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Captain North, Captain Bellamy. ope And their feveral CR EW S. ; Intermix’d with a efcription of MaGapoxa in Ethiopia; the natural Hatred and Cruelty of the Inhabitants to all Whites; their Laws, Man- ners, Cuftoms, Government and Religion: With a particular ACCOUNT of the beautiful Tombs, and their Ceremony of guarding them, taken from Captain’ Beavis’s Journal ; and that of a Molotto, who belong’d to the faid Captain, was taken by, and lived feveral Years. with the MaGapoxtans, ‘ . To the Whole is added An APPENDIX, which compleats the Lives of the firft Volume, corrests fome Miftakes; and contains the Tryal and Execution of the Pyrates at Providence; under Governor Rozers ; with fome other neceffary Infertions, which did not come to Hand till after the Publica- tion of the firft Volume, and which makes up what was defettive. Col- lected from Journals of Pyrates, brought away by a Perfon who was ta- ken by, and fore’d to live with them 12 Years ; and from thofe of Com- manders, who had fallen into their Hands, fome of whom haye per- mitted their Names to be made ule of, as a Proof of the Veracity of © what we have publifhed, The Whole inttrutive and entertaining, te tin een VOL. IL Re ee ee eee By Capt. Cuarzes Jounson, Author of Vol. I. cA Ret cia SRM ENT eR MRS Omne tulit punttum, qui mifcuit utile dulci. © Hor. SESS LO). NAD O'ONS | Y Printed for, and Sold by 'T’. Woop warp, at the Half-moon, ovcr-againt Sz, Dazflan’s Crarch, Blest -reet. Se ee ae DORIA IAD AOR AO WV. B. From 144 exclufive, to 272 inclufive, when you feek for any Reference add 16 to Number of the Page in the Contents, and it will mend the Error of the Pret. 1 IS Birth and Education, p. 1, 2. He goes on board the Vi&toire, ib. —P2fits Rome, is acquainted with a “| lewd Prieft, 3. The Saying of a Cardinal, 4. Mif- fon carries Caraccioli to Leghorn, ib. The Viftoire engages two Sally Men, Caraccioli wourded, 5. Miffon re- turns home, a foort Defcription of Marfeilles ; Miflon and bis Companion go on board the Triumph, 6. The Mayflower, Capt. Balladine taken ;' the French Captain's Behaviour to the Englith Prifoners ; his remarkable Speech, 7. The Port Royal, an Englifh Jamaica Afan, chas'd ; the Triumph returns to Breft, firikes on a Rock; a foort Defeription of the Town and Harbour ; fhe goes thence to Rochel ; Miffon and his Companion take their Departure for the Wett Indies, 8. , The Reafon for Circumcifion, 9. New Thoughts of a future State, 19. The Sirft Foundation of Monarchy, 11. ‘The Winchelfea, an Englith Man of War, blown up; Miflon faluted Captain, 12. Ca- raccioli chofen Lieutenant, the Captain harangues bis Crew; the Refolution taken by all to turn Fyrates, 13. The Charadfer of @ good and bad Magiffrate, 13, 14. A Defence of Pyracy; the black Exfien rejected, a new one devifed; a Prefent of Plate made to Miilon, 16. Miffon’s Speech to bis Men, 17. He declares War againft all the World; they take a Bolton Sloop off St. Chriftophers, 18. A Jamaica Privateer taken by Stra- tagem,19. — The Privateer difcharged ; meets qwith and turns back the Diana ; the ViXtoire engages two Dutchmen between Carthagena and Porto Bello, 20, 21. One of the Dutch- men funk, the other taken; Caraccioli goes afore at Carthage- na, 22. The Prize fold to the Spaniards, 23. Two En« glith ater of War on the Point of engaging each other, 23, 2Ae Miffon goes in the Purfuit of a Galleon but miffes ber ; 14 Men out of the Dutch Prize take on with the Pyrates ; they take a Jamaica Merchant Man in the Gulf of Florida, difcharze the Ship with little Damage, 25. 12 French Prifeners ont of the a3 ee Pring The O NVE#-N PS. Prize join Miffon ; bis Generofity to the Prifoners ; beaves dow? his Ship, 26. The Courfe they foould fteer put to the Vote, and refolved for the Guiney Craft, 27. the Niewftadt taken and detain’d ; the Captain's Speech,the Slaves made free, 21. fon goes into Logoa Bay, cleans the ViStoire and his Prize, 29 His Speech to the Dutch, 29,30. The Pyrates take another Dutch ship on the Coat of Angola, plunders and fink ber; he “s fends away his Prifoners in the firft Prize; 11 Dutch take on with Miflon, 31. He takes an Englith Ship, the Captain killed in the Engagement, and buried in Soldinia Bay ; the Cere- mony of bis Funeral; 30 Englith enter with the Pyrates, 32+ Caraccioli made Captain of the Prize; the reft of ihe Englifh come over, Officers excepted ; they cruixe off Johanna; fave the Crew of an English Ship; they ave kindly received at Johannay 33+ _ The Policy of the Pyrates ; Miffon, Caraccioli, and fe- veral of their Men take Wives; fome fay on ibis, others join Mif- fon ; the King of Mohila invades the Johannians, 34. The Mohilians defeated ; Miflon fails for Mohila, Pe eter Lands and does great Damage, the Queen of Johanna’s Requeft “con- trary to Miffon’s Views, 36. vemarkable Speech of one of them, 37. hilians, 38. Curaccioli wounded, 39. Stratagem of the King of Mohila to excufe bimfelf ; the Opinton of the Johan- nians; 4 fecond Landing, 39, 40. hanna ; the conjugal Affection of a Johanna Woman, At. . Manner of her Suicide, 42. é guebar, 43. The Pyrates return to Jo- The They take a Portuguefe Ship ; Caraccioli loofes his right Leg ; they veturn to \channa; Miffon fails for Mada- — gafcar, enters the Bay to the NoriLward of Diego Suarez,. 44° — His q Pitches on a Place for fetiling, aid i rn to Johanna, 45. Demand of the Johannians, az heir Compliance, 45, 46 They goto Madagascar ; begin to fettle ; meet with a Native) — 4]- -. They come with a Village, 48. _ OF Captain. Bowen. of at Maritan, 50. Surprizes the Speedy Return, Ship, 51. © Captain Green driven into Scotland, fufpedied pyvatically taking the Scots Ship, 52. The Evidence again Green, 53. ‘That Evidence vefuted, 54,55. Captain Greedy &e. condemned, 55. Their Treatment ajter Sentence, 554 5° Haizes avd Linicys forced Confeffion, 56. The Roper Galley of Mit a ; q for the Red Sea, 61. Ambagudors from Mohila; # 7 Treachery of the Mo- — 4 They refolve for the Coaft of Zan- AK 5m Coneway near Collequilon, 49... Steers for i Madagafear, /oofes his Ship «ff, and is entertain’ hy the 6 — ~ wernor at, Mauritius; buys a Veffcl, goes to Madagafcar, feitles a Scots The. GON TRNAS. brings home two of the Speedy Return’s Crew ; the Commotions among the common People, and Execution of Green, Madder, Sympfon, 57. Captain Green's Speech, 58. Bowen fails for, Mafcarenas, is difappointed in his Hopes, ib. Loofes Company of his Brigantine ; fails for Mauritius ; comes back to Madagafcar join’d by the Brigantine, which they condemn and burn , hears of Captain Howard, 59. Sails in Search of Howard, mects with bim at Mayoita ; they take ibe Pembroke, and after plundering let ber go, 60. Capt. Whaley, falfely printed Wovlley, detain’d ; the Speedy Returh goes to Mada- gafear to clean, coming back and miffing their Comrade they freer goin the Profperous off the Highland of St. John; Boweén takes a Moor Ship , the Profperous fepa- vated by the Chafe joins them, both Ships burnt, and both Crewe £0 on board the Prize, 62 The Villany of a Dutchman, 63. Captain Whaley difcharged ; the Pembroke a fecond Time plun-_ ' der'd ; the Pyrates go to Mauritius; #0 of Drummond’s Crew get away, who were fruitle/s Evidences for Capt. Green, 64. OF Captain WIELIAM Kr. Ommanded a Privateer in the Weft-Indies, recommended to the Government by Lord Bellamont, &c. 65. Not encouraged, he is fent out in a prwate Man of War with the King’s Commif- fion, 66, 67, 68. He fails for New York, in his Way takes _@ French Banky arrived there, foips move Hands, 68, Sails to - Maderas, Bonavifta, Cape de Verd I/lands, and Madagafear 5 meets 3 Englifh ee meets with nothing at Mada- gafcar.; goes to the abar Coaft, crsizes about Mohila and Johanna, borrows Money and repairs his Ship, 69. At Mab- hee he takes fome Corn; from thence fteers for Bab’s Key; he fends a Boat along the Coaft, and gains Intelligence, 70. He falls in with a Fleet, but is obliged to freer off; goes to the Ma~- labar Coaft, takes a Moorifh Veffel 5 treats the Men cruelly, and difchavges the Veffel; touches at Carawar, and is fafpedted of Fyracy, 71. Engages a Portuguefe Man ae [ent after him and gets off; takes a Moor Ship, under Pretence of ber being French, 72. Keeps Company with a Durch ship; quarvels avith and kills his Gunner ; plunders a Porctuguefe Ship on the Malabar Coajt and lets her go; bis Cooper is mturder'd in one of the Malabar Ilands; be burns and pillages feveral Houfes, com- mands a Native to be foot, 73. He takes the Queda, cand aves 2001. a Man amongft his Crew, 74. He cheats the Indians; goes to Mudagafear ; meets there Culliford the Pyrate, (ifts in- to the Queda, and fiares the ret of ker Cargo, 75. His Men A n a 4 defert a brings — GR Ws de lo | a meets a Ship of the great Megul’s, Built; Caraccioli opens the Seffion with a Speech, 100+ for fettling at Madagafcar, 1¢4, 105- ber Creav loft: "Tew flays 3 Months with bis cld Companions ; The CONTENTS. defert from bim 10 40; goes to Amboyna, hears he'is declared a pyrate in England ; Lord Bellamont prints his $uftification 5 a Pardon granted to Pyratet, Avery and Kid excepted, 76. Kid goes to, and is fecured at New York; fome of bis Crew de> — pending on the Pardon, are confined , fent to England and con- demn’d, 3 excepted, 77+ A Diftinétion of the Lawyers ; Kid found guilty of the Murder of bis Gunner; fome plead the King's Pardon to no Purfofe, 78 Mullins bis Plea, 78, 79 Kid’s Plea ujelefs, be and bis Men indicted, executed, 80. Of Captain Trew. Eafon for breaking off Capt. Miffon’s Life, his Adventures con- tinued, 81. Miffon’s Crea correfpond with the Natives ; Miflon goes to Sea again, meets a Portuguele Ship of 52 Guns, $2. - After an obftinate Engagement makes her Prize, 83. He oneets Captain Tew, 84. Tew fet out by the Governor of Ber- mudas, with Captain Drew ; ‘they ave parted in @ Storm ; be. propofes to bis Men the going on the Account, 85. Tew flecrs for the Red Seas; meets avith and takes a vich Prize, 86, 87- ‘The Pyrates foare out of ber 3000 la Man; tke Quarter Mafter and 23 Men fettle at Madagafcar ; Tew goes with Miffon, $76 Account of Troceedings aftore, 88» The Prifoners d'feharged, 895 90. Tew goes to the Guiney Coaft, “makes two Prizes and veturns, g1- — Miflon builds two Sloops, 92. Some Natives fetile among thofe of the Colory, Caraccioli goes to Mafcarenas returns with a Dutch Prize; Miffon fails to the Northward, ' Shapes his Courfe with bis Prize for Madagafcar ; is overtaken with a Storm, 94- Arrive at their Settlement , the Vikoire rebuilt ; the Settlement attack’d, 95. The Difpofition of their Forces , they repel and purfue the Invaders, g6. The Pyrates take a Ship and execute two Prifoners,97- Caracciolt’s Speech, 98,99 Some Dif- ference arifes among the French and Englifh, and is accommo- dated; @ erg Affembly called, 99. A Form of Governmert propos'd and enter’d upon, a Council chofen and a Council-houfe Great Officers and a privy Council chofen, 101. Tew goes to Sea; uarvter Ma- fpeaks with his old Quarter- Mafter, 102. The 9 er’s Difcourfe to hint, 103. The Quarter Ma fier’s Reafons the Vi&toire and He telis Tew the Misfortsne of Miffon fbares meets Captain Miffon, 106. the Colory offers him one of the Slocps, 107+ the Treafuve they ape their Ccsmfe fer the Guir cy Conf; Mite fon . isin tcc piss vee eit Nipsip elaine St nent oe re von papell tte aint . Sein The, CON TEIN: TS: fon perifses in a ; Storm; Te isfies Hirt scien evepegl Ww arrives at Rhode Ifland ; fatisfies Pichi i efe Papers came to the Author's Hand; Tew ed: to go out again, 108. He meets a Ship in the Streights of the R: «je bia a Men fete dies on sete “en a eens “rho. Of Captain HALsey. FS: Bivedi s+ bogies ; j Roes out avith a Commifion ; takes a Frencl ?, 49 i = Cig Goes to Fial and the Canary ilands 3 makes Prize at ues ae 3 goes to Bravo, turns bis Lieutenant afore, fers ice . agaicar, takes in fome Ship-aureck'a Men; makes ‘y the Ship 3 os oo Meets with and keeps Company vith a Dutch for fe i * oken by his Crew 3 is reinftated in his Command ; feeers As ke Ilana ; takes the Buttalo; Captain Buckley dies. iA : akes Captain Collins ; om a Difpute his Crea divides ; itch for Madagafear; Halfey fleers for the Streights of Ma- Be EN atte ie attack twe different Ships ; he chafes 7 ed by the Albemarle, 172. Make. Mad: car, falls in qwith Mafearenas; I pt aa 2 Woh arrives at Madagafcar, meets A ptain White ; augments. his © > aed nas fer the BS Seas ; ops at Joharna ; ime fea mg taken; takes a Grab, 112 Takes the Ri ? : 3. akes the Rift teen be Gehan of her, chief Mate, and Purfer, killed 3 coe swavdice, 114. — The fecond Mate of the Prize f 1 Prize fooots eerie frriking ; they chafe and take the Effex ; uy a y ee a Ug any ; a the Prizes, are civil 10 the Pay: » and return to Madagafcar, 115 A Shi : fe . Ships. comes from Maderafs, encther from Scotland to trade Roy ie fatter i ie fatter is furprized by the Pyrates ; a Hurricane happens ; Burgils's Treochery, 116 The Maderats ship fei al Ga ts Ship feized, and afterwards fent away, Halfey’s Death, x 17. His funeral Gonna: 118s Of Captain THomAs WHITE. J I'S Birth and Education ; bit firft Bm ei 3 bi imployment ; he is taken | sofia se isp sh ae and detain'd, they fink their ewn Fogel iY rm White's Brigantine, 119. Cruel i ; » 11g ritelty of the Py- rates to the Englith Prifoners ; White narrowly oth Bie prot ; hi. ler’ foot ; his Protefbor murder d; the Pyrates freer for Madagafear, hoofe their shi; i ae : aro p at Elexa ; White and {me other Prifoners get to beabanisaes ads 1Z00 They ave obliged by the King of Bavaw oard Read the Pyrate; « Number of the French F yrates cut off, the reft made Slaves by the Natives; Read goes to ie ’ the Seer e = The CONTENTS. ; tity of Perfia, takes a Grab; throws over board 4 Quan eu lbs Read dies; Pas ae = rd i j ta. rs eh ae fie Maaasateses meet Fourgette’s Veffel, ee ee Manner of taking this Veffel, 122, 123. They go to St Mary’s; Captain Moffon and bis Grew cut off; the tae abe join Apaneaes come to an Anchor ” Se Se ier j d . Freights the Pyrates ; aa Cake Bee aad Bebatiwr of the Captain of the Spea- ue eee the Purfer of the Speaker taken Prifoner and re- oe ate of Hugh Man, 126, ‘The Speaker Serpe ds Fa Fourgette’s Ship given to the Captain of the Spea ee ; tbe fuality of the Pyrates; Death of the Captain of ws i ie : tbe pyrates make for the Eaft Indies; top on the cost of Zan ictar 128. Capt, Booth and twenty other Coaft of waded Bowen fucceeds him; in the Month py iy Red Seas fall in with 13 Sail, 129. A Difpute pee ‘ ey f a Moor’s ship; they go to the Malabar Coaft ; ite ai on board the Prosperous ; the pinta tes eres “a j hief Mate of the Proip ‘ 2s White. left ae ue for Methelage, aah a ie bas e him 3 t ethelage, jo ce Suey ees ae : "ake bee OF tbe Canaradis in the Sup oe Ma *s lad go to Olumbah, where they fortify serene : fia of a Pyrates among themfelves, 133. White tuys “ nl sto Methelage ; meets fome of the Degraves ‘ Mat pins Prize ; 1s chofen Captain ; ge ie aaa By ad ‘Is fo : o Babel Mandel ; /ze bi - ue “s pe te te 3 Be not venture on a Dutchman ; Gund va the Ethiopian Coaft ; takes the Malabar ; chafes @ Portuguefe Man of War ; pies a Merchant Man of the fame. is Ship ; takes Captain. Penruddock ; ee ane cry ee him Gon Prefents ; fends gives Ee . bare 200 1. a Man; mifs @ great Booty ; eae ik Bitaae ; takes Captain BEY) ee, aie ; ee hens eae he fe Melestear ach at Mafcarenas ; fome of Defarr; fie here, the ref fetle at Madagafcar ; Captain eh White makes aVoyzge with Halfey ; White's Death, 13]. His Will, 138. Of Captain CONDENT. ; sais 1S Birth, be leaves Providence ; Refentment of an Indian 3 3 . —H Condent’s Bravery; be is wounded, 139. A hocking Piece ivides 5 ae ; taken , the Crea divides ; of Ishamanity 5 the Duke. of York caine Condeat ne tp ma Ne ne ret a NN a inte RR rr a 4 ~ Natives fire at the Boat, 1 54. ! | , | . The CONTENTS. Condent chofen Captain of one Party; makes for the Cape de Verd Ilands; takes a Ship from Maderas 3 arrives at the Ile of May, and takes 20 Sails turns Sufice of Feace; fails. to St. Jago, takes and goes on board a Dutch Ship; makes feveral Prizes on the Brazil Coaft, 140. Takes the Wright Galley, @ Portuguefe and 2 Duich Ea India man 3 freers for the Iland Ferdinando, difcharges Captain Spelt ; fails again for the Bra- wil Coaft ; engages 4 70 Gun Ship; takes ancther Portuguefe and a Frenchman, 141. Some of his Men feized in the River of Plate ; forc’d, Men get away, Cruelty to the Portuguefe, and the Reafon; goes to the Guiney Coaf?, and takes Captain Hill; fiands. away for ihe Eaft Indies ; takes an Oftender 5 arvives.at + Madagafear 5 meets avith Some of Halfey’s Crew «hich increafes his Number, goes for the aft Indies; ftops at Johanna, 142. Affifis in taking the Caffandra ; touches at Mafcarenas, takes #79 Gun Ship ; goes to the Coaft of Zanguebar, razes a Dutch . Fortification, makes Conditions with the Governor of Mafcarenas, marries his Sifter, comes to Europe, feitles at St. Maloes, 143. Defcription of MacAboxa, See Reafon of Captain Beavis’s coming on the Zanguebar Coaft, 144.. His third Mate hoes cfoore, 145. He defcribes the People at bis Return on board, 146. The fourth Mate and a _ Molatio go afvore and return; he goes further to the Weftward,147. The third Mate and Gunner land again, lopes and two Guiney Hens ; the Ship but they avoid the Boat’s Crew, 148. come back with 3 Anti-= weighs, they {py fome Men ; They difcover, and anchor before a Town ; the Men Lent, civilly treated, 149. They return to the Ship with a Prefent from the King’s Son, the third Mate, Gunner, and Molotto, enfuared, 150. whe Ship's Boat feized, TSI. The firff Mate goes towards the Shore, the Natives aif~ charge theiv Arrows at the Boat, ard he returns to the Ship, 152 The Captain's Method to he inferm’d of bis People, 1 53. The The Captain defpairing of bis Men, aveighs and keeps along Shore, 155. Sails for jobanna, 156. The Manner of the Mate, &c. being betray'd; the Mo- fotte is carried before the King, 157. His Examination; De- feription of the Prifon, 158. he Nolatto is inform’d of the cruel Death of bis Companions, 1 §9: He 7s carried again befove the King ; avhat paft betaveen the King and him, 160, 161. He #5 remanded to Goal; bis Converfation avith the Saylor and an- other, 161. Sent for by the King ; 10 what End’: Defeription of the Coway, 162. His Treatment in the Geal better'd, 163. He receives News of the Ship's Departure, 164. He 75 taken inte The CONTENTS. . into the King’s Service ; his Bufinefs ; the Diet of the People,165. * His Manner of Life, 166. 168, 169: The Manner of the King’s taking the Air, 169, 170. ‘The Death of Malefaétors, ib. The Augaxet defcrib'd; the Boxee a monftrous amphibious Creature, the Maffau and Sa- . et E is pipp'd b iy. Contain Cleencds 9 ’ Qe chew deferibed, 171. The King's Diverfions; the Genius of tke People ; a Tradition among them, 172. — Defcription of the Py~ one; the Molatio is queftion’d for going out of the Town, 17%. He attends the King to the Moorzucks ; what they are; the Con- — - werfation of the Day, 174+ The Molotto under great Appre- prebenfions ; be ts order’'d to the Moorzacks, 175. He is taught bis Duty, 176. — Defeription of a Pohalick, 177. He is fent for to the City, clapp'd into Prifon ; the Reafon of it, 178. ‘His Converfation with the aylor, and afterwards with the King, — 179. The Manner of bis paling bis Time, being remanded back to the Moorzacks, 180, 181. By what Accident he comes into Favour, 182. He teaches the Way of Fifting with a Line, 183 The Execution of a Paflau, 184. A particular De- feription of the Moorzacks, 184 185, 186, 187, 188. . The Funeral Ceremony of the Magadoxians, 189,190 The Reli- gion 191. A Rebellion; a Ship appears ; the Molotto brought te the Army, 192. Treachery of the King, 193- A great Slaughter ; the Molotto bears of 4 Ship; meditates bis Efcape, 194. -He gets away in the Night, 195. He comes comes up 20 a large River; difcovers fix Men in his Purfuit, fwims over the River, 196. Efcapes a large Alligator fpies the Ship, 197. Is taken om board a Dutch Boat, 198. Two of his Pur- faers fim on board the Boat , give an Account of one being de- wour'd by an Alligator, 199. The Molotto goes to Batavia ;. fails in’ the Dutch Service; from Holland comes to En- gland, 200. Of Captain BELLAMY. URNS Pyrate with Williams, they take Captain Prince ; Bel- T lamy is made Captain of the Prize , infeft the Coaft of Vir- ginia, 201. A great Skerm, 202. Captain Beer taken, 203. Bellamy’s Speech to Beer, 204. An odd Accident, 205, 206. Williams takes @ Veffel off Cape Cod, 205. Defzription of Nova Scotia ; the Pyrates careen in the River Me- chifes, 207. 