wind.
[49] Leeward.