4 Sailor's Advice, 208, 209. A {mart En- gagement, 210, The Mary Anne taken, ib. the Whidaw loft ; Cruelty of the Pyrates, Execution of 7 of them, 2it- eer ENA a tit tity ete iy ti iad gi pion Defcription of the Town, Pc. 167, 6 H: Sets out a Pyrating in @ Canoe, 224. _ Pyrates taken off the land by another Pyrate, 229, Nes out in @ Canoe, 235. The CONTENTS. Of Captain Fry. Confpiracy again ne and barbarous Murder of, Captain Green, os ss re ong ca rly chofen Captain; Fulker taken, 216. Barba- eee fed towards Fulker, 217. Captain Gale taken, 218. forid Speech of Fly’s, 219. Harris taken, 2020, A Schooner taken, 2: j My 221. Fly furprized and taken, 222 &e. are executed, 223. ra ceil ae Of Captain Howarpn. Takes an Trith Brigantine, and S2veral other Prizes, 225. The Cowardice of @ Portuguele Captain, 226. Mr. Godl i f : p 226, 4 y of Briftol bis Ship plunder a, 227. Howard dike to be Ue op 3 the Py- rates loofe their Ship; Howard robs his Comrades, 228. ‘The ) en off H himself robb d, ib. The Thief robb'd by bis Cag awed Howard goes on board the Speaker ; declared Captain of the Profperous, 231. wounded, 232. Ships taken, 235. His Defign on a Dutchman; Howard He is joined by Bowen, 233, Two Moor Howard's Death, ib. Of Captain Lewrs. He makes feveral Prizes ; y of the Bermudas Men, Bravery of one ee 236, Lawhtt Suffice, 237. His Cruelty to the Englith, takes the Herman his Quarter-Mafier feized afoore, 238. He is released; the Sheernefs Man of War narrowly mifs the Pyrates, 239. "rakes 4 large Frenchman by Stratagem, 240. A remarkable Acci~ dent; Captain Smith taken ; the Company parts ; the Confequence tothe French, 241. Lewis murther d, 2426 Oe Captain Conners. ae Es many Prizes 3 burns moft of the Portuguefe Veffels, the fry _ Sinks a@Guiney Man in an Engagement, 244, ee & Minute Guns, the Lofs of a Ship, 245. The fatal Pi : ev ence of Revenge; the Pyrates arrive at Madagafcar, 246. abe Hiflory of King Chimenatto, 247, 248, 249. ‘The Py- rates The CONTENTS. Cornelius Fig vates in Danger of being taken, 250 Death, 251. ; Of Captain WILLIAMS. ' IS Birth, 252 He 7s left on Madagafcar, 233. He 75 H token Prifoner, 254. Taken a fecond Time, 255. He i5 a third Time taken, 256. King Dempaiso fends for Wil-_ Hiams, 256, 257- The King of Maratan refu/es to fend bint, 257° He is obliged to give Williams up, 258. Williams makes a Voyage to the Red Sea, 259. He is carvied Pyifo-~— ner on board the Severn, 260. He is chofem Captain of the Scots Ship, 261. He is put to a cruel Death, 262. His | Men on Board murder'd, 263. . His and his Mens Blood re- weng'd, 2640 Of Captain BuRGESsS. E fets out to trade with the Pyrates loofes his Ship, flays ab” H Madagafear, and is forced on board a Pyrate, 265. Makes a Voyage to the Eaft Indies, and gets home, he makes tivo Voy- ages to Madagafcar from New York, 266. Is taken by an “Paft- India Man in returning on the fecond Voyage, 267. Is condemn’d for Pyracy and pardon’d ; goes on Board the Neptune, 268. Betrays the Ship, and is chofen Quarter-Mafter, 269 He is firipp'd by bis Comrades, recovers bis Money, is firipp'd Goes on board the Henry, 2716 AIAN, 250 272s Is poyfon'dy a - “Men, 289, |\CONTENTS HE Reception of Captain Rogers, Governor of, and at Providence, 275. _ Raekham and Vane part, 281. Rackham’s Ship taken, ke and his Crew efcape afvore, oi woe Pediat gets to Providence, and is allowed sebe efi i the King’s Pardon, 284. — Anne Bonny propofes hans Tisband bis felling ber to Rackham, 286, _ Rack- Mm feizes a Sloop, 287. He forces fome of 'Turnley’s eyes Governor Rogers bis Sloops feized, 292. 'Turn~ ehh t maroon'd, 294. Their Hard[ips, 295 to 303. The he es catch a Tartar, 303. They are all taken, the forced ane os to Providence, 304. Governor Rogers fends to ie be maroon'd Men, 305, The Pyrates who efcaped om = ve intrap’d by Governor Rogers, 306 to 308. Rounfiyal’s melee 309. Teach fends Mr. Mark for Druggs, Wrage, — left Hoftages, 313.. The Hoftages in’ Yeopardy of their rss 3 @ Boat coming on board faves them, 314, 315- Teach vaws np before Charles Town, 316. The Hoftages releafed, 316. A Vindication of Governor Eden, 317 t0 319. Major cane: 5 Letter to the Governor, 321, 333. The manner of fs ting Captain Worley, 325, 329, The Particulars of Cap- ee his being taken, from his cwn Letter, 339, 335° 2 sey ef the Pyrates, 336 to 355. Their Bebaviour and Exe- ne, 356,360. Captain Vane’s Procedure at Providence, ae His Letter to Governor Rogers, 363. Captain King's $ ef, 365 to 550. Captain Bowen's Birth and fift Em: Pic)menty 3714 ~ He is taken by a French Pyrate, 372. sae of ff Mer ePirs) , os Th CONTENTS. | | Of Captain NorTH. IS Birth, 373. He's prefs'd; runs away 5 goes a Priced H teering, 374: Prefs'd a fecoud Time; runs away again; i i 5 ; Captain Lycence killed, 376. North is again prefs'd and , | efcapes. yj. The Temerity of a Frenchman, 379. He ; ee Saas 380. Take the King of Mayorta, 381. THE Stand for the Red Seas, Confort with Cullitord and Shivers, take a Moors Ship, 382. Reguery among the Pyrates, 383- Ship efcapes; they take three others of the fame Na- | é . | Se : aie if the Dolphin gives over Pyrating : ‘ ) and veturns Lome ; North feparated by bad Weather, they plunder ‘ i | saneainit j i ‘ ho t Dane, (et Fire to the Dolphin, the Reafon, 385. North uae suenfet a fovims to Shore, 386. The Pyrates throw over OF THE their Guns in a Storm, 387. They are foew da Well of Water d ; : ‘ vange Nature, 3838- They meet the Profperous, and Pp Y R A y i 1 S i oe ae Ships, 389. They burn the Speedy Return 5 3 rofperous ; they are all poifoned, 390. Four only : me canta North made Captain, 391+ Ceremony : ; of making their Captain, 392», By North’s Advice the spe: , go off with their Ship, 393. The Pyrates fettle on Madagaf- . = Gar; their Way of Life, $94 to 397. North seeelts Sentle | ‘yard to trade, 397. He jomms and goes 00 War with the Man- orians, 398. He befieges a Town, the Manner of the Siege, eee 8 400. North’s Allies defign to deceive him, 401 Hill ‘ Sacnatalt upon the Difcovery, 402, 4035 404. North returns OF | bomewards, foin’d by the Timoufes, the Ceremony of Swearing : in, North é : tree Re oe | thofe of Madagafcar, 405. Halley comes in, h Cc ] 0 | Hiss ee on board bim, 406. -- Northrives out the 'Ti- ! aptain Mf S S oe | VOL, I. ; ity to a Frenchman, 410+ moufes, 4.07- North’s Humanity North sean pe the Barbarity of the Mayottans towards fomé Englith, 412. - Nerth murder'd, ib. aoe E can be fomewhat particular in Stan the Life of this Gentleman, bé- ss} caufe, by very great Accident, ¥,| we have got into our Hands a . Wie) French Manufcript, in which he | himfelf gives a Detail of hig A&tions. He was born in Pro- rane vencey Of anancient Family ; his Father, whofe true Name he conceals, was Mafter of a plentiful Fortune, but having a great Num- | i B pee 2 Of Captain MIsson. | ber of Children, our Rover had but little Hopes of other Fortune than what he could carve out for himfelf with his Sword. His Parents took Care to. give him an Education equal to his Birth. After he had paffed his Humanity and Logick; and was a. tolerable Mathematician, at the Age of Fifteen ‘he was fent to Angiers, where he was a Year learning his Exercifes. His Father, at his Return home, would have put him into the Musketeers; but as. he was of a roving Temper, and much affected with the Accounts he had read in Books of Travels, he chofe the Sea as.a Life which abounds with more. Variety, and would afford him an Opportunity to gratify his Curiofity, by the Change of Countries. having made this Choice, his Father, with Letters of Recommendation, and every Thing fitting for him, fent him Voluntier on board the Vittoire, com manded by Monfieur Fourbin, his Relation. He was received on Board with all poffible Regard by the Captain, whofe Ship was at Mar/tilles, and was ore .der’d to cruize foon after Adifon’s Arrival. No- thing could be more agreeable to the tne maton of our Voluntier than this Cruize, which made him acquainted with the moft noted Ports of the Mediterranean, and gave him a great Infight into. the practical Part of Navigation. He gtew fond of this Life, and was refolved to be a compleat Sailor, which made him always one of the firft on aYard Arm, either to Hand or Reef, and very inquifitive in the different Methods of working @ Ship: His Difcourfe was turn’d on no other Sub- ject, and he wauld often get the Boatfwain and Carpenter to teach him in their Cabbins the con- {lituent Parts of a Ship’s Hull, and -how to rigg. her, which he generoufly paid ’em for ; and tho! he {pent a great Part of his Time with thefe two Officers, yet he behaved himfelf with fuch Prue dence that they never awempted ata Fasailierie and always paid the Refpest due to his Family- The Ship being at Naples, he obtained Leave of his Captain to $0 to Rome, which he had a greac Defire to vifit.” Hence we may date his Misfor- tunes; for, remarking the licentious Lives of the Clergy (fo different from the Regularity oblery’d among the French Ecclefiafticks,) the Luxury of the Papal Court, and that nothing but Hulls of Reli- gion was to be found in the Metropolis of the Chriftian Church, he began to figure to himfelf that. all Religion was no more than a Curb upon the Minds of the Weaker, which the wifer Sort yielded to, in Appearance only. ThefeSentiments, , fo difadvantageous to Religion and himfelf, were firongly riveted by accidentally becoming acquain- ted with a lewd Prieft, who was, at his Arrival (by meer Chance) his Confeffor, and after that his Procurer and Companion, for he kept him Com- pany to his Death. One Day, having an Opportue nity, he told Adiffon, a Religious was a very good Lite, where a Man had a fubtle enterprifing Gea nius, and fome Friends; for fuch a one wou’d, in a fhort Time, rife to fuch Dignities in the Church, - the Hopes of which was the Motive of all the wifer Sort, who voluntarily took upon them the facerdotal Habit. That the ecclefiaftical State was Sovern’d with the fame Policy as were fecular Prin. cipalities and Kingdoms; that what was beneficial, not what was meritorious and Virtuous, would be alone regarded. That there were no more Hopes for a Man of Piety aud Learning in the Patrimony, of St. Peter, than in any other Monarchy, nay, ra- ther lef , for this being known to be real, that Man’s reje&ted as a Vifionary, no way fit for Em- ployment; as one whofe Scruples might prove Prejudicial, for its a Maxim, that Religion and Politicks can never {et up in one Houfe. As to our Statelmen, don’t imagine that the Purple makes et ath apo fan Of Captain MIssoNn. 3 Of Captain MIsson. 5 4 Of Captain’ Mtsson. ter a Week? 3 ae cs ek’s Cruize f tht ly Men, th ’em Jefs Courtiers than are thofe of other Nations; one of twent mse th tro See Ries OS 5 they know and purfue the Reggione del Stato(a Term the Vigfojre hea ee uae ees eee fhe of Art which means Self-Intereft) with as much had Ports for forty. The Engagement was lone Cunning and as little Confcience as any Secular; and bloody, for the Sally Man hop’d to carry the and are as artful where Art is required, and as bare-| Vittoire ; and, on the contrary, Captain Fourbiz, fo faced and impudent when their Power is great far from having any Thoughts of being taken, he | enough to fupport ’em, in the oppreffing the Peo- was refolutely bent to aid Prize of his Enemies, ple, and aggrandizing their Families. ‘What their or fink his Ship. One of the Sally Mea was com- Morals are, you may read in: the Prattice of their marded by a Spanifh Renegade, (though he had on- | Lives, and their Sentiments of Religion from this ly the Title of a Lieutenant) ‘for the Captain was | Saying of a certain Cardinal, Quantum Lucrum ex 4% young Man who knew little of Marine Affairs. ifta fabula Chriffi! which many of ’em may fay, This Ship was called the Lyon; and he attemp- | tho’ they are not fo foolith. For my Part, lam ted, more than once, to board the Viftoire ; but by | | quite tir’dof the Farce, and will lay hold on the) @ Shot betwixt Wind and Water, he was obliged | firft Opportunity to throw off this mafquerading| todheer off, and running his Guns, Ge. on one Side, | Habit 5 for, by Reafon of my Age, I muft a& an bring her on the careen to ftop his Leak; this be- | under Part many Years; and before I can rife to. ing done with too much Precipitation, fhe overf{er thare the Spoils of the People, I thal, I fear, be and every Soul was loft: His Comrade feeing this | too old to enjoy the Sweets of Luxury; and, asf] Difafter,threw out allhis {mall Sails,and eudeavour’d am an Enemy to Reftraint, | am apprehenfive I t0 get off, but the Viétoire wrong’d her, and oblig’d thal never at up to my Charatter, and carry thro? her to renew the Fight, which the did with great the Hypocrite with Art enough to rife to any cons” Obftinacy, and made Monfieur Fourbin defpair of fiderable Poft in the Church. My -Parents did) Carrying her if he didnot board 3 he made Prepa- not confult my Genius, or they would have given _fations accordingly. Signior Caraccioli and Miffon mea Sword inftead of a Pair of Beads. | Were the two firft on board when the Command, Mifin advifed him to go with him Voluntier; was Siven 5 but they and their Followers were beat _and offer’d him Money to cloath him ; the Prieft 7 back by the Defpair of the Sally Men; the former leap’d at the- Propofal, and 2 Letter coming to received a Shot in his Thigh, and was carried dow Miffon from his Captain, that he was going to tothe Surgeon. The Viétoive laid her on- board the Leghorn, and left to him either to come to Naples, fecond time, and the Sally Men defended their | or go by Land; he chofe the latter, aiid the Domi* Decks with fuch Refolution, that they were co- nican, whom he furnifh’d with Money, clothing) Yer'd with their own, and the dead Bodies of their- himfelf very Cavalierly, threw off his Habit, and Enemies. Miffon feeing one of em jump down the preceeded him two Days, ftaying at Pifa for A4igon; -Main-Hatch with a lighted Match, futpecting his _ from whence they went together to Leghorn, where poten, r efolutely Jeap’d after him, and reaching they found the Viétoire, and Signor Caraccioli, ree iM with his Sabre, laid him dead the Moment he commended by his Friend, was received on Board.| «45 $01ng to fet Fire to. the Powder. The Vittoire. Two Days after they weigh’d from hence, and af B 3 pouring. =. ter / C.»: Of Captain Mrsson. . pouring in more Men, the Atahomerans quitted the Decks, finding Refiftance vain, and fled tor Shelter to the Cook Room, Steerage and Cabbins, and fome run between Decks. The Erench gave ’em Quarters, and put the Prifoners on board the Vi- oive, the Prize yielding nothing worth mention, except Liberty to about fifteen Chriftian Slaves 5 the was carried into and fold with the Prifoners at Leghorn. The Turks loft a great many Men, thé French not lefs than 35 in boarding, for they loft very few by the great Shot, the Sally Men’ firing mofily at the Mafts and Rigging, hoping by dif abling to carry her. The limited Time of theif Crusze being out, the Vittoire returned to Maré feilles, from whence Adiffon, taking his Companion, went to vifit his Parents, to whom the Captain fent a very advantageous Charaéter, both of his Cou- rage and Conduét. He was about a Month at home when his Captain wrote to him, that hi Ship was order’d to Rochelle, from whence he was to fail for the Wef-Indies with fome Merchant Men. This was very agreeable to Afiffon an Signior Caraccicli, who immediately fet out fo Méarfeilles, This Town is well’ ‘fortified, ha! four Parith. Churches, and the Numbet of Inha Ditants is computed to be about 120,000; th Harbour is ctteemed the fafeft in the AMediter yanean, and is the common Station for the Fren Gallies. "% Leaving this Place, they fteer’d for Rochelle, whet the Vittoire was dock’d, the Merchant Ships not be ‘Yng nearready. A4iffon, who did not Care to pa’ fo long a Time in Idlenefs, propofed to his Com rade the taking a Cruize on board the Triumph who was going into the Englifly Channel; the Jra lian readily confented to it. ~ Briffol Channel, near as far as Na Of Captain Misson, 7 Between the Ifle of Guernfey and the Start Point, they met with the Mayflower, Captain Balladine Com- manded, a Merchant ship of 18 Guns, richly la- den, and coming from Yamaica. The Captain of the Englifh made a gallant Refiftance, and fought his Ship ‘fo long, that the French could not carry her into Harbour, wherefore they took the Money, and what was moft valuable, out of her ; and find. ' ing the made more Water than the Pumps could free, quitted, and faw her go down in lefS than four Hours after. Monfieur Le Blanc, the French Captain, received Captain Balladine very civilly, ‘and woul ftripp’d, faying, None but Cowards ought to be treated after that Manner , that brave Men ought to treat fuch, though their Enemies, as Brothers; and that to ufe a gallant Man (who does his Duty) ill, peaks a Revenge which cannot proceed but from a Coward Soul. He ore der’d that the Prifoners fhould have their Chefts ; and when fome of his Men feem’d to mutter, he bid *em remember the Grandeur of the Monarch they ferv’d; that they were neither Pyrates nor Privateers ; and, as brave Men, they ought to thew their Enemies an Example they would wil- lingly have follow’d, and ufe their Prifoners as they wifh’d to be us’d. They running up the Englifh Channel jas high as Beachy Head, and, in returning, fell in with three fifty Gun Ships, which gave Chace to the Triumph ; but as fhe was an excellent Sailor, fhe run ’em out of Sight in feven Glaffes, and made the beft of her Way for the Lands-End they here cruized eight Days, then doubling Capé Cornwall, ran up the ‘ fh Point, and intercep- ted a fmall Ship from Barbadoes, and ftretching away — to the Northward, gave Chafe toa Ship they faw in the Evening, but loft her in the Night. The Tis - amph ftood then towards Milford, and {pying a Sail; i Ra eae d not fuffer either him or his Men to be - | | ances sma £1 ma a neta erer een arare 8) Of Captain Mrsson. endeavour’d to cut her off the Laud, but found it impoflible , for fhe got into the Haven, though they came up with her very faft, and fhe had fure- ly been taken, had the Chafe had been auy thing longer. the Con:pany with him aud the Charles. They now re‘uri’d to their own Coaft, and fold their Prize at Breff, where, at his Defire, they left Captain Balladine, and Monfieur le Blane.made him‘a Prefent of Purfe with 40 Louis's for his Support; his Grew were alfo left here. © At the Entrance into this Harbour the Triumph ftruck upon. a Rock, but receivd no Damage : Th's Entrance, called Gonlet, is very dangerous on Account of the Number of Rocks which lie on each Side under Water, though the Harbour is certainly the beft ii France. The Mouth of the Harbour is defended by a ftrong Caftle; the Town | is well fortified, and has a Citadel for its farther Defence, which is of confiderable Strength. In_ 1694 the Englifh attempted a Defcent, but did noe find their Market, for they were beat off with the Lofs of their General, and a great many Men. From hence the Triumph return’d to Rachel, andin a Month after our Voluntiers, who went on board the Vittoire, took their Departure for Aartineco and Guadalupa;, they met with nothing in their Voyage thither worth noting. pat ; “J fhall only obferve, that. Signior Caraccioli, who was as ambitious.as he was irreligious, had, by this Time, madea perfett Deft of Adiffon, and thereby convine’d him, that all Religion was no other than human Policy, and dhew’d: him that. the Law of — Mofes was no: mote than what were neceflary, as well for the Prefervation. as the Governing of the - Peoples afor Inftance,-faid he, the African Negroes _ ” pcarsey hich nn enn pinansin ainsi Captain Balladine, who took theGlafs, faid it was | hes Royal, a Briftol Ship which ‘left Famaicain — sarin ata nc Tae re Tn ne ae ev : . a =, Be ae . : Of Captain Misson,. — 9 never_heard of the Inftitution of Circumeifion ey is faid to be the Sign of the Covenant made etween God and this People, and yet they cir= one their Children, doubtlef$ for the fame He Fo the Fems and other Nations do, who inha- = : Southern Climes, the Prepuce confolida- fe & the perfpired Matter, which is of a fatal Con- el In fhort, he ran through all the Cere- lichen oo the Jewifh, Chriftian and Aabometan Re- act ee convinced him thefe were, as might be tte by the Abfurdity of many, far from being i mutions of Men infpired; and that Mofes, in. 1s Account of the Creation, was guilty of noi Blunders ; and the Miracles, both in the New and eh fp otnaen, inconfiftent with Reafon. That a ad given us this Bleffing, to make Ufe of for Our prefent and future Happinefs, and what- eve i i ve. Was contrary to it, notwithftanding their School Diftin&tions of. contrary and above Reafon, muft be falfe This Reaf 2 . 4 is a irft Caufé of all Things, an Ba Bese ie » and our Reafon will alfo that he muft be eternal, and. as thie ue ae hor of Aa ft be infinitely per- If fo, he can be fubje& to no Paffions, and nei-< ther loves nor hates h ther 5 he muft be ever the fa and cannot rafhly do to Day what he fhall Ba to Morrow. He mutt be erfect! h % quently nothing can add 5 an pee i ve jianduillity, and though it becomes us to adore im, yet can our Adorations neither augment, nor ou Sins take from this Happinefs. ie atid oth py pumas on this Head are too long, WOERWA, ngerous to tranflate; and as they are mice P with great Subtlety, they may be per- 1S to weak Men, who cannot difcover their *, who finding *em agreeable to their at “% Incl. 10 Of Captain MIsson. Inclinations, and would be glad to thake off the Yoke of the Chriftian Religion, which galls and curbs their Paffions, would not give them{elves the Trouble to examine them to the Bottom, but give into what pleafes, glad of finding fome Excufe.te their Confciences. Though as his Opinion of a future State has nothing in it which impugns the Chriftian Religion, I fhall fet it down in few Werds. ‘ That reafoning Faculty, fays he, which we © perceive within us, we call the Soul, bute what € that Soul is, is unknown to us. It may die with € the Body, or it may furvive. I am of Opinion © itsimmortal;, but to fay that this Opinion is the ¢ Di&ate of Reafon, or only the Prejudice of Edu- € cation, would, | own, puzzle me. If it is immor-~ € tal, it muft be an Emanation from the Divine © Being, and confequently at its being feparated © fromthe Body, will return to its firft Principle, © if not contaminated. Now, my Reafon tells me, € if itis ettranged from its firft Principle, which € isthe Deity, all the Hells of Man’s Invention can “never yield Tortures adequate to fuch a Ba- _ © nifhment. As he had privately held thefe Difcourfes a- mong the Crew, he had gained a Number of Profe- tytes, who look’d upon him asa new Prophet rifen up to reform the Abufes in Religion ; anda great Number being Rochellers, and, as yet, tainted with Calvanifm, his Doftrine was the more readily em- bracd. When he had experienced the Effects of his religious Arguments, he fell upon Government, and fhew’d, that every Man was born free, and had as much Right to what would fupport him, as to, the Air he refpired. A contrary Way of arguing would be accufing the Deity with Cruelty and In- juftice, for he brought into the World no Man to pafs a Life of Penury, and to miferably want a i 4 necef- teasing cme r : Of Captain’ MISSON. 11 eeffary Support; that the vaft Difference between Man and Man, the one wallowing in Luxury, and the other in the moft pinching Neceffity, was Owing only to Avarice and Ambition on the one land, and a pufilanimous Subjection on the other ; that at firft no other than a Natural was known, a paternal Government, every Father was the Head, the Prince and Monarch of his Family, and Obedi- ence to fuch was both juft and eafy, for a Father had a compaffionate Tendernefs for his Children; but Ambition creeping in by Degrees, the ftronger Family fet upon and enflaved the Weaker; and this additional Strength over-run a third, by eve- ry Conqueft gathering Force to make others, and this was the firft Foundation of Monarchy. Pride encreafing with Power, Man ufurped the Preroga- tive of God, over his Creatures, that of depriving them of Life,which wasa Privilege no one had over his own; for as he did not come into the World by his own Eleétion, he ought to ftay the deter, mined Time of his Creator: That indeed, Death given in War, was by the Law of Nature allowable, becaufe it is for the Prefervation of our own Lives ; but no Crime ought to be thus punifhed, nor in- deed any War undertaken, but in Defence of our natural Right, which is fuch a Share of Earth as is neceffary for our Support. i Thefe Topicks he often declaimed on, and very often advifed with AZigon about the fetting up for ‘themfelves ; he was as ambitious as the other, and as refolute. Caraccioli and Miffon were by this ex- pett Mariners, and very capable of managing a Ship: Caraccioli had founded a great many of the Men on this Subjett, and found them very incline. able to liften to him. An Accident happen’d which gave Caraccioli a fair Opportunity to put his De. , figns in Execution, and he laid Hold of it; they went off Adartinico on a Cruize, and met with the Ee ee ee zi Winchelfea, \ oo? $cc acer : | x nae 12 Of Captain Misson. Of Captain: MIsson 3 a i very Thing he Winchelfea, an Englifh Man of War of 40 Guns, | eer cantata = Ce pedi e Stay ade commanded by Captain Jones; they made for each +. lawfully make War ws all the World: fince it woud other, and a very {mart Engagement followed, the © deprive ‘him of that Liberty to which he had a firft Broadfide killed the Captain, fecond Captain, Right by the Laws of coe : That he might in and the three Lieutenants, on Board the Vitboire, Ve pg become:as great as Alexander was to the Per= and left only the Mafter, who would have ftruck, flare and by encreafing his Forces by his Caps | but Adiffom took up the Sword, order’d Caraccioli to tures. he would every Day ftrengthen the Juftice of att as Lieutenant, and encouraging the Men fought his Caufe for the teas! Bowe is always in the | the Ship fix Glaffes, when by fome Accident, the Right. hat Harry the Fourth and Harry the Ses Winchelfea blew up, and not aManwas favedbut venth, attempted ‘and fucceeded jn their Enter- Lieutenant Franklin, whom the French Boats took prizes on the Crown of England,yet their Forces did. ) up, and he died in two Days, None ever knew not equal his. Atahomet with a few Camel Drivers; . before this Manutcript fell’ into my Hands how founded the Ottoman Bmpire; and Darius, with no | the Wiachelfea was loft; for her Head being driven more than fix or feven Companions got. Poffefi- afhore at Antesoa, and a great Storm having hap- on of that OB Perfia t F pend a few Days before her Head was found, ig In a Word he faid: fo ?much that Miffor red was concluded, that fhe founder’d in that Storm, folved to follow hisAdvice, and calling up all Hands, After this Engageinent, Caraccioli came to Afiffon _ he told them, ¢ That a great Number of them had and faluted him Captain, and defired to know if | ¢ refolved with him upon a Life of Liberty, and he would chufe a momentary or a lafting Com. | and had done: him the Honour to creaté him mand, that. he muft now determine, forathisRe- —_¢ Chief: That he defigned to force’ no Man, and turn to Martinico it would be too late; and he _ ©be guilty of that Injuitice he blamed’in eelieng’ might depend upon the Ship he fought andtaved “§ therefore, if any were averfe to the following his being given to another, and they would think him S OAoreane iwhieh he promifed fhould be the fame well rewarded ifmadea Lieutenant, which Pieceof re Sp E re themfelves, Juitice he doubted: That he had his Fortune in $ pie Racoon i Orbe Rar 9 they might bis a meh ie might eine KECP OR gt 5° 5, | * return with Conveniency ; ” having made an End; if he made Choice of the latter, he muft never they one and all eryed, Vive le Capitain Miffon’ et epi. CADE Tie, would court him, to accept. hes fon Lieutenant le Scavant Caraccioli, God blefs Capt. Favours: That he oughe to fet before his Byes his - Miffow and his learned Lieutenant Caraccioli. Miffon Circumftances, as a younger Brother of a good 3 ; . t onferr’d upon Family, but nothing to fupport his Charatter ; juanked them for the Honour bey oan and the many Years he mutt ferve at the Expence him, and promifed he would ufe the Power t ey of his Blood before he could make any Figure in gave for the publick Good only, and hoped, as eae oe . th 1e their Liberty, the the World; and confider the wide Difference. be- wena pls sa abhi! sito sfefenpics A ent tween the ee ape ang peng \sosimanied S 9 ftand by him in what fhould be found expedient’ That he might with the Ship, he had under Foot. ; TAM. their Friend and and the brave Fellows under Command, bid Dees | for the Good of all; that he was th Companion, ase Of Captain Mrsgon, Companion, and fhould never exert his Power, or | think himfelf other than their Comrade, but when the Neceffity of Affairs fhould oblige him. They fhouted a fecond Time, vive le Capitain ; he, after this, defired they would chufe their fab- altern Officers, and give them Power to confult and _ conclude wpa what might be for the common Intereft, and bind themfelves down by an Oath to agree to what fuch Officers and he ‘hould de- termine: This they readily gave into. The School- - Mafter they chofe for fecond Lieutenant, Jean Be- face they nominated for third, and the Boatfwain, — and a Quarter-Mafter, named Matthieu le Tondu, with the Gunner, they defired might be their Re- prefentatives in Council. The Choice was approved, and that every Thing , might pafs methodically, and with general Appro- bation, they were called into the great Cabbin, and the Queftion put, what Courfe they fhould fteer ? The Captain propofed the Spanifh Coaft as the moft probable to afford them rich Prizes : This was agreed upon by all. asked what Colours they fhould fight under, and advifed Black as moft terrifying ; but Caraccioli ob- jected, that they were no Pyrates, but Men who were refolved to affert that Liberty which God The Boatfwain then — and Nature gave them, and own no Subjection to _ any, farther than was for the common Good of. all; That indeed, Obedience ty of their Funétion; were vigilant Guardians of the Peoples Rights. and Liberties; faw that Juftice was equally diftributed ; were Barriers againit the Rich and Powerful, when they attempted to op- prefs the Weaker ; one Hand to grow immenfely rich, either by_ his own or his Anceftors Encroachments; nor on the other, any to be wretchedly miferable, either by iss falling | to Governors was ne- — ceflary, when they knew and axted up to the Du- ; when they fuffered none of the _ | 3 | ¢ % t. i + _ Of Captain Misson. ts: falling into the Hands of Villains, unmerciful Cre- ditors, or other Misfortunes. While he had Eyes impartial, and allowed nothing but Merit to diftin- guih between Man and Man; and inftead of being a Burthen to the People by his luxurious Life, he was by his Care for, and Protection of them, a real Father, and in every Thing atted with the equal and impartial Juftice of a Parent: But whea a Governor, who is the Minifter of the People, thinks himfelf rais’d to this Dignity, that he may {pend his Days in Pomp and Luxury, looking upon his Subjegts as fo many Slaves, created for his Ufe and Pleafure, and therefore leaves them and their Affairs to the immeafurable Avarice and Tyran- ny of fome one whom he has chofen for his Fa- vourite, when nothing but Oppreffion, Poverty, and all the Miferies of Life flow from fuch an Ad- miniftration ; that he lavithes away the Lives and Fortunes of the People, either to gratify his Am- bition, or to fupport the Caufe of fome neighbour- ing Prince, that he may in Return, ftrengthen his Hands fhould his People exert themfelves in De- fence of their native Rights ; or fhould he run in- to-unneceflary Wars, by the rafh and thoughtlefs Councils of his Favourite, and not able to make Head againg the Enemy he has rafhly or wanton- ly brought upon his Hands, and buy a Peace (which is the prefent Cafe of France, as every one knows, by fupporting King James, and afterwards proclaiming his Son) and drain the Subject ; fhould the PeoplesTrade be wilfully neglected, for private Interefts, and while their Ships of War lie idle in their Harbours, fuffer their Veffels to be taken; and the Enemy not only intercepts all Commerce, but infults their Coafts + It {peaks a generous and great Soul to fhake off the Yoak; and if we can- not redre{s our Wrongs, withdraw from fharing the Mileries which meaner Spirits fubmit to, fate a eee Ae ea ee corg 16 Of Captain Mrsson. Of Captain MIssON. 17 Seotitto’ Yield 16 this TyidanyceSach Meniaee wl with a general Confent and Applaufé of the whole and, if the World, as Experience may convince us Crew: All but the wounded being upon Deck. it will, makes War upon us, the Law of Nature Atffon from the Baracade, {poke to the following . empowers us not only to be on the defenfive, but « Purpofe, ‘ That fince they had unanimoufly refol~ alla Sicha waar elrades iA enaceleatiniaée ce ved to feize upon and defend their Liberty, ceed upon the fame Ground with Pyrates, who are ¢ Men of diffolute Lives aad no Principles, let us « {corn to take their Colours: Ours is a brave, 4 juft, an innocent, and a noble Caufe; the Caule of Liberty. I therefore advife a white Enfign, with - Liberty painted in the Fly, and if you like the Motto, 2 Deo a Libertate, for God and Liberty, as an Emblem of our UprightnefS and Refolution: The Cabbin Door was left open, and the Bulk Head which was of Canvas rowled up, the Steer age being full of Men, who lent an attentive Ear, they cried, Liberty, Liberty, we are free Men Vive the brave Captain Millon and the noble Lieutenant Ca- raccioli, This fhort Council ‘breaking up, every” Thing belonging to the deceas’d Captain, and the other Officers, and Men loft in’ the Engagement, — was brought upon Deck and over-hawled; the Money ordered to be put into a Cheft, and the Carpenter to clap on a Padlock for; and give a Key to, every one of the Council: Afiffon telling: them, all fhould be in common, and the particu- lar Avarice of no one fhould defraud the Pub- lick. | '. When the Plate Monfieur Fourbin had, was go- ing to the Cheft, the Men unanimoufly cried out avaft, keep that out for the Captain’s Ufe, as a Prefent from his Officers and Fore-maft Men. AGi{- fon thanked them, the Plate was returned to the” great Cabbin, and the Cheft fecured according to Orders: MMiffin then ordered his Lieutenants and other Officers to examine who among the Men, were in moft Want of Cloaths, and to diftribute ~ thofe of the dead Men impartially, which was done / with ¢ which ambitious Men had ufurped, and that this _ Could not be efteemed by impartial Judges other than a juft and brave Refolution, he was under : an Obligation to recommend to thetn a brother- E ly Love to each other; the Banifhment of all % private Piques and Grudges, and a ftritt Agree- ¢ ment and Harmony among themfelves: That in throwing off the Yoak of Tyranny of which the Aftion {poke an Abhorrence, he hoped none ; Would follow the Example of Tyrants, and turn _ his Back upon Juftice s for when Equity was trodden under Foot, Mifery, Confufion, and'mu- * tual Diftruft naturally followed. ~He alfo ad- viled them to remember there was a Supream, the Adoration of which, Reafon and Gratitude prompted us, and our own Interefts would engage us (as itis beft to be of the fureft Side, and after- Life was allowed poffible) to conciliate— That he was fatisfied Men who were born and bred in’ Slavery, by which their Spirits were broke, and ¢ _ Were incapable of fo generous a Way of thinking, who, ignorant of their Birth-Right, and the Sweets of Liberty, dance to the Mufick of their Chains, which was, indeed, the greater Part of the Inhabi- tants of the Globe, would brand this generous Crew with the invidious Name of Pyrates, and think it Meritorious, to be inftrumental in their Deftruétion. —— Self-Prefervation therefore, and not a cruel Difpofition, obliged him to declare War againft all fuch a8 fhould refufe him the Entry of their Ports, and againft all} who fhould not immediately fur- render and give up what their Neceffities requi- red but in a more particular Manner againft all Vor. Ik | c - " Europeun as oa Of Captain MISSON. ) European Ships and Veflels, as concluded implacablé Enemies. And I do now, faid he, declare fuch Wary and,-at the fame time, recommend to you my Comrades a bumane and generous Behaviour, towards your Prifoners i} which will appear by fo much more the Effetts of a noblt Soul, as me are fatisfied we fhould not meet the fart Treatment fhould our ill Fortune, or more properly our Dif union, or want of Courage, give us up to their Mercy. t After this, he required a Muffer fhould be made and there were able Hands two Hurdred, and chit ty five fick and wounded ; as they were mufter’d they were fworn. After Affairs were thus {ettled) they shaped their Courfe for the Spanifh Weft-Indies but refolved, in the Way, to take a Week or tet Days Cruize in the Windward Paffage from ja maica, becaufe moft Merchant Men, which were good Sailors and did not ftay, for Convoy, took this as the fhorter Cut for England. Of St. Chriftophers they took an Englifh Sloop becalmed, with their Boats ; they took out of hel a couple of Puncheons of Rum, and half a doze? Hogtheads of Sugar (fhe was a Nem England Sloopy bound for Boffon) and without offering the lealt Violence to the Men, or ftripping them, they. le! 5 her go.. The Mafter of the Sloop was Thomas Bul’ ler, who owned, he never met with fo candid a Enemy as the French Man of War, which took him the Day he left St. Chriftophers 5 they mé with no other Booty in their Way, till they cam upon their Station, when after three Days, they ’ faw_a Sloop which had the Impudence to give them Chace; Captain Miffon asked what could: b* the Meaning that the Sloop ftood for them? Ov! ot the Men, who was ‘acquainted with the Wel, Indies, told him, it was a $amaica Privateer, ave he fhould not. wonder, if he clapp’d him aboard T am, faid he, no Stranger to their Way of work™ . ing, and this defpicable Fellow, as thofe who fee: 4 , ry al : endeavouring ‘to cut their Lafhing and get off: Of Captain MISSON. 1g know a: Yamaica Privateer may think him, it 1s fen to one will give you fome Trouble. It now stows towards Evening, and you'll find as foon as he has difcovered your Force, he'll keep out of the Reach of your Guns till the 12 a-Clock Watch 1s changed at Night, and he’ll then attempt to clap you aboard, with Hopes to carry you in the urry: Wherefore Captain, if you will give me Leave to advife you, let every Man have his {mall Arms; and at twelve, let the Bell ring as ufual, and rather more Noife than ordinary be made, as if the one Watch was turning in, and the other Out, in a Confufion and Hurry, and Tl engage he will venture to enter his Men. The Fellow’s Ad- Uicé was approved and refolved upon, and the Sloop work’d, as he faid the would, for upon com- avg near enough to make diftin&ly the Force of * the Viéoire, on her throwing out French Colours, the, the Sloop, clapp'd upon a Wind, the /iitoire gave Chace, but without Hopes of gaining upon her ; the went fo well to Windward, that fhe cou’d {pare the Ship fome Points in her Sheet, and yet wrong her: At Dusk of the Even, the French had loft Sight of her, but about Bleven at Night, they faw her hankering up their Windward Bow, which confirmed the Sailors Opinion, that fhe would at- tempt to board them, as fhe did at the prétended Change of the Watch; there being little or no Wind, fhe lathed ‘to the Bow-Sprit of the Vidtoire, and enter’d her Men, who were very quietly ta- Kea, as they enter’d and tumbled down the Fore- h, where they were received by others, and bound without Noife, not one of the Privateers kilied, few hurt, and only one Frenchman. wounded. _» The Viétoire feeing the better Part of the Sloop’s Men f ecured, they boarded in their Turn, when the Privateer’s fufpefing fome Stratagem, were C2 Thug Peg Of Captain MIsson. "20 Of Captain Misson. Thus the Englifiman caught a Tartar. The Prifot 21 _ ©xpired, he and his Men were put on Board thei* Own Sloop. At going over the Ship’s Side Ramfey «, begg’d Monfieur ay; Id allow him Powder ners being all fecured, the Captain charged ca S8 pleut Miffon would allow hi -Men not to difcover, thro’'a Defire of augmenting their Number, the Account they were upon. ‘ _ found it m not but allow him a brave Fellow, to venture up 3 3 hated religious, on a Ship of his Countenance, and for that fon he fhould meet Treatment which Men of his for a falute, by way of Thanks ; but he anfwered | bu ane Ceremony was needlefs, and He ean i , €@ n0 other Return than that of keeping his ord, The next Morning Morfieur Miffon called for ri which indeed p wea prot i P ng Word. Captain of the Privateer, he told him, he could ore to their Advantage to have been as At parting Ramfty gave the Ship three Chears, — Proteffion feldom afforded the Prifoners they mad@ and Mifon had the Complaifance to return one, _ which; Ray/e anfwering with three more, made — He asked him how long he had been out, whab fe Way for Famaica, and at the Fatt End of the Ifland Met with the Diana, who, upon a the beft of was his Name, and what he had on Board? Hé anfwered he was but juft come out, that he wa) _ Advice, turn’d back, the firft Sail he had met with, and fhou’d havé : ; ¢ . The. Vittoire fteer’d for Carthagene, off which thought himfelf altogether as lucky not to hav’ Port they ctuifed {ome Days, but meeting with {poke with him; that his Name was Harry Ram Sod! Powil nothing in the Seas, they made for Porto Bello fey, and what he had on Board were Rags, Po _ their Way they met with two Dutch Traders, who der, Ball, and fome few half Anchors of Rut had Let a ters of Mart, and were juft come upon the Ramfey was ordered into the Gun-Room, and 4 Coaft, the one had 20, the,other 24 Guns; Asi es allantry ;_ ail €y were mann’d a Peak, he durft not ven- called in again, when Captain Miffon told hit) ture to board either of them, for fear of being at me boarded by the other. His Weight A gave him a great Advantage over the " plundering ofany Thing, but what Prudence obliz Dutch, though they were two to one ; befides, their 4 Bufinefs, as they had Cargoes, was. to get off, if he would give him his Word and Honour, am poffible, wherefore they made a running Fight, 0 f they took Care to ftick clofe to one Privateer Account in fix Months after they le another, ; They maintained the Fight for above fix Hours, when Miffon, enraged at this Obftinacy, and fear- a Maft, or from him, ed to fink the larger Ship’ of the - two, and accordingly ordered his Men to bring Bos all Council being held in the publick Manner aforefaidy porelon 1% engaged, them, and they defended themfelv _ the Bulk Head of the great Cabbin rowled up, O# great-Dedl of Refoletion and G with a their Conclufion, the Captain of the Privateer w# and as th ‘he would return him his Sloop, and reftore his the fame Ti and his Men to their Liberty, without {tripping of of Mettal ged him to, their Ammunition and Small-Arms, 1 his Men to take an Oath, not to go out on th? though _ him: That he did not defign to continue thay Station above a Week longer, at the Expiration 0 which Time he would let them go, Ramfty, who had a new Sloop, did not _ Lop-Matt, by the board, they would get '’ this Fav ur, which he thanked him for, and pro He was refolve ~ mifed puntually to comply with the Injunétio"t _ Which his Men as readily wore to, tho” they b# r , no hoes to keep ,the Oath. The Time ae _ ing, if by Accident they fhould bring expel C37 3 in ‘tne Englifh fearch of ’em, and had met two Dutch Men, one a : which he had funk, the other he made Prize 0! 22 Of Captain Misson. all their Guns to bear a Midthip,: then running: _Clofe along Side of him, to raife their Mettal, hi Orders being punttually obey’d, he pour’d in s Broad Side, which open’d fuch a Gap in the Dutch Ship, that fhe went dire&ly to the Bottom, and every Man perifh’d. oh hes: _ He then mann’d his Bowfprit, brought his Sprit” fail Yard fore and aft, and refolved to board the other, which the Dutch perceiving, and: terrified with the unhappy Fate of their Comrade, though! a farther Refiitarce vain, and immediately ftruch Miffin gave them good Quarters, though he w# evraged at the Lofs of 13 Men killed outright befide 9 wounded, of which’s died. They found o . board a great Quantity of Gold and Silver Lach bs ocade Silks, Silk Stockings, Bails of Broad-Cloath Bazes of all Colours, and Ofnabrughs. t A Confultation being held, «it was refolved Cap tain Afffon thould ‘take the Nanie of Fourbin, an returning to Carthagene, difpofe of his Prize, at fet his Prifoners aihoar. Accordingly. they ply? to the Eaftward, and came to an Anchor: betwee! Boca Chieca Fort, and the Town, for they did not think it expedient to enter the Harbour. The Bargh was manned, and Caraccioli, with the Name Oo" D’ Aubigny, the firt Lieutenant,who was killed in i) Engagement with the Winchelfea, and his Commi fion in his Pocket, went afhore with a Letter tt the Governor, fign’d Fourbin, whofe Charagter, f ‘fear of the worft, was exactly counterfeited. Tb! Purport of his Letter was, that having difcretion® ry Orders to cruize for three Months, and hearith infefted his Coaft, he was come if That his limited ‘Time being near expired, he fhoul! be obliged to his Excellency, if he would fend a board him fuch Merchants as were willing total ‘ gh t | Of Captain MIssoNn. — 23 the Ship and Cargoe off his Hands, of which ‘he . had fent the DutchInvoice. Don Fofeph de la Zerda, the then Governor, received the Lieutenant (who fent back the Barge ‘at landing) very civilly, and agreed to take the Prifoners aihoar, and do every Thing was required of him ; and ordering frefh Provifions and Sallading to be got ready as a Pre- fent for the Captain, he fent for fome. Merchants - who were very ready to go on board, and agree for the Ship and Goods’; which they did, for two and fifty thoufand Pieces of Right. The next Day the PrilCnors were fet afhoar 3 arich Piece of Brocade Which was refery’d, fent to the Governor for a Prefent, a Quantity of freth Provifion bought and brought on board; the Money paid bythe: Mer- chants, the Ship and Goods deliver’d, and the /7- faire, at the Dawn of the following Day, got under Sail. It may be wonder’d how fuch-Difpatch could be made, but the Reader muft take ‘Notice,’ thefe Goods. were fold by the Dutch Invoice, which the Merchant of the Prize affirmed: was genuine. | -hhall obferve, by the by, that the Wiéfoire was the French Man of War which Admiral Wager fent the Kingfton in fearch of, and being afterwards falfly inform?d, that the was join’d by another of feven- ty Guns; and that they cruiz’d together between ithe Capes, order’d the Severn up to. Windward, to affift, the King/fon, which had like to have prov’d Very fatal ; for thefe two Englifh Men of War, com- manded by Captain Trevor and Captain Pudnor, meet=- ing in the Night, had prepared to engage, each ta- king the other for the Enemy. The Kingfton’s Men not having a good Look-out, which muft be attri- ‘buted to the Negligence of the Officer of the Watch, did not {ee the Severy till fhe was juft upon them >, but, by good Luck, to Leeward, and ply- 38 UP, with all the Sail fhe could crowd, and’ a clear Ship. This put the Kingjfon in fuch Confu- . } C4 fion, i i q A)..¢ 24 Of Captain MIsson. | fion, that when the Severn hal’d, no Anfwer was res turn'd, for none heard her. She was got under the — Kingfton’s Stern, and Captain Pudnor ordered to hale for the third and laft Time, aud if no Anfwer was return’d, to give her a Broadfide, The Noife on Board the King/ton was now a little ceas’d, and Cap- tain Trevor, who ,was on the Poop with a fpeaking Trumpet to hale the Severn, by good Luck heard her hale him, and anfwering the Kington, and ask- ingythe Name of the other ‘Ship, prevented the Damage, 5. ae (300 They cruifed together fome Time, and meeting !nothir g which anfwer’d their Information, return’d -to'Jemaica, as 1 dhall to my Subject, begging Par- don. for this;as lthought,-neceffary Digreffion.’ Don Yuan de la Zerda told the Captain in a Let~ was then lying at. Port a Bello, and fhould be glad che could keep.her Company. till the was off the iCoaft, .That.fhe would fail in eight or ten Days — for the Havanna ; and that, if his Time would per- emit him, he would fend an Advice-Boat. That fhe vhad on Board the Value of 800,000 Pieces of Bight — -iny Silver and Bar Gold. Adio return’d Anfwer, “that he believ’d_he fhould be excus’d if he ftretch- ed his Orders, foz,a few Days; and that he would deruize off the Ifle of Pearls, and Cape Gratias a Dios, -and give for, Signal to the Gallion, his fpreading a white Enfign in his Fore-Top-Maft Shrouds, the ~ cluing up his Fore-Sail,. and the firing one Gun to Windward, and two to Leeward, which he fhould -anfwer by-letting run and hoifting his Fore-Top- > Sail three'times,'.and the firing as magy Guns to » Teeward... Don Fofeph, extreamly pleafed with this Gomplaifance, fent.a Boat exprefs to advife the St«— Sofeph, but she was already failed two Days, *con- trary to.che Governor of Carthagene’s Expettation, ~and this Adyice Captain Axion had from the sie ss CNS : ‘which © iter,-that the St..Jo/eph, a Gallion of feventy Guns, “don from Sa Re valued mo Of Captain MISSON. 25 which returning with an Anfwer, faw the Viffoire m the Offin, and {poke to her. It was then re- folved to follow the St. Fofeph, and accordingly they - fteer’d for the Havanna, but by what Accident they did not overtake her is unknown. ea forgot to tell my Reader, on Board the Dutch 1p were fourteen French Hugonots, whom JMiffon thought fit to detain, when they were at Sea, AZi[- ir called ’em up, and propofed to ’em their ta- “xing on; telling them at the fame Time, he left wu their Choice, for he would have no fore’d = €n5 and that if they all, or any of them, dif ‘ pDrored the Propofal, he would either give ’em the firft Veffel he met that was fit for "em, or fet bt athoar on fome inhabited Coaft ; and therefore Did “em take two Days for Confideration before ‘Ahey returned an Anfwer ; and, to encourage ’em, aeccalted all Hands up, and declar’d, that if any “an repented him of the Courfe of Life he had chofen, his juft Dividend fhould be counted to im, and he would fet him on Shoar, either near the Havanna, or fome other convenient Place; but Rot one accepted the Offer, and the fourteen Pri- Sners unanimoufly refolved to join in with ’em ; “to which Refolution, no doubt, the Hopes of pes of 2. Lee from the St, Fo/eph, "and ishie Offer, of greatly contributed. At the Entrance of the Gulph they {pied and j came with a large Merchant Ship bound for Lon- maica , fhe had 20Guns, but no more ree Hands, that its not to be wonder’d at fhe 4B “ eo Refiftance, befides, fhe was deep laden with ef tition fhe had, about four thoufand Pieces | pee, ae dg Puncheons of Rum, and ten Hog- dhe Da ugar; and, without doing her any fur- Monfieur -Affon took out of ber what Mage, let her proceed her Voyage. What Hin this Prize was the Men he got, ' for “War, as were upon the grand Account, 26 Of Captain MIsson,. for the was carrying to Europe twelve French Priv’ foners, two of which were neceffary Hands, being” a Carpenter and his Mate. They were of Bour- deaux, from whence they came with the Pomecha- traine, which was taken by the Afaremaid off Perit” Guavers, after an obftinate Refiftance, in which they loft forty Men 5 but they were of Opinion: thé Maremaid could not have taken ’em, having but four Guns lefs than fhe had, which was made_ amends for, by their having» about thirty Hands: i ‘On the contrary, had not ‘the Guernfey. come’ up; they thought of boarding and carrying the Adare- maid. Thefe Men very willingly came into Cap- tain Miffon’s Meafures. ug Thefe Men, who had been ftripp’d to the Skin, ; begg’d Leave to make Reprifals, but the Captait” would not fuffer them, : though he told the Matter of the Prize, as he protected him and his Men, he thought it reafonable thefe French fhould be cloath- ‘ ed: Upon this the Mafter contributed of his er and every Man bringing up his Cheft, thought themfelves very well off in fharing with them oné — half Though Afiffon’s Ship pafs'd for a French Man 0 ; ans nid Ggherabes in letting the: Prize gO, gave the Englifh Grounds’ to fufpe& the Truths Brie: the eh nor Cargoe being of Ufe to fuch - | hy When they had loft all Hopes of the St. Sofep’y they coafted sie the North-Side of Cuba, and fe i Vidloire growing now foul, they ran into .a Lan , Jock’d Bay on the Eaft North-Eaft Point, meet, ; they hove her down by Boats and Guns,. thoug? they could not ‘pretend to heave her Keel out 5 they fcraped and tallowed as far as’ they : othe 3 ey) for this Reafon, many of ne ‘ yepented they had let the laft Prize go, by whic they might have careened, Lie | Wher 4 i ‘ _ Neceflaries. Of Captain MISSON.: 27 _ When they had righted the Ship, and put every Thing on Boatd, they confulted upon the Courfe they fhould fteer, : Upon this the Council divided. The Captain and” Caraccioli were for ftretching Over to the African, and the others ‘for the New- England Coaft, alledging, that the Ship ‘had a foul Bottom, and was not fit for the Voyage ; and that if they met with ‘contrary Winds, and bad Wea- ther, their Stock ‘of Provifion might fall fhort ; and that as they were not far from the Englifh Settlement of Czrolina, they might either on that or the Coaft of Virginia, Maryland, Penfyluania, New- York, or New-England, intercept Ships which traded to the Iflands with Provifions, and by that Means provide themfelves with Bread, Flower, and other An Account’ of ‘the’ Provifions were taken, and finding they ‘had’ Provifions for four Months. Captain Aiffon called’ all Hands upon Deck, and told them, as the Council differed in the Courle they fhould fteer, he thought ‘it reafon- able to have it put to the Vote of the whole Com. pany. ‘That for his Part, he was’ for going to the Coats of Guiney, where ‘they might reafouably ex- pet to meet with valuable Prizes 5 but thould they fail in their Expeftation one Way, they would be fure of having it anfwered another ; for they could then throw themfelves in ‘that.of the Ea India Ships, outward bound dreined Europe’ of what Money they drew from Ameriea. He then gave the Sen- timents of thofe who were againft him, and their Reafons, and bege’d that every one would give his Opinion «and Vote according as he thought moft conducive to the Good of all. That he should be far from ta he had Propofed, fince he had no private Views to ferve. The Majority of Votes fell os the ‘Caps fain’s Side, and they accordingly dhaped° their Courfe Affe - and he need not tell them, that ae king it ill if they fhould reje& what - 28 ‘Of Captain Mrgson. Courfe for the Coat nothing remarkable happened. On their Arrival on the Gold-Coaft, they fell in with the Nicuwftade of Amfterdam, a Ship of 18 Guns, commanded by Capt. Blaes, Glaffes: This Ship they kept with them, putting on Board 40 Hands, and bringing all the Prifoners on Board the Viétoire, they were Forty three in Number ; they left Am/terdam with Fifty fix, feven were killed in the Engagement, and they. had loft Yix by sienels and Accidents, one falling over- poard, and one being taken by a Shark going overs board in a Calm, : ae Japa ; . The Niewmftad: had fome Gold-Duft on Board, to the Value of about 2000 1. Sterling, and a few Slaves to the Number of Seventeen, for fhe had but begun to Trade; the Slaves werea ftrengthen- ing of their Hands, for the Captain order’d them to be cloathed out of Dutch Mariners Chefts, and of Guiney, in which Voyage. who made a running Fight of five. i i ; * i i Disesiss & told his Men, ¢ That the Trading for thofe of our * own Species, cou’d never be agreeable to the Eyes * of divine Juftice: That no Man had Power of * the Liberty of another; and while thofe who — * profefs’d a more enlightened Knowledge of the — € Deity, fold Men like Beafts; they prov’d that — 5 * their Religion was no more than Grimace, and _ _ © that they differ’d from the Barbarians in Name _ © only, fince their Praéice was in nothing more * humane: For his Part, and he hop’d, he {poke * the Sentiments of all his brave Companions, he * had not exempted his Neck from the galling * Yoak of Slavery, and afferted his own Liberty, * to enflave others. That however, thefe Men “were diftinguifh’d from the Europeans by their * Colour, Cuftoms, or religious Rites, they were * the Work of the fame omnipotent Being, and en- © dued with equal Reafon: Wherefore, he defired x they might be treated like Freemen (for he A es Cera were eee eo te ae EE RES Of Captain MISSON. 29 * woud banith even the Name of Slavery from * among them)? and divided into Meffes among § them, to the End they might the fooner learn © their Language, be fenfible of the Obligation they ; had to them, and more capable and zealous to * defend that Liberty they owedto their Juftice and * Humanity. se This Speech of Aiffon’s was received with ge- -neral Applaufe, and the Ship rang with vive le Capitain Miffon, Long live Capt. Adiffor—— The “Negroes were divided among the French, one to a Mefs, who, by their Gefticulations, fhew’d they Were gratefully fenfible of their being delivered from their Chains. Their Ship growing very foul, and going heavily through the Water, they run in- to the River of Lagoa, where they hove her down, taking out fuch Planks as had fuffer’d moft by the Worms, and fubftituting new in their Room. After this they careened the Prize, and put out to Sea, fteering to the Southward, and keep- ing along the Coaft, but met with Nothing. All . this while, the greateft Decorum and Regularity was obferved on Board the Viéfoire ; but the Durch Prifoners Example began to lead ’em into Swear- ing and Drunkennefs, which the Captain remark- _ ing, thought it was beft to nip thefe Vices in the Bud 5 and calling both the French and Dutch upon Deck, he addrefs’d himfelf to the former, defiring their Captain, who fpoke French excellently well, - to interpret what he faid to thofe who did not un- derftand him. He told them, ‘ before he had the ‘the Misfortune of having them on Board, his -* Ears were never grated with hearing the Name © of the great Creator prophaned, tho’ he, to his © Sorrow, had. often fince heard his own Men * guilty of that Sin, which adminifter’d neither * Profit nor Pleafure, and might draw upon them § a fevere Punifhment: That if they had rage 3 os the faw this Verified:in BP fadon both Nations : Une Break in Fear of be- , Ship, for he cou'd attribute the Oaths and Curl? Fane of Punifhment, an © he had heard among his bra 1 * nothing but the odious i r the Ne > 4; iB feproach’d by their a tutti. Upon : Example of the Durch! _ _-hever mentioned him wegen ae fecond Dutch = 18 was not the only Vice they had intro” the Coatt of ee nee h confifted of Silk and ‘ € duced, tor before they were on. Board, his Mer Ship, the Cargo o > but he found by their beaftly Pat Oy! > Woolen Stuffs, Cloath, Mae Basic hae aa = degenerated intoBrutes by drow” Spice, and hard hifgte 3 Ba EoRine debe che Vidteir s ee Oa culty, which diftinguithes bea engaged her, but vent © ortuniely came in their SS © tween Man and Beaft. Reafon. That as he had fhe ftruck. ane sates a to the Pag lars: who , . * the Honour to command them, he could not f@ Way, and gave tha whole CrégeReBitt 66 Be on He tee aries Vices pence: Meek ook a lundered her of what was of * cere Concern, as he had a paternal Affection fot at Elbows: They p * them; and he fhould re & i funk her. =< h himfelf as neg Ufe to their own Ship, and then funk Proach himfelf. * le&ful of the common G C4 inety Pri on i ing about ninety Prifoners i i de The Captain having a ood, if he did not a a he Prize, with and as by the Poft which they Board, propoféd ithe giving them the 2 Rien . ¢ had honour’d’ him, he ‘was obliged to have # © watchful Eye o ‘ din r what was neceffary for their i es? they fhified ae 3 which being agre , d giv- ~ : ; he wa them away ; Me he Vitkoire, and gi © obliged to tell hee Sentiments were hl ‘ a sun "Provifion, Peay them eae s a in Coa i} 0, 3 ‘ fom ene eae cs ae waa ae 4 ments the Dutch ea AS Dele, bibaske d © them: Wherefore; his ‘bive Companions, ‘ . en ees’ mraate uit Fe, A ean ce > . 1 . F : WwW © was nee wou’d e oer, by ee, hee 4 Eleven Dutch came into nie ee rahe be arpeh ) saben e ne th rere M hear Liquor # _ _-Sail-makers, one a atin" reft he let go, not a | $ his Head, thould be brouser” the Geers whit irae ce ae Regula eae, | © ped and pickled. f, ‘3 ‘ le to the reft 0 little ‘furprifed i h they found among t s Ps Nene As to his Briss nthe a Sneed Ae rates Sat . } ; in 10n e § his Children, thofe gallant, thofe generous, noblé ; ae ‘ © and heroick Souls he had the Honour to com < ry : . r They 5 é : , at 7 7 5 to allow ‘a fmall Tim aig ion, and to co . ple% nfider how hat ast i 32 Of Captain Mrsson, They had now run the Length of Soldinia Bays about ten Leagues to the Northward of Tible Bay’ As here is good Water, fafe Riding, plenty of Fifth - and freth Provifion, to be got of the Natives fot the Merchandize they had on Board, it was refole i ved to ftay here fome little Time for Refrefhments ‘ th When they had the Bay open, they fpied a tall | Ship, which inftantly got under fail, and hove out Englifh Colours. The Viétoire made a clear Ships -and hove out her French Enfign, anda {mart Ene” Sagement began. The Englifh was anew Ship built for 40 Guns, though fhe had but 32 mounted, and Sh 90 Hands. Adiffon gave Orders for boarding, and” his Number of frefh Men he conftantly poured in, after an obftinate Difpute obliged the Englifh to fly 4 Th the Decks, and leave the French Mafters of theif d. Ship, who promifed, and gave them, good Quarters : and ftripp’d not a Man. : They found on Board the Prize fome Bales of Englifh Broad-Cloath, and about Sc0001. in Englifp cnt Pieces, and Spanifh Pieces of Eight. The 4 Englifh Captain was killed in the Engagement, and th 14 of hisMen: The French loft 12, which was nO i fmail Mortification, but did not however provoke them to ufe their Prifoners harfhly. Captain A4j- Sh as forry for the Death of the Commandery re he Bvied on the Shoar, and one of his pes being a Stone-Cutter, he raifed a Stone over hi Grave with thefe Words, 19 gift un brave Angloisy a Here liesa gallant Englifh Man; when he was bu-_ tied he made a tripple Difcharge of 50 {mall Army S$ red Minute Guns. : he Englifh, knowing whofe Hands they weré fallen into, charm’d with A!ifon’s Humanity, Ail of them, in 3 DaysSpace, defired to take on ie him. He accepted ’em, but at the fame 1 gave em to underftand, that in taking “e vila him they were not to expect they fhould pe - | - the South End of Madagafcar, and one of the Eng= Of Captain Misson.- —S> 33 dulged in a diffolute and immoral Life. He now divided his Company between the two Ships, and made Caraccioli Captain of the Prize, giving him Uiicers chofen by the publick Suffrage. ‘The 17 Negroes began to underftand a little French, and to be ufeful Hands, and in lefs than a Month all the eee Prifoners came over to him,” except He had two Ships well mann’d with refolute Fellows; they now doubled the Cape, and made lif Men telling Captain Miffon, that the European 1ps bound f Or Surat commonly touch’d at the Ifand of Johanna, he fent for Captain Curaccioli on Board, and it was €y accordingly failed on the Weft-Side of Azs- agafcar and off the Bay de Diego. About half Seas Over between that Bay and the Ifland of Miffon and his Prize; they found her finking’ by an unexpected Leak, andtook all her Men on Board, ough they could get little out of her before the went down. The Englifb, who were thus miracy. loufly faved from perifhing, defired to be fet on Oat at Johanna, where either a Dutch or Englifh Ship in a little Time, and the mean while they were fure of Relief They arrived at Johanna, and were kindly rece. _ ved by the Queen-Regent and her Brother, on ac. count of the Evglifh on the one Hand, and of their trength on the other i and hoped they might afift nn *g2ink the King of Mohila, who threaten’d hina with a Vifit, o — Q This they hop’d to meet with ARV AY ARV ABS RY PS AMS LAD AD 4} _tifh beyond all other Nations. ve Caraccioli did the Daughter of her Brother, wh? two rufty Fire-Locks, and three Piftols, he ft of Ball. 5 ! : . Of Captain M1sson: 33 34 Of Captain Misson. ; Bive him any Impediment, but Jet him get into This is an Vand. which is contiguous, ina oe the Heart of the Ifland, and he would take Care ner, to Fohanna, and lies about N.W. and by 3 to intercept their Return; but the Prince anfwer- from it. Cuaraccioli told Aiffon he might make bi ed, fhould he follow his Advice the Enemy would Advantage in ‘widening the Breach between thé do him and the Subjects an irreparable Damage; two little Monarchies, i Cocoa Walks, and for that Rea- and, by offering his Akash in deftroying the oY, fol we » : to that of Johanna, ma manner rule both, i} fon he muft endeavour to ftop his Progrefs. Upon thefe would court him as their Proteftor, af this Anfwer he asked the Englifh who were not un- thofe come to any Terms to buy his Friend, der his Command, if they were willing to join him by which Means he would hold the Ballance , ‘repelling the Enemies of their common Hoft; Power between th em. He followed this Advie and one and al! confenting, he gave them Arms, and and offered his Friendfhip and Affiftance to ef mixed them with his ow; Men, and about the fame. Queen, who very readily embraced it. .- q Number of Fohannians, T muft advife the Reader, that many of th! y “aecioli and the Queen’s Brother, Iland {peak Englifh, and that the Engli(h Men wil i é iti were of Atifin’s Crew, and his Interpreters, ( the Iland, whe them, their Captain, though not an Englifumt was their Friend. and Ally, anda Friend and Bi ther to the Yohanna Men, for they efteem the Ey the Mohilians with great Rafe, who were in the, Sreatett Confternation, to find their Retreat cut off |. by AMiffon’s Boats. The Fohannians, whom they They were fupplied by the Queen with, all LS had often molefied, were fo enraged, that they ceflaries of Life, and Miffon married her Sifters | Save Quarter to none, and out of 300 who made the Defcent, if Mdiffoo and Caraccioli had not inter- Pofed, not a Soul had efcaped ; 113 were taken Prifoners by his Men, and carried on. Board, his nifi’d with thirty Puzils, as many Pair of Pift® Ships, Thefe he fent fafe to Mohila, with a Me and gave him two Barrels of Powder, and i fage to the King, to defire he would make Peace : _ with his Friend and Several of his Men took Wives, and fome ‘ Armory, which, confiited before of no more tht = eek oe a : and Ally the King of Jobanna ; but _ that Prince, little affetted with the Service done quired their Share of the Prizes, which was ju him in the Prefervation of his Subjeéts, fent him given them, they defigning to fettle in this If a Word he took Laws from none, and knew when te but the Number of thefe did not exceed t ¢ make War and Peace without his Advice, which which Lofs was repaired by thirty of the Cl Whe neither asked nor wanted. Adiffon, irritated by (they had faved from perithing) coming in to hil! this tude A EUS } afwer, refolved to transfer the Wag in< While they paft their Time in all manwef j to his own Country, and accordingly fet fail for Diverfions the Place would afford them, as ao Mohila, with about 100 Fohanna Men. The Shoar; ing, feafting, and vifiting the Ifland, the King on Sight of the Ships, was filled with Men to hins Mohila made a Defcent, and alarm’d the wi et a Defcént if intended, but the great Gung Country. Adffon advifed the Queen’s Brother no! Bz foon Ay Of Captain Mrsson. 37 _ Courage of the Mohilians, and make them irrecon- Cilable Enemies to the Yohannians, and intirely 36 Of Captain Mrsson, ; foon difperfed this Rabble, and under their Cove ‘| deprive him of the Advantages with which he he landed the Yohannians, and an equal Number a might now make a Peace, having twice defeated French and Englifh. They were met by about 7° | them : That he could not be always with them, Uohilians, who pretended to ftop their Patiage, bia and at his leaving Fohanna he might expect the King their Darts and Arrows were of little avail again 4 Of Mohilg would endeavour to take a bloody Re. Mhiffon’s Buzils ; the firft Difcharge made a grea’ A 11 88 for the late Damages, The Queen gave in- ‘Slaughter, and about 20 Shells which were throw? tirely into Afiffon’s Sentiments. rae é ahitay faa beer tb oot Ka . among them, put them to aconfus’d Flight. Th ‘While this was in Agitation four Adhilians arri- Party of Ee aes and Fohannians then marched a ved as Ambaifadors to propofe a Peace. They their Metropolis, without Refiftance, which they finding the Jobannians upon high Terms, one of reduced to Afkes, and the Yohannians cut down a2 \ A them {poke to this Purpofe; O ye Johannians, do the Cocoa Walks that they could for the Time, f0° not conchyde from your late Succe[s, that Fortune will be towards Evening they returned to their Ship alivays favourable, fhe will not always give you the Pro- and ftood off to Sea. © ~ a tection of the Europeans, and without their Help its At their Return to Yohanna the Queen made A Poffible you might now fue for a Peace, which you feem Feftival, and magnified the Bravery and Servi averfe to. s ~ Remember the Sun rifes, of her Guefts, Friends, and Allies. This Fea dian Height, and ftays no f. ; ifh you to reflect on the conft ant the Queen’s Brother propofed to Captain Miffon i Revolution of all fublunary Affairs, and the Greater is making another Defcent; in which he would go. Your Glory, the nearer | : Perfon, and did not doubt fubjetting the Mobilis} are taught by every Thing me fee, that there is xo but this was not the Defign of Adifon, who | Stability in the World, but Nature is in continual Mina Thoughts of fixing a Retreat on the North We! ment. “The 4 fhe Sea which oer flows the Sands has its Bounds Side of Madagafear, and look’d upon the Feué? fer, which # cannot pafs, bi Ree te oa nae: rs - ie ele two Iflands advantageous to A ras back to the Bolom of the ee a aoe no way his Intereft to i Deep. avo » every Shrub and Tree, and even our fer the one to overcome the other ; for while a own Bodies, teach us rhis Leffon, that nothing is durable, Variance was kept up, and their Forces pret 4 i can be counted upon. Time Paffes away infenfibly, one tauch upon a Level, it was evident their bite i By follows another, and brings its Changes with ir. Tr would make both Sides carefs him ; he therefal Os Globe of Light Sees you Strengthened by thefe Bu- anfwer’d, that they ought to deliberate on th : Peans elate with Vittory, and we, who have been ufed Conféquences, for they might be deceived in te i i“ conquer you, come to ask a Peace. To AMorroy’s Sun Hopes, and find the Conqueft lefs eafy than ch 1 Di dee Yen deprived of Your prefent Succours, and the imagined. That the King of Afbila would be mot NMANs petition; 1% 455 as therefore me cannot lay ‘upon his Guard, and not only intrench him(e) what 20 Aforrom Ms x. é ay. bring forth, it mould be unwife Pb gall Cherm Sith eduent Atbutcades, by siagaht JUG WAU ma te foremett ete ee they mutt inevitably-lofe a Number of Men 5 ano D3 see Fage, if they were forced to retire with Lofs, CoE ragl comes to its Meri- - om t there, but declines in a Mo- lafted four Days, at the Expiration of which Tit” ment. Lee ‘this advrons you are to your Declenfion. We - 4o Of Captain MIsson. — came in the Canoes as well as the two Prifoners 7 go back to Yohanna, take more of their ee men, and give no Peace to Traytors , but AdZiffon wa for no fuch violent Meafures, he was averfe a every Thing that bore the Face of Cruelty an@ thought a bloody Revenge, if Neceflity did not enforce it, {poke a groveling and timid Soul , he therefore, fent thofe of the Canoes back, and bid” them tell their King, if before the Evening he tent the Hoftages agreed upon, he fhould give Credi : to his Excufe, but if he did not, he fhould believ@ him the Author of the late vile Attempt on his i Life. | The Canoes went off but returned not with a“ | Anfwer, wherefore, he bid the Yohamna Men tel | the two Prifoners that they fhould be fet on Shore the next Morning, and order’d them to acquaint their King, he was no Executioner to put thole t? Death whom he had condemn’d, but that he fhould find, he knew how to revenge himfelf of his Treg fon. The Prifoners being unbound, threw them : felves at his Feet, and begg’d that he would no’ ; fend them afhore, for they thould be furely. put toe Death, for the Crime they had committed, wasy the diffuading the barbarous Action of which they ; were accufed as Authors. A Next Day the two Shipslanded 200 Men, unde ; the Cover of their Canon ; but that Precaution on bringing their Ships clofe to the Shore they foun needlefs; not a Soul appearing, they march’d tw? Leagues up the Country, when they faw a Body : “of Men appear’ behind fome Shrubs ; Caraccidis Lieutenant, who commanded the right Wing, wit fifty Men made up to them, but found he had ge : among Pit Falls artificially cover’d, feveral of ee i Men falling into them,which made him halt,and ng ; ‘purfue thofe ALbilians who made a feint Retreat Es i enfnare him, thinking it dangerous to Puogee a : ther; and feein _ Of Captain Misson. Al } g no Enemy would face them, they Fretired the fame Way they came, and getting in- to their Boats, went on Board the Ships, refolving to return with a ftrong Reinforcement, and make Defcents at one and the fame Time in different Parts of the Ifland. They ask’d the two Prifo- ners how the Country lay, and what the Soil was on the North Side the Ifland; and they anfwer’d it Was morafs, and the moft dangerous Part to at- tempt, it being a Place where they shelter on any imminent Danger. The Ships return’ eft Tendernefs and very and Cure of Ato Yohanna, where the greats Care was fhewn for the Reco- the two Captains and of their fome Time looking upon the Corpfe as motionlefs as a Statue, then embracing it, without fhedding a Tear, defired take it athore to wath Pleafure, but as it Aicient to allure him back to this World, 1 have wounded Men who died, fiood . 42 _ Of Captain Misson. E IT have no Ufe for ic; do with it what you pleafe- Then fhe defired they would go with her and . perform the laft Ceremonies to her Husband’s dead ; Body, after their Country Fathion, leaft he fhoul be difpleafed, that fhe could not ftay with them, © to be a Witnefs, becaufe fhe was in hafte to_ go and be married again. She ftartled the Eu- ropeans who heard this latter Part of her Speech {0 | diffonant from the Beginning ; however, they fol- lowed her, and fhe led them into a Plantane seh where they found a great many Johanna Men me . Women,fitting under the Shade of Plantanes,roun : the Corpfe, which lay (as they all fate) on ie Ground, covered with Flowers. She embraced them round, and then the Europeans, one by one, and atter thefe Ceremonies, the poured out a Num- ber of bitter Imprecations againft the Mobila Men, | whofe Treachery had darken’d her Husband’s Eyes } and made him infenfible of her Careffes, who was her firft Love, to whom fhe had given her Hearty with her Virginity. She then proceeded in his Ee fes, calling him the Joy of Infants, the Love “4 Virgins, the Delight of the old, and the ete of the young, adding, he was ftrong and Hated , as the Cedar, brave as the Bull, tender asthe Ki 4 and loving as the Ground Turtle; having gees i this Oration, not unlike thofe of the Romans, whic i the neareft Relation of the deceas’d ufed to prov nounce from the Roftrum, fhe laid her down by : ing hi fit- he Side of her Husband, embracing him, and : rig up again, gave herfel€ a deep Wound undef © & the left Breaft with a Bayonet, and fell dead ong her Husband’s Corpfe. : 6 he Europeans were aftonifhed at the Tenderne dia Refolucion of the Girl, for the was not, by F what her Mien fpoke her, paft feventeen , = they now admired, as much as they had sare? aS Of Captain Misson. —> 43 tefted, her, for faying fhe was in hafte to be mar- tied again, the Meaning of which they did not After the Husband and Wife were buried, the Crew return’d on Board, and gave an Account of what had pafd; the Captains Wives (for Atifon and his were on Board the Bijoux, the Name they had given their Prize from her Make and Gilding) cem’d not in the leaft furprized, and Caraccioli’s ady only faid, the muft be of noble Defcent, for none but the Families of the Nobility had the Pri. Vilege allowed them of following their Husbands, ©n pain, if they tranfgreffed, of being thrown in. to be eat by Fith; and they knew, that their Souls could not reft as long as any of the ith, who fed upoa them, lived. Miffin asked, if they intended to have done the fa they died? We fhould not, anfwerd hj have difgraced our Families; nor is our Tender. nefs for our Husbands infer} or to hers whom you feem to admire. After their Recovery, Mifin pro on the Coaft of Zangueber, which being agreed to, ‘he and Caraccioli took Leave of the Queen and her Pighel, and would have left their Wives on the an d, but they could by no Means be induced to the Separation: > > it was in vain to urge the, Short- nefs of the Time they were to Cruize; they an- {werd it was farther than Mobila they intended to 80, and if they were miferable in that fh fence, they could never fupport a longer ; and if they would not allow them to keep them Compa- ny the Voyage, they muft not expe& to fee them at their Return, if they intended one. In a Word they were obliged to yield to them; but told them, if the Wives of their Men ‘Should infift as ftrongly on following their Example, their Tender nefs, Would be their Ruin, and make them a Prey me Thing had s Wife, poled a Cruize, 44 Of Captain Mrsson. a Prey to their Enemies; they anfwer’d the Queen goon Board, and if any were in the Ships, they Mozembique. In about ten Days Cruize after they had left Fohanna, and about 15 Leagues to the Eaftward of this River, they fell in with a ftout “Portuguefe Ship of 60 Guns, which engaged them from Break of Day till Two in the Afternoon, when the Captain being killed, and a great Num- ber of Men loft, the ftruck: This proved a very rich Prize, for fhe had the Value of 250000 1. Ster- fing on Board, in Gold-Duft. The twoWomen ne- ver quitted the Decks all the Time of the Engage- ment, neither gave they the leaft Mark of Feary, except for their Husbands: This Engagement coft them thirty Men, and Caraccioli loft his right Leg 5 the Slaughter fell moftly on the Englifh, for of the above Number, twenty were of that Nation: The Portuguefe loft double the Number. Caraccioli’s Wound made them refolve to make the beft of their Way for Johanna, where the greateft Care was taken of their wounded, not one of whom died, tho’ their Number amounted to Twenty feven. Caraceioli kept his Bed two Months, but Adiffon feeing him in a fair way of Recovery, took what Hands could be fpar’d from the Bijoux, leaving her fufficient forDefence,and went out,having mounted ten of the Portuguefe Guns, for he had hitherto carried but thirty, though he had.Ports for forty- He ftretched over to Atadagafcar, and coafted a- long this Ifland to the Northward, as far as the moft northerly Point, when turning back, he en- ter’d a Bay to the northward of Diego Suares. He run ten Leagues up this Bay, and on the larboard Side found it afforded a large, and fafe, Harbours _ with plenty of freth Water. He came here to aa ~ Anchof fhould return on Shore: This Order was accord-_ ingly made, and they fet Sail for the River of © thould prevent that, by ordering no Woman fhould ~ : PAE OEE ORR A HET a | ) SOTY CREWS CEMA TTI REE TE OID T aaa MEDI E ETEPB UI TI. ~ Of Captain Mrsson. Az Anchor, went afhore and examined into the Na- ture of the Soil, which he found rich, the Air wholefome, and the Country level. He told his Men, that this was an excellent Place for an Afylum, and that he determined here to fortify and raife a {mall Town, and make Docks for Ship- ; ping, that they might have fome Place to call their owns anda Receptacle, when Age or Wounds had render’d them incapable of Hardihip, where they might enjoy the Fruits of their Labour, and go to their Graves in Peace. That he would hot, however, fet about this, till he had the Ap- Probation of the whole Company; and were he fure they would all approve this Defign, which he hoped, it being evidently for the general Good, che thould not think it advifeable to begin any Works, left the Natives fhould, in his Abfence, deftroy them; but however, as they had nothing upon their Hands, if they were of his Opinion, they might begin to fall and {quare Timber, ready for the raifing a wooden Fort, when they return’d with their Companions, ; ‘ The Captain’s Motion was univerfally applau- ed, and in ten Days they fell’d and rough hew’d a hundred and fitty large Trees, without any patie from, or feéing any of, the Inhabj- ete Sa fel?d their Timber at ‘the Waters nae fo that they had not the Trouble of haw- ing them any way, which would have employ’d & great deal more Time: They returned again, and acquainted their Companions: with what they on feen and done, and with the Captain’s Re- 0) ne which they one and all came into. aptain Miffon then told the Queen, as he had Ifland aes to her in her War with the farherei mila, and might contisue to be of Alliftance in the fettling himfelf on the Coatt of ? Afadagafcar, » he did not queftion her ‘lending him ae Of Captain Misson. 47 46 Of Captain Misson. _to, they ftaid till Gargecioli. was thoroughly reco- Madagafcar,and to that end, furnifh him with 360 vered, then putting the Yohanuians on board the en, to help in his Buildings; the Queen ane Portuguefe Ship with 40 French and, Englifh and. 1 {wered, the could do nothing without Confent of _ Portuguefe to work her, and fetting Sail, they ar- Council, and that fhe would affemble her Nobi- Tived at the Place where Miffon defigned his Set- lity, and did not queftion their agreeing to any — _ -tlement, which he called Lebertalia, and gaye the S. Thing he could reafonably defire, for they were =Name of Zibe,; to his People, defiring in that we fenfible of the Obligations the Fehanians had tO mig it be drown’d the diftingudh’d Names of French, iw him. The Council was accordingly called, and Englithy’ Dutch, Africans, &c.. “es A4ffon’s Demand being told, one of the eldeft i The. firft Thing they fat about was, the raifing faid, he did not think it expedient to comply a Fort on each Side the Harbour, which they _ With it, nor fafe to refufe; that they fhould in made of an otogon Figure, and having finithed agreeing to give him that Aifliftance,, help t0 2nd mounted them with 40 Guns taken out of © ‘a raife a Power, which might prove formidable to the P ortuguefe,. they raifed a Battery on an Angle = themfelves, by the being fo near a Neighbour; and of fen Guns, and began to raife Houfes and Ma- S| thefe Men who had lately protected, might, whet —- gazines under the Protection of their Forts and! 28 they found it for their Intereft, enflave them Ships; the Port ; uguefe was unrigg’d, and all her On the other hand, if they did not comply, ails and Cordage carefully laid up. While they a they had the Power to do them great Damage, Were very bufil : uiuly employed in the raifing a Town, Ri That they were to make choice of the leaft of ; ‘ Party. which’ had often hunted and rambled = two poffible Evils, for he could prognofticate 10 fe ses five Leagues off their Settlement, re. = Good to Yohanna, by their fettling near it. An* t0lved to venture farther into the Country. They 2 other anfwered, that many of them had Johanna mans themfelves fome Huts, at about 4 Leagues S Wives, that it was not likely they would make eueance from their Companions, and travell’d Eaft Bremies of the Fohanna Men at. firtt ‘fettling, bes. ra Raft, about 5 Leagues farther into the caufe their Friendfhip might be of Ule to them}, Ountr Y> when they came up witha Black, who and from their Children there was nothing to be ic as arm’d with a Bow, Arrows, and a Jave- ‘ apprehended in the next Generation, for they Fell they with a f c would be half their own Blood; that in the Th ow to lay by his Fear and go with them. mean while, if they comply’d with the Requefty ' Fas carried him to their Companions, and there they might be fure of an Ally, and Protettoty i “rtained him three Days with a great Deal of againft the King of Asbbila wherefore, he wa umanity, with him near for agreeing to the Demand, ar ig him a Prefent After a long Debate, in which every Inconvé overaee of nience, and Advantage, wag maturely confideredy Gens S af the; it was agreed to fend with him the Number & 8 Satisfattion, Men he required, on Condition he fhould fen ion ac Hunters imagined that there might be them back in four Moons, make an Alliance wit! mage no ‘| not far off, and obferving that he ° them, and War againft AZbila, this being agree ; look’d * Sener? rar APSE SOMES iia wt 48 Of Captain Mrsson, look’d at the Sun, and then took his Way di rect South, they travell’d on ‘the fame Point of the Compafs, and from the Top of a Hill they {pied a pretty large Village, and went down td it 5 the Men came out with their Arms, fuch aé before defcribed, Bows, Arrows, and Javelins, but upon two only of the Whites advancing, with Prefents of Axes, and Baze in their Hands, they fent only four to meet them. The Misfortuné was, that they could not underftand one anothet; but by their pointing to the Sun, and holding up Capt. JOHN BOWEN. (We one Finger, and making one of them go for HE exa& Time of this Perfon’s fetting Se ward, and return again’ with fhewing theif Out Tam riot certain of; I find him crui. 2e Circumcifion, and pointing up to Heaven with J. fing on the Aallabar Coatt in pieicon SS one Finger, they apprehended; they gave them t? 1700, commanding a Ship called the Speaker, whofe Ss underftand, there was but one God, who had fent Crew confifted of Meu of all Nations, and: their Se one Prophet, and concluded from thence, and theif Pyracies were committed upon Ships of all Na- x Circumcifion they were Mahomerans; the Prefent’ tions likewife, The Pyrates here met with no * were carried to their Chief, and he feem’d to rey. Manner of Inconveniencies in carrying on their Wy 32 ceive them kindly, and by Signs invited thé Defigns, for it was made fo much a Trad Whites into their Village ; but they, remembring the Merchants of one Town never fananic Se the late Treachery of the Afohilians, made Signs fo! buying Commodities taken from another, though i. ‘Vidtuals to be brought them where they were, | Dut ten Miles diftant, a nyc! Sale, fure < nithing the Robbers at the f i i More of the EHiftory of thefe Adventurers in anothl Neceffaries, even of Veffels, when aieyed onan =" | fion to goon any Expedition, which they thems Among the reft an Eneli Indi. : ; s : glifh Eaft-India Man, Cap: . tain Coneway ftom Bengal, fell ‘ae the Hands - < this Crew, which they made Prize of, near Callequjs lon they carried her in, and put her up to fale; _ «quilon aforefaid Thi * f gut elaid, another’ Third to a Merchant of OA) Porca, andthe other to One Adalpa, & Dutch Factor, » Von dat qx Loaded fe Of Cape. JOHN Bowen: at in the Building: They built alfo a little Town for their Habitati on, which took up the Remaindér of. the Year 702,” at : . When this was done, th fied With their new Situa Mind after their old Em ly refolved to fit up th the Durch at Ma as sa> Of Capt. Foun (BORENG.- 4 Loaded with the Spoil of this and feveral Coun“ try Ships, they left the Coaft, and fteer’d for Mae dagafcar, but in their Voyage thither, »meeting with adverfe Winds, and, being negligent in. theif ; < ey foon became diffatisé tions having a hankering | ployment, and according- =f Brigantine they had fron WES f neakechte see roy eel ean , a yet x : fees scene ettlement ident, that they They met here with all the Civility and goog improved, provided. for them ae better Maver Treatment imaginable 5 Bowen was compliment ‘ and faved them a great deal of Trouble, 5 in a particular Manner by the Governor, and {pler* Ir happened that about the beginning of the > didly entertained in his Houfe; the fick Men wee Year 199 2, a Ship called the Speedy Return, belone got, with great Care, into the Fort, and cured b | 10g to’ the Scoich- Afiean “and Eaffitndia Cor eR 4e their Dogtor, and: no Supplies of any fort wanting. Captain Driumanon Commander, came into ree ¥ore for the reft.. They fpent here three Months, bY of Ataritan in Madagafcar, with a Brigantine that - = yet refolving to fet down at Madagafcar, the belonged to her; they had before taken in Negroes Za bought’ a Sloop, which they converted int | at St. Adary’s, a little Mland adjoining to the main Se Brigantine, and, about the middle of March 1704 land of M : departed, having firft taken formal Leave of th Governor, by making a Prefent of 2500. Pieces 9 ~ Eight, leaving himy‘befides, the Wreck of the! Ship, with the Guns, Stores, and every Thing ¢ that was faved. “The Governor, on his Patt, fu ply’d them with Neceffaries for their Voyage, whic ‘was but fhort, and gave them a kind Invitation ¢ A ; take that Mlanda’Place of Refrefhment iin tf | theit Merchandize bro Courfe of their future Adventures, promifing th? ; "nothing fhould be? wanting to them that his: ( "i vernment afforded, ) | | Gh sist edly Ronee _ Upon their Arrival at. Atadagafear, they pu at a Place on the Eaft-Side, called Maritan, qe, ted their Veffel, and fettled themfelves afhore a fruitful Plait on the Side of a River. ° They buy, Was tudden, themfelves a Fort onthe River's Mouth towaty, D ae Py’ the Sea, and another fmall one on.the other: of (00r, with hi Steerage, they ran upon St. Thomas’s Reef, at i the Ifland of Adauritius, where the Ship was loft but Bowen and the greateft Part of the Crew a fafe afhore. ‘ $ Arms in his Hands towards the Country; the firft to prevent a SY #) Pits Sd laid ‘the’ Hatches, and then made a ) prize from Shipping, and the other as a Secutli ll “ignal to their Bellows on Shore; as agreed on € _ trom the Natives, many of whom they employ 4 sii PPTs ee efor 52 Of Capt. JOHN BOWEN. nwhich, about forty or fifty came on Board, aud took quiet Poffeffion of the Ship, and atten wards the Brigantine, without Bloodihed, or firt : i roke. , ae made, or rather made himfelf, of Courfe, Captain ; he detained the old Crew, oe a the greateft Part thereof, burnt the Brigantine being of no Ufe to them, cleaned and fitted thag - Ship, took Water, Provifions, and what Meret ries were wanting, and made ready for new A 4 vet hall leave them a while, to relate an unfor-” tunate Story of a worthy honeft Gentleman, wi fuffered through the Rafhnets and Folly of a headftrong People, for pyratically taking and mut j dering the Captain and Crew of this very Ship ‘ tubeen‘tits en and his Gang now {feized. é ae Englifh-India Man, commanded by Capa’ Thomas Green, called the Worcefter, in her Voyaea home to England, was drove by foutherly Win $ into Scotland, in the Month of July 1704, and an chored in Leith Road; the Captain, and hese : of the Ship’s Company, going afhore for Refrefh’ ments, the People of the Town, who had Acqua’ tance and Friends in Captain Drummond’s Ship, Wt derftanding the Worce/ter came from the Eaft-Indit 4 were very importunate in their Enquiries aftr this Ship, and being told that they had heard a no fuch Ship in India, the Enquirers pretended S be very much furprized ; fo that, in fhort, itgre jato a Sufpicion that the Worceffer had not dea yi fairly by the Scoteh Ship, which they had not pee of themfelves fince her Departure. In fhort, t 7 Magiftrates were inform’d that’ fome of the Crew had dropt Words that plainly indicated the ful) pofed Robbery and Murders of their Countrymé : Upon. this feveral Men were privately ieee j -fometimes they were threaten’d to be hasgets: 8a 4 bal thenagain large Prom to difcover the pret Tndian Boy was prev Of Capt. JOHN BOWEN. 53 ifes weremade to encourage’em Matter upon Oath, as they might think. Then the Captain, chief M fent to Prifo Tipp'd to Pieces, to confirm the Could be found ate and Crew, were feized and nN, the Ship was unloaded, and almoft = them, and try them they did, upon this Evi- Probabilities Ollow 3 the Indian, ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ 7 ¢ € € * ing fome Body h : Meant this fhoot ft er Was gone oy € ¢ ¢ ve c € € ence, and fome {mall Charles Ma > the Surgeon, which carried great Ini- along with it. The Depofitions were as whofe Name was Antonio Fer- fwore, “That on the Coaft of Malabar € came aboard the Sloop that attended the We and thereafter faw an Engagement be- Ship, failed by white Men, fpeaking Englifh, and bearing Englifh Colours. That they did engage the faid Ship for three Days, and on the third Day the faid Ship was boarded by thofe in the Sloop, who took up the Crew of the faid Ship Circumftances {worn to by ended Fact; till at length an | ailed on to confefs the whole to fearch for Goods, Writings, Gc. India’s Depofition, but nothing” 5 therefore they were obliged to faid Sloop, the Worceffer and another. from under Deck, killed them with Hatchets, and’ threw Charle Callequillon he he them overboard. ard Guns firing at Sea, and ask- € met at the Landing Place, what ing? He was anfwered, the Worce- one out, and was fighting at Sea with another ‘Ship. That the next Morning he faw the Worcefter riding at her Birth, where: fhe had h the Day before, and another Ship riding at ér Stern. That the Worcefter’s Long-Boat coming them tent be_asking»the Men what broughe om athore? They anfwered, they were fet W Water, they having fpilt and faved all their ater; and that they had been busking alt s May only depofed, ¢ That being afhore at _ 58 Of Capt. JOHN Bow EN. | with any: Injuftice, fince he had lived there 5 | goes ois i Svicas ‘an Account of ‘his Faith,’ his ‘ ang and dying in the Church of England, of th® perceived by the Shi Manner of Life abroad, their Obfervance of relig ots Duties, and the Senfe he had of the pute lity of Salvation, 1f he,dy’d with a Falfhoodin4® ~ Here Cap Mouth. Theo follows, —— ¢ Purfuant to whit ‘1 in the Prefence of Almighty God, declare € you his.People, that Iam innocent-in Delgy Deed; and free from the Crimes for- whic} am condemned. That tomy Knowledge, 1.” ver-all my: Life-time wrong’d Man in his pel fon or Goods, or had Acceffion thereto.” 'W the Cuftom of Pyrates’is, 1 thank God I kp rive not: But l underftand my Accufers andPerfecutl) gufin Bay, will -haye you to believe, that I think it unnec@ fary to confefs before Men.’ ‘Take what _ good Chriftians ought todo’; if you haveno "tan : rity, you wrong your felves, and cannot hurt mee {1am told fome of my Crew have confefs’d t” a , Crimes; and load us with Guilt; this is done fin’ and calling a Council Senterice, and in hopes of faving themfelv which I with they may 1 Mea not, have Acceffion to the fhedding innoc Blood. .I.am a dying, thefe are ftill in hopes? live, chufe you which of-us to believe, Gc." - To return to Captain Bowen, who pyratica’” pofletied himfelf of ‘Captain Drummond’s Ship a Brigantine, as aforefaid, he, being inform’d by ¢ Crew, that when they left Don Adufcarenhas, a S called. the Rook Galley, Captain Honeycomb Coty | mander, was lying in that Bay, refolved, w! the other Pyrates, to fail thither, but it tak up feven or eight Days in watering their Velfe and fettling their private Affairs, they ear ber at the Ifland till after the Departure of the Galley, who thereby happily efcaped the villain? Snare of their unprovok’d Enemies. LEE AP ASR ARR A OR aw & A AN Of Capt. FoHN Bowen, ght after the Pyrates left Afsitan, the a Ledge of Rocks off the Weft Madagafcar, which not being P, Bowen came into Mafearenhas - not knowing what was become of his _ The Ni Brigantine ran on Side of the Ifland without her, Confort, tain Bowen ftaid € he fupplied the g, that the nd, the Ship but the Pyra N. W. Harbo : to attem ‘ood immediately fo _tived fafe, firft to P eight or ten Days, in Ship with Provifions, Rook Galley was gone to fome fail’'d to Mauritins, in fearch tes feeing four or. five Ships ur, they thought themfelves pt any thing there, fo they t Madagafcar again, and ars ort Dauphin, and.then to Au- which Tim, and judgin i Other Ila of her; 'in the too weak ftood together, they found the Brigantine in no Condition for Bufinefs, being then very. leaky, hwith ha urated, and do by lawful Means, therefore Ort .G fy bi It gues were lo who, under th the fame-Man lized the Spee oking out for Employment : e Pretence of trading (almoft in and his Gang had themfelves- Mafters taled with her to New Mathelage. ner that Bowen Return) made 60 Of Capt. FOHN BoweEN, Intelligence, concluded ’twas more for their Inte Cruize to ‘ptain ¥ to be th Nat reft to join in Alliance with this new Companys than to att fingle, they being too weak of them felves to undertake any confiderable Enterprizé remembring how they were obliged to bear 4 in fearch of the Rook Gally, which they might havé taken, with feveral others, had they had at that ‘Time a Confort of equal Force to their ow? Ship... 7 They accordingly fet fail from the Bay, and came into New Mathelage, but found no Ship theres tho’ upon Enquiry they underftood that the Py rate they look’d for, had been at the Place, but was gone ; fo after tome Stay they proceeded 1? Gohanna, but the Profperovs not being there neither, they failed to Mayotta, where they found her ly- ing at Anchor, this was about Chrif?mas 1702. Here thefe two Powers ftruck up an Alliances omard Viking the Propofals, came readily into ity a the Treaty was faified by both Companies: They ftaid above two Months at this Ifland, think- ing it, perhaps, as likely a Place to meet with Prey as cruifing out for it, and fo indeed it hap pened; for about the beginning of Aarch, the Ship Pembroke belonging to our Eaft-India Company coming in for Water, was boarded by their Boats and taken, with the Lofs of the chief Mate and another Man that were killed in the Skirmith. The two Pyrate Ships weighed, and went out t0) Sea along with their Prize, and that Day and thé next plundered her of the beft Part of her Carga Provifions and Stores, and then taking the Cap? tain and Carpenter away, they let the Pembroke g0 where the Remainder of her Crew pleafed, an@ came with their Ships into New Aéethelage. Her@ - the two Captains confulted, and laida ana | : ruiZ de migh hip \ Of Capt: fouN BOWEN, 61 India, for which Purpofe they detained Woolley of the Pembroke lately taken, in or- €ir Pilot in thofe Seas ; but a very hot eee arofe between the two Companies, which @ way from the [fland of Adauritius, when they were had gone fhould goaboard of, infomuch that they together by the Ears, if an Expedient Ad not been found to fatisfy each Party, that one, t-not have the Advantage of the other by the Captain’s Skill and Knowledge of the Indian Coaft, 4 and th omen, _ Ser, b Temair Was, - Profperoy } the lays Vifion this was to kno Man on the Head ; and murder hi nock the poor 5 um 3 but at laft, by the Authority of Captain Woolley efcaped the threaten’d Dan- y bringing his Company to confent to his hing on board the Pro/perous, where he then The Repair | 10 Augy Speedy Return being foul, and wanting a little > 1€ was’ judged proper for her to go back ftin Bay to clean; in the mean while the was to have a Pair of Boot-Tops where and likewife to take in Water and Pro- 2 and thén to join their Confort again at Mayotta, the Ifland appointed for the Rendezvous. , The and wa Profperous put into Mayotta as agreed on, iting there fome Time for Bowen’s Ship, W 4 tthout feeing or hearing any News of her, went to Sebanna, but not meeting with her there, they ‘PPrehended fome Accident had. befel her, and erefc : dition h r lved there fom e th and th fair What too lon eae not for their Lives beat up to AZayorta, erefore went to Johanna, where, hearing | fen their Briends had lately left that Ifland, they a Ted for the Red Sea, but the Wind not proving ore left the Place, and failed on the Expe- themfelves, As to the Speedy Retura, the ar- fafe at St. eens Bay at Adadagafcar, and Cleaned and vittualled ; but tarrying there g, the Winds hung contrary, and for their Defign, they bore away for the High . Land Hi ry ¥ . Py ak i i ‘ Hh i Hi 1 | 62 Of Capt. JOHN BOWEN. more fell in Company with their Brethren’ of thé Profperous. x ro? Ba 4 » They cruiz’d together, as was firft agreed 0% and after fome Time they had Sight of four Ship to whom they gave Chace; but thefe feparatin®t two ftanding to Northward, and two to the South Ward, the Pyrates feparated likewife, Bowen eae ing after thofe that fteered Southerly, and How nt crowded after the others. Bowen came up with heavieft of the two, which proved to be a Moot Ship of 700 Tun, bound from the Gulph of 2Z0!# tq Surat. The Pyrates brought the Prize int Rajapora, on the Coaft of India, where they plu® ) dered her ; the Merchandize they fold to the N tives, but a fmall Sum of current Gold they fous! aboard, amounting to 22,00 1, Englifh Money, che put into their Pockets: Two Days after the Pra, Perous came in, but without any Prizes hower®) they foon made their Friends acquainted ‘that. cH had not fucceeded worfe than themfelyes, for Surat River’s Mouth, where all the four sbi were bound, they came up with their Chace See with a Broadfide, one of them ftruck, but the i ther got into the Bay. They flood: down a _ Coaft with the Prize till they had ~plundered 14 of the beft of her Cargoe, the moft valuable which was 84,000 Chequins, a Piece of about Shillings each, and then they without either: Anchor Survey on their Shipping, and judging their 0" to be lefs ferviceable than their Prize, they vor them to the Flames, and ftraightway fitted up * Surat Ship; they tran{ported both Companies _ board of her, and then fet Fire to the Prof a and Speedy Return. They muftered at this Py . ss | 164 fighting Men, 43 only were Englifh, the grey Num | Numberitrendy the Land of St. John’s, near Surrat, where they once the n £0! come: off. with left her adi!" or Cable, off Daman 4. wiped s th While they were lying at Rajapora they Pow! Value Of Capr, 63 reft Danes, Swedes and Dutch Of the Sh: ard 70 Indians to do the Drudgery D, the Ship, and mounted 536 Guns, calling her the fiance, and failed from Rajapora the latter End of the Year'1703, to cruize on the Coatt FOHN BOWEN: they took bo th Butinot Meeting with Preysin this firft Cruife, WY Came to an Anchor about three Leagues te orthward of Cochen, expecting fome. Boats & whic ' Supplies of Refrethments, for Sj ich Purpofe'they fired feveral Guns, sby way-of = but None: appearing, the Quarter-Mafter vane in the Pinnace to‘confer with the People, B uch he did. with. fome Caution, .keeping «the Pre Upon their Oars at the Shore-Side : In fhort, wh agreed very well, the Pyrates were promifed . atever: Neceffaries they wanted, and the Boat ®turned aboard, REBT, S332 ~ Theinext Day a Boat came off from the Town Neh Hogs, Goats, Wine, Gc. with a private Inti- fae from) Malpa, the Dutch Broker, an old ¢ on of the Pyrates, that a Ship of that Country Le ed: the Rima; lay then in AZudbay, not many “Sues off, ‘and: if they would go.out and take | linen? Would purchafe’ the Cargo” of them, and Fins Promifed that they fhould be further {up- ie with Pitch, Tar, and all other Neceffiries, ° th ich.was made good tothem ; for People from « Baétory flocked aboard every Hour, and dealt M them a8 in open “Market, for all Sorts of tare andize, Refrefhments, Jewels and Plate, re- 8 With Coffers of Money; ec. to. a great but ie Advice of the Ship was taken very kindly, toign however, it is now a confiderable pa ® fince thefe Things paffed, and though the ed oe knew in general that Captain Kid was hang- foo, 28d that his Crime was Pyracy, yet there were Sarce any, even at that Time, who were acquain- i with his Life or Aétions, of could account for 1s turning Pyrate, : co the Beginning of King Williiam’s War, Cap “I Kid commanded a Privateer in the Weft-Indies, we by feveral adventurous Aétions acquired the ene utation of a brave Man, as well as an experi- ven uSeaman,, About this Time the Pyrates were ka froublefome in thofe Parts, wherefore Captain id was recommended by the Lord Bellamont, then P Yetnor of Barbadoes, as well as by feveral other h fons, to the Government here, asa Perfon very mn, tO be €ntrufted with the Command of a Govern« the poMiP, and to be employed in cruifing upon yo tates, as knowing thofe Seas perfectly well, SOL, TL, E and ‘ 5k OW RIE MATAR APAT A ACES Of Capt. WILLIAM KtD. Of Capt. Witi1am Kip. 67 and being acquainted with all their lurking Places 5 . Danger and Hurt of our’ loving Subje&s, our but what Reafons governed the Politicks of thofe * Allies, and all others, navigating the seas upon Times, A cannot tell, but this Propofal met with no «their lawful Occafions. Now K NOW YE, that Encouragement here, though itis certain it would * We being defirous to p-event the aforelaid Min - have been of great Confequence to the Subjegt, our “chiefs, and, as much as in us lies, to bring the Merchants fuffering incredible Damages by thot *taid Pyrates, Free Booters and Sea Rovers to Robbers. : Juftice, have thought fit, and do hereby give and Upon this Negle& the Lord Bellamont and fome * Stant to the faid Wiliam Kid (to whom our Com. others, who knew what great Captures had been : Miffioners tor exercifing the Office of Lord High made by the Pyrates, and what a prodigious Admiral of England, have granted a Commifiion Wealth muft bein their Poffefion, were tempted “as a'private Min of War, bearing Date the 11th to fit out aShip at their own private Charge, and ay OF December 1695, and unto the Commander to give the Command of it to Captain Kid, and, : Of the faid Ship for the Time being, and unto to give the Thing a greater Reputation, as wellas _ tie Officers, Mariners, and others, which fhall be .to keep their Seamen under the better Command, they procured the King’s Commiffion ‘for the faid Captain Kid, of which the following is an ex- _ Under your Command, full Power and Authority _ 0 apprehend, fieze, and take into your Cuttody aswell the faid Captain Thomas Too, Fobn Leland, até Copy. . Captain Thomas Wake, and Captain Wiliam Maze, ¢ Of Mace, as all fuch Pyrates, Free Booters and William Rex, (884 Rovers, being either our Subjects, or of ‘ Iiam the Third, by the Grace of God, < Other ‘Nations aifociated with them, which you * King of England, Scotland, France. and Ire« thall ‘meet with upon the Seas; or Coafts of ‘ land, Defender of the Faith, ec. To our trufty ¢ “merica, or upon any other Seas or Coats, with, ¢ and well beloved Captain William Kid, Commander ‘all their Ships and Vetfels Pond at Gee + of the Ship the Adventure Gally, or to any other » fince he Propofed to deal wi" Purchas’g WH] his Ships Crew ‘+ Materials for putting his Ship in good il a defperate Enemy: The Terms: he offered wel Repair, ie) hake zee | 3 a: 3 4 t | that every Man fhould have Share of what ¥ taken, relerving for himfelf and Owners fo! Share 70 Of Capt. WILLIAM KID.. - 3 : i) It does not appear all this while that he ba the leaft Defien of turning Pyrate; for near ee hala and Soanna both, he niet with feveral lea Ships richly laden, towhich he did not offer 07 Jeaft Violence, tho” he was ftrong enough to ha a done what he pleas’d with them; and the frftOu” rage or Depredation I find ommi ; Mankind, was after his repuiring his Ship, and i Ving Yoana, he touoh’d at a Place call’d Mabbes upou the Red Sea, where he took fome Guinnea Cort from the Nacives, by Force, ° : : After this he {ail’d to Bab’s Key, a Place upon ~ Jittle [Mand at the Entrauce or the Red Sea - het it was that he firt began to open: himfelf to i Ship’s Company, and let them underftand that B intended to change his Meafures ; for, happelig to talk of the Avoca Fleet which was to fail tha Way, he faid, We have been unfucce|sful hitherto, Courage, my Boys, we'll make our Fortunes out of th Fleet; And finding that none of them appear j averfe to it, he order’d a Boat out, well mann’ to go upon the Coaft to make Difcoveries, com manding them to take a Prifoner and bring @ him, or get Intelligence any Way they could, ‘Toe Boat return’d ina few Days,’ bringing him Words that they faw fourteen or fifteen Ships ready fail, fome with Englih, fome with Dutch, and fom® with ALoorith Colours, ; We cannot account for this fudden Change in his meant well, while he had Fortune by taking of Pyrates 5 but now, weary of ill Succefs, and fearing ‘leaft his Owners, out ? Humour at their great Expences, fhould ditmi thould want Employment, and bé out for an unlucky Man; rather, 1 49% than run the Hazard of Poverty, he refolved to si he committed u pot fir’ at a Afoor Hopes of making hi Pp} 7 he.Way, fince he could not do it Of Capt. Winz1AM Kip. his Bufine&S o another. Re therefore Order’d a Man continually to watch at the Maft Head, leaft this Fleet {hould go by them ; and about four Days after, towards Evening, it appeard in Sight, being convoy’d by one Eng- Lifh and on€ Dutch Man of War. Kid foon fell in With them, and Setting into the midft of them, : ih Ship which was next him; but the Men of War taking the Alarm, bore down up- On Kid, and firing upon him, obliged him to theer off, he not being {trong enough to contend with them. Now he had begun Hoftilities, he refolv’d to goon, and therefore he went and cruis’d along — the Coat of Malabar, the firft Prize he met was a belonging to Aden, the Vefiel was 2 and the Owners were Moorifh Merchants, Mafter was an Englifh Man, his Name was e’d him and a Portugueze that. was » Which were all the Europeans on Board, to take on with them ; the firft he defign’d a8'a Pilot, and the laft as an Interpreter. He alfo ufed the Men very cruelly, caufing them to be coiced ua by the Arms, and drubb’d with a naked utla >to had M Cori but Ki Parker, Nothing by his Cruelty ; however, he took from them a Bale of Pepper, and aBale of Coffee, and fo let them go. A little Time f 5, who correfponded with them ; where- he *> a8 foon as Kid came in, he was fufpetted tobe the Perfon who committed this Pyracy ; and.oné = ca Be ; : } | 7 -E Of Capt. Witttam Kip. “93 72 Of Capt. Winn tam Krp. P Of Capt. W. 73 ‘i In fhort, he took the Cargoe and fold it fome Mr. Harvey and Mr. Mafon, two of the Engl Time after 5 yet fill he feem’d to have fome Fears Factory, came on Board and ask’d for Parker, a upon him leat thefe Proceedings fhould have a Antonio the Portuguefe ; but Kid deny’d that a ad End ; for, coming up with a Dutch Ship fome knew any fuch Perfons, having fecur’d them bot ¢ lime, when his Men thought of nothing but at- i a private. Place in the Hold, where they we! : wg tacking her, Kid oppos'd it; upon which a Mutiny ept for feven or eight Days, that is, till Kid {ail arofe, and the from thence, ‘ Majority being for taking the faid Ship, and arming themfelves to Man the Boat to owever, the Coaft was alarm’d, and a Port 80 and feize her, he told them, fuch as did, never guefe Man of War was fent oxt to cruize :\ Kid me d come on Board him again; which put an With her, and fought her about fix Hours, gallao™ End to the Defign, fo that he kept Company with Ay enough ; but finding her too ftrong to be take” the frig Ship fome Time, without offering her any he quitted her; for he was able to run away fr af Violence : However, this Difpute was the Occafion her when he would: Then he went to a Place ca ofan Accid 4 €nt, upon which an Indiétment was after- Porco, where he Wwater'd the Ship, and bought ~ Wards grounded againft Kid ; for Moor, the Gun- 8s of the-Natives to vittual bi ner, being one Day upon Deck, and talking with Company. / E Kid about the faid Dutch Ship, fome Words arofe. he came up with a Moorifh Ship) betwixt them, and Jwor told Kid, that he had Tuin’d them all 3 upon which, Kid, calling him Dog, é , ‘t0okupa Bucket and ftruck him with it, which which they obferving, ~hoifted French Colours to?’ breaking his Skull, he died the next Day.. When he came up with hi woke ex, he hail’d her But Kid’s penitential Fit did not laft Jong, for and they having a French Moa on Board, anfwef him in the fame La a ortting along Malabar, sa ah s Bie Num. © guage : i e orde er of ts, all whi rd. on t them to fend their Bort om Boards’ tree pott) Ret Of Boats, all which he. plunder’. Upon having examin’d who chef ce they came; he ask’d th r Captain, and by G—d, 4 the Malabar Wands for Wood and Water, and. his aptain: The French Man dul” Cooper being a | due fhore, was murder’d by the Na- have him: The Mea tives 5, upon which Kid himfelf landed, and burne the Would feize the Ship as fa! and pi > ty pillaged feveral of their Houfes; the People long’d to French Subjet unning away > but having taken one, he cauled he had for that Purpo! , and commanded one of & > after what he had alrea¢ his M im; then Putting to Sea again ne, that he need not have Recourfe to a Quibb Prize, which fell into his ¥0 Bive his Agtions a Colour, is . ee < Hands. x 74 Hands, Moorifh Shi p of Queda Merchant glifh Man, he w ten make Ufe of mand their Ships, t Sood Artiffls in Na under Frexch Colours her, h to {end told Wright he was lf concerning Of Capt. Wititam Kip, followed this Trade; this was y laden, named th! 4, whereof was an i call’d Wright, for the Tadians OF mglifh or Dutch Men to co eit Own Mariners not being © gation—_—, Kid chafed h# up with » while h 400 Tons rich] » the Mafter ittle e to deal wi of Honour in Mies to -Decei Ow; Way. Kid put fome of his Men on Board the Queda th P rch: her; and informis he underftoo 3 In which himfe the faid Ship, Payment in Money or Goods, which © xpeted ; for as they had been ufed yrates, they always found them Men the Way of Trade: A People, Ene- t, and that fcorn’d to rob but in their and with this Ship and his own fail’d » there came on Board of him a Canoe, were feveral Englifhmen, who had former- well acquainted with Kid; as foon as they IM they faluted him, and told him, they informed he was come to take them, and 8 them, which would be a little unkind in old Acquaintance 5 Kid foon diffipated their by {wearing he had no fach Defign, and ly been _ there were faw h Were hay vopeans On Board, except tw? he Reft being he Armenians wet achman, all Kid gave the 4rm@ fu ey would offer any D king for their Rat 4 : Upon wh ch an Oub: hat he ich, they) ; 2 as bad as they ; and calling for a Cup of drank their Captain’s Health. ie Men belong’d to a Pyrate Ship, cal?d the » formerly the Afscco Merchant, whereof ‘ain Culliford was Commander, and which n Anchor not far from them ; Kid went on Thee Refolurion One aS came to near. te# Part of it he alfo eral nge Provifions, or {uch d; by Degrees he dif them, promifing them his Friendfhip 2 and Culliford in his Turn came on. Kid, and Kid to teftify his Sincerity in “roe, and when the Dig about two hundre? eferved fort amounted to abo > it ca D, and h me to aving yr 5 y Share ut eight 8 Culliford in want’ of fome Necef- of her into the Queda Merchant, in- a IbS her for his Man of War; and as he had. v ; Vided: the Money before, ‘he now made a Divi. emainder of the Cargo; Soon after ; Se ee cone, = WHEN 75 (Of Capt. Wint1am Krp. | ORCap. Wirrtam KtD. 77 which, the greate{t Part of the Company left hi” Iftice would but wink at him.—— Wherefore he ‘une going on Board Captain Culiford, and othe id direttly for Ne-Tork, where he was no ab{conding in the Country, fo that he had mw? Omer arrived, but by the Lord Bellamont’s Orders, | "above forty Men left, a Was fecured with all his Papers and Effects. _ He put to Sea and happened to touch at AA risa of his Fellow-Adventurers who had forfook boyna, one of the Dutch Spice Iflands, where he wh | at Madagafear, came over from thence Paffen- told, that the News of his Aétions had reach’d £ ie fome | to New England and {ome to Fer/ey, gland, and that he was there declared a Pyrate ere hearing of the King’s Proclamation for par- The Truth on’t is, his Pyracies {0 alarmed olf ae of Pyrates, they furrendered themfelves to erchants, that fome Motions were made in Pal’ dt Governor of thofe Places: At firft they nase Hiament, to enquire into the Commiffion that w& * nitted to Bail, but foon after were aid in fri given him, and the Perfons who fitted him oul! il, nement, where they were kept for fome time, "Thets Proceedings feem’d to lean a little. bata ee Opportunity happened of fending them with upon the Lord Bellamont, who thought himfelf # “* Captain Over to England to be tried. much touch’d thereby, that he publithed a Ju fill ae ccordingly a Seffions of Admiralty being held Cation of himfelf in a Pamphlet after Kid’s Exect the Old Baily, in May 1701, Captain Kid, Nicho- tion, In the mean Time, it was thought advil! ky, Chuirchell, James How, Robert Lumley, William Fen- able, in order to ftop the Courfe of thefe Pys# Ome Gabriel Loff, Hugh Parrot, Richard Barlicorn, Abel eres, to publifh a Proclamation, offermg the King? mand Darb y Mullins, were arraigi’d for Pyracy ree Pardon to all fuch Pyrates as fhould volunté end Robbery on the High Seas, and all found guil- ay furrender themfelves, whatever Pyracies hey iy ‘k except three ; thefe were Robert Lumley, Wil- oy pou, OF at abies before the ial themdetven aoe 4 Richard. Barliéoie, bbe roving face ite Sao xT: at 1s to fay, for all PY’ CISOF the chee eee entices sabre aR ed Eaftward of the Cape of Good Hop ; € Ship, and producing their Indentures in = Z 2 an of Socatora, and Cap a so acquitted. ar rsyt Camorin.. In which Proclamation, very and Kid «three above-mentioned, tho? they’ were were excepted by Name. Broved to be concern’d in taking and fharing the _ When Kid left Amboyna he knew nothing of this : 'P and Goods mentioned in the Indi&ment, yet, Proclamation,for certainly had he had Notice of his) © the Gentlemen of the long Robe rightly diftin- being excepted in it, he would not have been {4 fuithed, there was a great Difference between their infatuated, to run himfelf into the very Jaws Inns amftances and the reft; for there muft go an Danger, but relying upon his Intereft with th@) Mention of the Mind and 2 Freedom of the Will Lord Béllamonty and fancying, that a French Pafs 0! A the Committing «an: Act’ of Felony or Pyraty. two he found on Board fome of the Ships bé f ‘tate is not to be underftood to be under Con- took, would ferye to countenance the Matter, an? hes but a free Agent; for*in this Cafe, the that Part of the Booty he got would gain hen new Wij A& will noe: make a Man guilty, unlefs the Friends, | fay, all thefe Things made hi) “ ™ Make it fo, er : flatter himfelf that all would be huthed, and that Juttic?®» Sis ae Now 78 OF Capt. WirtramRty: | Now a Servant, it is tru ‘et os his Proportion, he muft be accounted we = tee os atts ee his own Accoust! ution 5 and thefe’ Perfons, ‘acco! Ging to ‘the Evidence, received their Pert, bil rt ea eb Sie ae to their Matters ‘for thé tes afterwards, is the Matter i : ae USS ata them as fied Agenseceall id go under the Compy] See fters, which bein Ompulfion of their M2 g left to th : Begins they found them Mot! Seeger q wa was tryed upon an a See of Mul der alfo, viz. for killi Mi . call : found guilty of ies than” the Gunner, an! e, if he go voluntaril limited in the Pr i oclam Gaerne of Weft Salone ee oes bene in Court, and called upon ame 5 however, this Plea wa and Colonel Ba/s Captain Thomas Wa > vit and Chriftopher Pollard, Bien Hayes, Peter Delannoyes Commi ts; who were d mmiffioners, and fent over on Burpotelien’ rd Sof fuch Pyrates as fhould # Was lawful, but not in what to whom they fut’). — OfCapt. WILLIAM KID. 79 °F, why they did ‘that, becaufe fuch a Liberty Would deftroy all Difcrpline ; that if any Thing Was done which was unlawful, the Officers were to aniwer it, for the Men did no more than their Du- ‘yin obeying Orders. He was told by the Court, that ating under the Commiffion juftified in what was unlawful; he ®nfwered, he ftood in Need of nothing to juftify im in what was lawful, but that the Cafe of Seamen muft be very hard, if they muft be brought Nto fuch. Danget for obeying the Commands of their Officers, and punifhed for not obeying them ; ‘nd if they were allowed to difpute the Orders, there could be no fuch Thing as Command kept Up at Sea. - d to be the beft Defence the Thing This feem’ Could bear; but his taking a Share of the Plun- der, the Seamens mutinying on Board feveral Times, and taking upon them to ‘controul the Captain, fhewed there was no Obedience paid % the Commiifion, and that they ated in all Things according to the Cuftom of Pyrates and Free-booters, which weighing with the Jury, they, brought him in guilty with the reft.. : As to Capt. Kid’s Defence, he infifted much upon his own Innocence, and the Villany of his Men 5 he Rid, he went out in a laudable Employment, and hadno Occafion, being then in good Circumftances, - that the Men often mutinied a- .80-a Pyrating 5 Bint him, and did-as they pleas’d; that ‘he was threatened to be fhot in his Cabin, and that Ninety five left him at one Time, and fet Fire to his Boat, {0 that he was difabled from bringing his Ship home, or the Prizes he took, to have them regu- larly condemn’d, which he faid were taken by Victue of a Commiffion under the Broad Seal, they having Erench Paffes.—— The Captain called one Col, Hewfon to his Reputation, who gave him an = CMTAs 80 Of Capt. WILLIAM KYD. extraordinary Charafter, and declared to the Court; that he had ferved under his Command, and been in two Engagements with him againft the french, in which he fought as well as any Man he ever faw ; that there were only Kid’s Ship and his own againft Monfieur du Cafs, who commanded a Squa-' dron of fix Sail, and they got the better of him.-- But this being feveral Years before the Facts men- tioned in the Indiétment were committed, prov’d of no manner of Service to the Prifoner on his Tryal. As tothe Friendthip fhewn to Culliford, a notori- ous Pyrate, Kid deny’d, and faid, he intended to have taken him, but his Men being a Parcel of Rogues and Villains refuted to ftand by him, and feveral of them ran away from his Ship to the {aid Pyrate. But the Evidence being full and par- ticular againft him, he was found guilty as before mentioned. When Kid was asked what he had to fay why Sentence fhould not pafs againft him, he an{wered, That he had nothing to fay, but that he had been fworn againft ly perjured wicked People, And when Sentence was pronounced, he faid, Ay Lord, it is a very hard Sentence. For my Part, I am the innocenteft Perfon of them all, only 1 have been [worn againft by perjured Perfons. Weenies about a Week after, Capt. Kid, Wicho- las Churchill, James How, Gabriel Loff, Hugh Parrot, Abel Owen, and Darby Mullins, were executed at Execution Dock, and afterwards hung up in Chains, at fome Diftance from each other, down the Ri- ver, where their Bodies hung expofed for many Years. QF rang (0%. DOCOMO aaa x rai Pee - | e Captain sf oe. Won And his Crew. EF ORE [enter onthe Adventures of this Pyrate, I muft take Notice to the Rea- der of the Reafons which made me not “Ontinue the Life of Adifiz. In reading the Notes, which I have by me, rea Teting to Captain Tew, I found him join’d with Mifon ; and that I muft either be guilty of Repe- Ution, or give an Account of Tem in Adiffon’s Life, Which is contrary to the Method I propos’d, that. of giving a diftin& Relation of every Pyrate who has made any Figure: And furely: Tew, in Poiit ' Sf Gallantry, was inferior to none, and may juft- Wy claim a particular Account of his A@tions. However, before I enter on the Life of this Py- Tate, I fhall continue that of AZiffon to the Time that thefe two Commanders met. cathe Blacks feeing them fo much upon their Guard, brought out boiled Rice and Fowls, and af- ter they had fatisfied their Hunger, the Chief Made Signs that they were the fame who had . Sitried a Negroe to their Ships, and fent for the Ax and Piece of Baze they had given him: While ; this paf’d, the very Negroe came from hunting, Vou, II. G who ~ 82 Of Captain TEW. who feem’d overjoy’d to fee them. The Chief mace Signs that they might return, and ten Ne- groes coming to them laden with Fowlsand Kids; he gave them to underftand, they fhould accom- pany them to their Ships with thefe Prefents. They parted very amicably, and in hopes of fettling a good Correfpondence with thefe Na- tives ; all the Houfes were neatly framed and joint- ed, not built from any Foundation, but fo made, that half a dozen Men could lift and tranf{port them from Place to Place; and fometimes a whole Village fhall be in Motion, which would be an odd Sight in Europe, and _furprizing to fee Houfes moving. The Hunters returning to their Ships, with thefe Prefents and Negroes, were joyfully re- ceived; and the Negroes not only careffed, but Jaden with Baze, Iron Kettles, and Rum, befides the Prefent of a Cutlafh for the Chief. ; While the Negroes ftay’d, which was the Space of three Days, they examined and admired the Forts and growing Town, in which all Hands were bufied, and not even the Prifoners excufed. As Monfieur A4iffon apprehended no Danger from the Land, his Fort (tho? of Wood) being, he thought, a fufficient Defence to his infant Colony 5 the took a hundred and fixty Hands, and went 2 fecond Time on the Coaft of Zanguebor, and off uiloa he gave Chafe to a large Ship, which lay by ei him: She prov’d an over-match for the Viéfoire, which engag’d her, with great Lofs of Men, near. eight Glaffes, but finding he was more likely to be took, than to make a Prize, by the Advice of his Officers and Men, endeavour’d to leave the Portuguefe, which was a 50 Gun Ship, and had 300 Men on Board; but he found this Attempt vain, for the Portuguefe went as wellas the Vittoire, and the Commander was a refolute and brave Man> who, feeing him endeayour to fhake him off, : a clapp’4 —— hana LEV ALS te MIME AVENEL IY ELS Ins . Of Captain TEw. 83 Clapp’d him on Board, but loft moft of the Men he enter’d. Miffen’s Crew not ufed to be attack?d and expetting no Quarter, fought fo defperately that they not thoroly clear’d their Decks,but fome Of them follow’d the Portuguefe, who leap’d ito their own Ship; which Aéifon feeing, hop’d to Make an Advantage of their Defpair, and crying Out, Elle eff a nous, a Pabordage. She’s our owe board, board her, fo many of his Men followed the few, that hardly were there enough left to Aad the Ship; Adiffon obferving this Refolution in a Men, grappled the Portuguefe Ship, and leap’d Imfelf on Beard, crying out, la Mort, ou la Vittoire Death or Victory. The Portuguefe, who thought _ themfelves in a manner Conquerors, feeing the Ene- My not only drive off thofe who enter’d them but board with that Refolution, began to quit the Decks in Spight of their Officers: The Captain nd Aiffon met, as he was endeavouring to hinder the Flight of his Men; they engaged with Bravery with their Cutlathes : bat aon feriking 1m on the Neck, he fell down the main Hatch phich put an End to the Fight, for the Portuguefe Seing their Captain fall, threw down their Arms and call’d for Quarters, which was granted ; and all the Prifoners without Diftin&ion being order’d tween Decks, and the Powder-Room fecured, he Put 35 Men on Board the Prize, and made the beft poe Way for Libertatia. This was the dearet hee he ever made, for he loft fifty fix Men: ele was vaftly rich in Gold, having near 200,000 1. bey te on Board, being her own and the Cargo or her Companion, which was loft ‘upon the Coaft, ; whofe Crew fhe had faved 100 Men out of fe? the reft being loft, by endeavouring to an afhore ; whereas had their Fear fuffer’d €m to have ftaid, there had not been a Soul fof, the Tide of Ebb leaving their Ship dry: G2 This 2 er 84 Of Captain TE. This was the Reafon that the Prize was fo well mann’d, and proved fo confiderable. Being within Sight of Afadagafcar, they {pied a Sloop which ftood for them, and when. in Gun- Shot, threw out black Colours, and fired a Gun to Windward; A4ffor brought to, fired another to Leeward, ‘and hoilted out his Boat, which the Sloop perceiving, lay by for. AZziffon’s Lieutenant went on Board, and was received very civilly by Captain Tew, who was the Commander, to whom. the Lieutenant gaye a dhort Account of their Ad- ventures and new Settlement, inviting him very kindly on Board Captain Adifon. Tew told him, he could not confent to go with him till he had the Opinion of his Men; in the mean while Mif-. - fon, coming along-fide, hal’d the Sloop, and in- vited the Captain on Board, defiring his Lieute- ‘nant would ftay as an Hoflage, if they were in the leaft jealous of him; which they had no Rea> > fon to be, fince he was of Force fo much fupe- rior, that he need not employ Stratagem. This determined the Company on Board the Sloop, who advifed their Captain to go with the Lieutenant, whom they would rot fuifer to ftay behind, to fhew the greater Confidence in their new Friends. My Reader may be furprized that a fingle Sloop fhould venture to give Chale to two Ships of fuch Countenance as were-the Yfoire and her Prize: But this Wonder will ceafe, when he is acquain- ted with the Sequel. Captain Jew after being handfomely regal’d on Board the Victoire, and thoroughly fatisfied, return- ed on Board his Sloop, gave an Account of what he had learned, and his Men confenting, he gave Orders to fteer the fame Courfe with Miffon, whofe Settlement it was agreed to vifit. é I fhall here leave them to give an Account of Captain Tew. 8 pay Mn Of Captain TEW. 85 _ Mr. Richier, Governor of Bermudas, fitted out two Sloops on the’ Privateer Account, commanded ~ by Captain George Drew, and Captain Thomas Tew, With Inftru€tions to make the be& of their Way 0 the River Gambia in Africa, and there, with the Advice and Affiftance of the Agent for the yal African Company, to attempt the taking the French Fa&tory of Goorie on that Coaft. ; The above Commanders having their Commit fons and’ Inftructions from the Governor, took theit Departure from’ Bermudas; and kept Com- Pany fome Time ; but’ Drew {pringing his Matt, and a violent Storm coming upon them, they loft €ach other. ae Tew/being feparated from his Confort, thought Of providing for his future cafe, by making one bold Puths and accordingly, calling all Hands on Deck; he fpoke to them to this Purpofe, «©. That they ‘were not ignorant of the Defign With which the Governor fitted them out; the taking and deftroying the French Battory ; that he, indeed, readily agree1 to take a Commiifion , (0 this end, tho’ contrary to his Judgment, be- , Cute it was being employ’d; but that he thought ¢ ta very injudicious Expedition, which did they: , lucceed in, would be of no Ufe to the Publick, and ; Cnly advantage a private Company of Men, from. ~ Whom they could expe& no Reward of their ; Bravery ; that he could fee nothing but Danger ; 4 the Undertaking, without the leaft Profpeét , Of a Booty; that he could not fuppofe any Man , {ond of fighting, for fighting-fake; and few ven- , ‘ured their Lives, but with fome View either of « Particular Intereft or publick Good; but here « as not the leaft Appearance of either. Where- < bre, he was of Opinion, that they fhould turn ; their Thoughts on what might better their Cir- «Cumftances 5 and if they were fo inclined, he my : G3 - would © ¢ 86: Of Captain Tew, ¢ would undertake to fhape.a Courfe which thould ‘lead them to Eafe and Plenty, in which they ‘ might pafs the reft of their Days. That one “bold Pufh would do their Bufinefs, and they « might return home, not’ only without Danger, * but even with Reputation.?> The Crew finding he expected their Refolution, cry’d out, one and all, 4 gold Chain, or a wooden Leg, we'll fland . by you. : Hearing this, he defired they would chufe a Quarter Matter, who might .confult. with him for the Common Good; which was accordingly done. : tT ; bris I muft acquaint the Reader, that on Board the Weft-India Privateers and Free-booters, the Quar- ter Mafter’s Opinion is like the Mufti’s among the -Turk’s; the Captain can undertake nothing which the Quarter Mafter does not approve. We may fay, the Quarter: Mafter is an humble Imitation of the Roman Tribune of the People ; he fpeaks for, and looks after the Intereft of the Crew. . Tew now, inftead of his proceeding on his Voy- age to Gambia, thaped his Courfe for the Cape of Good Hope, which doubling, he fteered for the Streights of Bibel Mandel, entring into the Red Sea, where they came up with a tall Ship bound from the Indies to Arabia; fhe was richly laden, and as fhe was to clear the Coafts of Rovers, five more, extreamly rich (one efpecially in Gold) be- ing to follow her, fhe had 300 Soldiers on Board, befide her Seamen. Tew, on making this Ship, told his Men fhe carried their Fortunes, which they would find no Difficulty to take Poflefion of ; for though he was fatisfied the was full of Men, and was mounted with a great Number of Guns, they wanted the two Things neceffary, Skill and ‘Courage ; and, ime Of Captain TEw. 87 indeed, fo it proved, for he boarded and carried her without Lofs, every one taking more Care to Tun from the Danger, than to exert himfelf in the Defence of his Goods. _ In rummaging this Prize, the Pyrates threw over 4 great many rich Bales, to fearch for Gold, Sil- ver, and Jewels; and, having taken what. they thought proper, together with the Powder, part “ their falling into his- Hands, for he abhofr’d-evert © the Name of Slavery. Tew’ following the Orders, and acquainted with the Policy of Asiffon, order’d their Fetters and Handcuffs to be taken off, upon’ his Negroe Sailors, affuring him they. would not revolt, and were fenfible of their Happinefs in fal- ling into his Hands. ; Content, with thefe Prizes, he made the beft of his Way home to Libertatia, where ° he arrived without any finifter Accident ; but I forgot to tell my Reader, thatthe fet his Dutch Pri="- foners (nine; excepted, who. took. on with’him) afhore, about .30 Miles to the Northward: of the’ Cape, in Soldinia Bay, where had been buried, by Captain Miffon, the Englifh Commander ; he found a. great Quantity of Englifh Crowns; on Board ‘his Dutch Prize, which were carried into the common’ Treafury, Money being of no Ufe where every -Thing was in common, and no Hedge bounded any particular Man’s Property. The; Slaves-he! had releafed in this laft Cruize. were employ’d in the perfecting the Dock, and treated.on the Foot of » free People. .,Fhey were not» ignorant of the« Ghange of their Condition, and were therefore ’ extreamly diligent and ‘faithful. \ A white Man, or® one,of the old ftanding Negroes, wrought with every four,;and made them underftand the French © | Words. (by often Repetition, andthe Help of their® Country Mensyinterpreting). ufed. in, their Works: * Adiffon ordered a couple of Sloops to be buile in a* Creek, of 80: Tun-each, which he mounted with? $.Guns a ‘piece; out of the: Duich Prize. Thele’ were. perfected ina little Ttme, and proved’ not’ only fhapely. Veffels, but excellent Sailors... The Officers of thefe Sloops were chofen by ballottings* and. as their firft Defign was only to difcover andy lay down.a Chart: of the Coaft, Sands,-Shoals, and’ Depths of Water round the Illand of A¢edacafean> the i MIME MELE SRY RV APRA AL RI Of Captain TEW. 93 The School Mafter being fent for that Reafon with the Command of one, Tew defired, and had the Other, They were mann’d, each Sloop. with so White and 50 black Men. _Which Voyage round the Ifland was of vaft Advantage in giving the hew releafed Angola Negroes a Notion of the work- _ lug a Veffel ; and they were very induftrious both Mm endeavouring to learn the French Language, and to be ufeful. ‘Thefe Sloops, the one of which was alled the Childhood, and the other the Liberty, were hear four Months on this Expedition; in the mean while a few of the Natives had come often to the Settlement, and they began to {peak a little bro- en French, mix’d with the other European Lan- Suages, which they heard among A<(on’s People, and fix of the native Families fixed among them, Which was of vaft Ufe to the Planters of this new Colony ; for they made a very advantageous Re- Port to their Country Men of the Regularity and Harmony they obferved in them. The Sloops eing return’d, and an exaét Chart taken of the Coat, Carraccioli had a mind for a Cruize; he Propofed the vifiting all the neighbouring Iflands, &Xcordingly he went out to Mafcarenas, and the Other Iflands near it, taking one half of his Crew Of Negroes, and return’d with a Datch Prize, which he took off the abovementioned Ifland, where they Were about fixing a Colony. This Prize, as it had n Board all Sorts of Europeaa Goods, and Necef- faties for fettling, was more valuable than if it had been vattly richer. The Negroes growing Weful Hands, A4iffon refolved on a Cruize to the Northward, encouraged by Tew’s Succe{S; and, With all the Blacks, which he divided between the two Ships, one of which Captain Tew com- Manded, fet out with 500 Men: Off the Coaft of Arabia Felix, they fell in with a Ship belonging to the Great Mogul, bound for Zidgr, with Pilgrims to Missy ae : - Afecca, TPP UE Tey Waw Wwe AN VFA wry Fao aN ae Ne N ) 2 ASAT ASS EUIMVEY VR SeRwe VATS 94 Of Captain TEW. Mecca, who, with Adoor Mariners, made up the Number of 1600 Souls. This Ship carried 110 ‘Guns, but made a very poor Defence, being en- cumber’d with the Goods and Number of Paf- fengers they carried. The two Adventurers did not think it their Bufinefs to cannonade, they there- fore boarded as foon as they came up with her, and the Aéodrs no fooner faw them enter’d, but they difcharged one Volley of fmall Arms at Ran- don, we may fuppoie, becaufe no Execution was done, and fled the Decks. Being Majfters of this Ship, which did not coft them a fingle Man, they confulted what they fhould do with her, and the Prifoners, and it was refolved to {et-them afhore between Ain and Aden ; but as they wanted Wo- men, to keep all the unmarried, and to navigate ° the Ship to Libertatia, as the Guns might be of Ule to them; and, by letting her go, or finking, they might lofe, perhaps, a confiderable Booty, which the Afoors, might have hid in her Cielings or Ballaft. 5 This Refolution was put in Execution, and they brought off roo Girls, from 12 to 18 Years old, who defigned to make the Pilgrimage with their Parents. The Lamentations this Separation caufed among the Prifoners, had fuch Effect on Miffon, that he was for letting them go, but eve- ry one of his Men were againft him. They now made the beft of their Way for Adadagafcar, put- ting 200 Hands on board the Prize, which proved avery heavy Sailer, and retarded them very much- Off the Cape Guarde Fin they were overtaken with a cruel Storm, which was very near wrecking them on the Ifland called Jrmanos ; but the Wind coming about due North, they had the good Luck: t0 efcape this Danger. Though the Fury of the Wind abated, yet it blew fo hard for 12 Days to- gether, that they could only carry their saan reef G+ i MILLE VAY EN EY BUILT LIU EL AL IY Of Captain TEM. © w Teef’d. They fpy’d a Sail in their Paffage, but the Weather would not permit their endeavouring to {peak with her. In a Word, they return’d to Libertatia with their Prize, without any. other Ac- Sident, but the Captors could make no Eftimate Of her Value, the having on Board a vaft Quan- tity of Diamonds, befides rich Silks, raw Silks, Spices, Carpets, and wrought and bar:'Gold. The Prize was taken to pieces, as fhe was of no Ufe ; her Cordage and knee Timber preferv’d, with all the Bolts, Eyes, Chains, and other Iron Work, and her Guns planted on two Points of the Harbour, Where they raifed Batteries, fo that they were now fo: ftrongly fortified they apprehended no Danger from any Number of Shipping which could be brought into thofe Seas to attack them. They had, by this Time, clear’d, fown, and enclofed a Sood Parcel of Ground, and taken in a Quantity of Pafturage, where they had above 300 Head of black Cattle, bought of the Natives. .The Dock Was now finifh’d, and the Vittoire growing old and unfit for a long Voyage, and the laft Storm having fhook and loofened her very much, fhe Was pull’d to pieces and rebuilt, keeping the fame ame, She was rigg’d, vittuall’d, and fit to go to Sea, and was to fail to the Coaft of Guinea for More Negroes, when one of the Sloops came in, Which had been fent out rather to exercife the Negroes, than with any View of making a Prize, and brought Word five tall Ships chac’d her in- fo the Bay, and ftood for their Harbour ; that the Judg’d them to be Portuguefe by their Built, and $9 Gun Ships, fullof Men. This prov’d the real Truth, The Alarm was given, the Forts and Bat- teries mann’d, and every Man ftood to his Arms, Miffon took upon him the Command of 100 Ne- 8roes, who were well difciplin’d, (for every Mor- Ring they had been ufed to perform their cag : Ccile, 96 Of Captain TEW: cife, which was taught them by.a French Serjeant, one of their Company, who belong’d to the Vittoire) to be ready where his Affiftance fhould be requir’d. Tew commanded all the Englifh. They had hardly order’d their Affairs when thefe Ships hove in Sight, and ftood dire&ly for the Har- bour with Portuguefe Colours. They were warmly received by the two Forts, which did not ftop them, though it brought one of them on the Ca- reen ; they enter’d the Harbour, and thought they had done their Bufinefs, but were faluted {o warm- ly from the Forts and Batteries, Sloops and Ships, that two of them funk downright, and a great many Men were drowned, though fome got on Board the other Ships. The Portuguefe, who did not imagine they had been fo well fortified, and thought in pafling the two Forts they fhould, without Difficulty, land their Men, and eafily root out this Neft of Pyrates, found now their Miftake, for they durft not venture to hoift-out a Boat. They had wifely, however, contriy’d to enter juft before the Turn of the Tide. Finding the At- tempt vain, and that they loft a great many Men, they clapp’d upon a Wind, and with the Help of the Tide of Ebb, made more Hafte out than they did to get in, leaving two of their Ships funk in the Harbour; but they did not get off fo cheaply, for no fooner were they clear of the Forts, but Miffon manning, wich the utmoft Expedition, both the Ships and the Sloops, he gave them Chafe, and engag’d them at the Mouth of the Bay. The Portuguefe defended themfelves with a great deal of Gallantry, and one’of them put off the Ziber- tatians twice, who boarded them from the two Sloops; two of them, finding themfelves- hard prefs, made arunning Fight, and got off, and deft the third to fhift as well as he could. The Bijoux and Vitkoire finding the Porruguefe endea- } vour’a a Of Captain TEW. 97 Vour’d to clear themfelves, and knowing there Was little to be got by the Captures, gave over the Chafe, and fell upon the third, who defended himfelf till his Decks fwam with Blood, and the 8teater Number of his Men killed, but finding all Refiftance vain, and that he was left to an Unequal Fight by his Companions, he called for. Quarter, and good Quarter was given, both to himielf and Men. This Prize yielded them a ‘Bteat Quantity of Powder and Shot, and, indeed, they expected nothing of Value out of her. None Of the Prifoners were ftripp’d, and the Officers, Miffon, Caraccioli and Tew, invited to their Tables, treating them very civilly, and extolling the Courage they had fhewn in their Defence. Unhap- Pily two Prifoners were found on Board, who had been releafed, and had {worn neyer to ferve “Saint them; thefe were clapp’d in Irons, and Publickly tried for their Perjury. The Portuguefe Officers being prefent, the Witneffes proved them the very difchargedMen, and they were condemned ‘Obe hanged at the Point ofeach Fort; whichExe- CUtion was performed the next Morning after their © Sndemnation, with the Affiftance of the Portu- Sele Chaplain, who attended, confefs’d and ab- pla them. This wasthe Engagement with the Yrates; which made fo much Noife in the Lishon Suzette, and thefe the Men whom the Englifh igno- Nantly took for Avery; who, we had a Notion here " London, had 32 Sail of Men of War, and had tken upon him the State and Title of King, a Witake we have already fpoken to in the firft ‘Olume, é e This Execution feeming to impugn the Maxims the Chiefs, Caraccioli made an Harangue, in i. hich he told them, that there was no Rule could ~ laid down which did not allow Exceptions hat they were all fenfible how tender tne Com- VOL. II, H “ madore, y) a4: ” a 98 Of Captain TEW, madore, Monfieur J4iffon, was in fhedding of Blood; . and that it wasa Tenet of his Faith, that none had Power over the Life of another, but God alone, who gave it ; but notwithftanding, Self-Pre- fervation fometimes made it abfolutely neceidary to take away the Life of another, elpecially an avow’d and an obliged Enemy, even in cool Blood. As to the Blood fhed in a lawful War, in Detence of that Liberty they had generoufly aifertea, it was needlefs to fay any Thing, but thought it proper to lay before them Reafons for the Execu- tion of the Criminals, and the Heinoufiuefs of their Crimes. They had not only received their Lives from the Bounty of the Libertatians, but their Li- berty, and had every Thing refiored them which they laid claim to, confequently their li graticude rofe in Preportion to the gererous Tieatment they had met with. That, indeed, bo.h he and Cap- tain Aviffin would have paffed by the Perjury and Ingratitude they had been guilty of, wich a cor- poral Punifhme:t, which had not extended to the Deprivation of | ife, but their gallant Friend and Companion the Engl'fh Commander, Captain Ter, ufed fuch cogent Reatons for anexemplary Puniik- met, to deter others from the like Crimes, that they muft have been Enemies to their own. Pre- fervation in not following his Advice. That the Lives of their whole Body ought to be preferr’d to thofe of declared and perjured Enemies, who would not ceafe to endeavour their Ruin; and, as they were well acquainted with their Settle- ment, might be fatal Infiruments of it, if, they were again reftored to that Liberty which they had already abufed. That he was obliged to do Captain Tem the Juftice, to acknowledge he was inclined to the Side of Mercy, till hewas horough- ly informed of the Blacknefs of their Ingraticude, ard then he thought it would be Cruelty to them- felyes OF Captain TEW: 99 . {elves to let thofe Mifcreants experience a fecond Time their Clemency , thus an abfolute Neceffity had obliged them to att contrary to their de- Clad Principles; tho’, to ftate the Cafe rightly, thefe Men, not the Libertatians, were the Authors of their own Deaths? Here the Affembly crying out, their Blood is on their own Heads, they fought their Deaths, and hanging was too good for them, Caracciols Save over, and évery one returned fatisfied to his Private or the publick Affairs. Some Differeiices arifing between Afiffon’s and Tetp's Men, on a national Quarrel, which the lat- ter began, Captain Tew piopofed their dectding the: Quarrel by the Sword, but Caraccioli was en Hrely againft” it, alledging) that fuch a Decifion Muft neceffarily be a Damage to the Publick, fince the brave Men who fell, would be a weakening of their Colony 5 he therefore defired Captain’ Tem to interpofe the Authority he had over his Crew, as and Miffon would endeavour to bring their Men ‘Oan amicable Agreement 5 and for the future, as this Accident: proved the Neceflity, wholefome Laws fhould be made, and a Form of Government ®itered upon; both Parties were call’d; and Caraccioli ‘ew'd them the Neceflity of their living in Unity ‘Mong themfelves, who had the’ whole World for Nemies ; and as he had a perfwafive and infi- Nuating Way of Argument, with the Afiiftance of Captain 7, éw, this Affair was ended to the Satisfac- tion of both Parties. eto Site , rhe next Day the: whole Colony was affembled, and the three Commanders propos’d a Form of Go- ferment, being taken up, as neceffary to their Con- vation 3 for where there were no coercive Laws, he weakeft would always be the Sufferers, and a Thing muft tend to Confufion: That Mens ““flions blinding them to Juftice, and making them ever ‘Partial to them{elves, they ought to fubmit . a eee %oo Of Captain TEW. the Differences which might arife to calm and dif interefted Perfons, who could examine with Tem= per, and determine according to Reafon and Equi= ty : That they look’d upon a Democratical Form, where the People were themfelves the Makers and Judges of their own Laws, the moft agreeable; and therefore, defired they would divide themfelves into Companies of ten Men, and.every fuch Com- pany chufe one to affift in the fettling a Form of Government, and in making wholefome Laws for the Good of the whole: That the Treafure and Cattle they were Mafters of fhould be equally di- vided, and fuch Lands as any particular Man would enclofe, fhould, for the future, be deem’d his Pro- perty, which no other fhould lay any Claim toy if not alienated by a Sale. The Propofal was received with Applaufe, and they decimated themfelves that very Day, but put off the meeting of the States till a Houfe was built, which they fet about very chearfully, and finith’d in about a Fortnight ; it being of framed Timber, and they having among them a great many who -underftood the handling an Ax. When this Body of Politicians met, Caracciole open’d the Seffions witha handfome Speech, fhew- ing the Advantage flowing from Order; and then {poke to the Neceffity of lodging a fupream Power in the Hands of one, who fhould have that of re- warding brave and vertuous Actions, and of pu- nifhing the vicious, according to the Laws which the State fhould make; by ‘which, he was to be guided. That fuch a Power however fhould not be for Life, nor hereditary, but determinate at the end of three Years, whena new Choice fhould be made by the State, or the Old confirm’d for three Years longer ; by which means, the ableft Men would al- ways be at the Head of Affairs, and their Power bes ing of fhort Duration, none would dare to abufe it Of Captain Tew, IO at: That fuch a Chief fhould have the Title of Lord Confervator, and all the Enfigns of Royalty to attend him. .. This was approv’d Nemine contradicente, and Miffon was chofe Confervator, with Power to create Bteat Officers, &c. and with the Title of Supream Excellence. , Phena Law was made for the meeting of the State once every Year at leaft, but oftner, if the Confervator and his Council thought it neceffary for the common Good to convene them ; and that Nothing of Moment fhould be undertaken without the Approbation of the State, _ In a Word, their firft Seffions lafted ten Days; anda great many. wholefome Laws were enatted, Tegifter’d in the State-Book, printed and difpers’d (for they had fome Printers and Letter Founders tho’ them) and then the Confervator diffolyed em. __ Captain Tew, the Confervator, honoured with the Title of Admiral, and Cuzraccioli made Se- Cretary of State, he chofé a Council of the ableft ’mong them, without Diftin&ion of Nation or Colour ; and the different Languages began to he. incorporated, and one made out of the many: An | . qual Divifion was made of their Treafure and fattle, and every one began either to inclofe Land or himfelf or his Neighbour, who would hire his Affiftance. ; : Admiral Tew propos’d the building an Arfenaf, and augmenting their Naval Force; the fir was *teed to be propos’d to the State at the next Convention, but the latter was thought unneceffary, a the Number of Inhabitaats was augmented ; or fhould they all be employed in the Sea Ser- Vice, the Husbandry would be neglected, which ‘Would be of fatal Confequence to the growing Colony, oe } H 3 ~The 102 Of Captain TEW. The Admiral then propofed the fetching in thofé Englifomen who had iollowed the Quarter Mafter 5 but the Council rejetted this, alledging, that as they deferted their Captain, it was a Mark of a mutinous Temper, and they might in‘ect others “with a Spirit of Diforder; that however, they might have Notice given them of the Sectlemeut, and if they made it their earneft Intreaty to be admitted, and would defert the Quarter-Mafter, it Shou'd be granted as a particular Favour done them, at the Inftance of the Admiral, and upon his ei gaging his Parole of Honour for their quiet Behaviour. _..The Admiral then defired he might take a Cruize; that he hop’d to meet with fome Ea/t- India Ships, and bring in fome Voluntiers, for the Number of Subjects being the Riches o: a Na- of Mea, than of aay Thing elfe; that he would lie in the Way of the, Cape, and did not queftion doing good Service ; and as he went to the North- ward, would call upon his owa Men. The Vi&oive was according to. the Admiral’s De- fire fitted out, and in few Days he fail’d with , 300 Men on beard; he came to an Anchor at the Settlement his Men had made, and hoifted an En- _glifo Enfign in his Fore Shrouds, and fir’d a Gun 5 but after he had waited fome Time, perceiving no Signal from the Shore, he landed and fent back his Boat ; foon after the Boat was returned towards whom he gave an Account of A/iffon’s Settlement: They invited him into the Wood to fee that of theirs, and to advife with their Companions, about the propos’d Migration. The Governor, alias Quarter-Mafter, received him mighty civilly, but told him, that he could fee no Advantage to them- felves in changing their prefent Situation, ibs \ t ey, tion, he thought the Colony ftood more iu ueed | the Ship, two of his Men. came up to him, to. OTR ad ay ~ y SOR NDA. SA. “Of CaptainTEW. —'103 they might prove a great One to the new Colony, adding to their Force fo many brave Fellows: b aay they there enjoy’d all the Neceflaries of ife; were free and independent of all the World; » 8nd it would be Madneis again to fubje&t them- felves to any Government, which, however mild, ae exerted fome Power. That he was Governor 'three Months, by the Choice of his Compa- . Mus; but his Power. extended no farther than to the jadging in Matters of {mall Difference Which might arifé, which he hop’d to do impar- Hally while his Authority continued ; that they had agieed among themfelves, and confirm’d that greement by Oath, to fupport the Decrees of _the Governor for the Time, that their Tranquilli-. 2 might not be difturb’d’by the capricious Hu- eee oO any one Man; and that this Power of ; es was to devolve at the Expiration of Ras Months, to him on whom the Lot fhould stli by balloting, provided he had not before en- wed the Honour, for fuch a one was not to as by which Agreement, every one. would be afed, in Time, to the fupream Command, which . Prevented all canvafling and making Intere% for ee as when it determined by Suffrage left no eee for making Divifions and Parties, and was a fi ee to continue to them that Repofe infeparable ape a Unity among themfelves. However, conti- ° th he, if you will go to America or Europe,and thew © Advantages which may accrue to the Englifh ¥ fixing a Colony here, out of that Love we bear ee Country, and to wipe away the adious Appel- — * On of Pyrates, with Pleafure well fubmit to- ees fhall come with a Commiffion from a Ps ul Government; but “tis ridiculous to think if ia become Subjects to greater Rogues than. ae elves; and that you may know what to fay cs this Head, if you think it expedient to follow : Hs _ my AN los Of Captain TEw. Se my Advice, take with you fome few Thoughts, which I have couch’d in Writing, and which Vl fetch you; he went into his Cabbir, for, tho’ the Governor's, it did not deferye the Name of a Houle, brought out fome written Papers, and gave them him. : Captain Tew finding the Quarter-Mafter {poke the Sentiments of his Companions, took Leave, and returned to his Ship. 3 ear “When the Captain was in his Cabbin, he read the Quarter-Mafter’s Papers, which, as the Con- tents of them may oblige the curious, I fhall fet: own. : ; 9 This Ifland of AMfadagafcar affords all the Necefla- ries of Life,and yields to none either in the Whole- fomenefs of the Air, or Fruitfulnefs of the Soil: The Seas around it are well ftor’d with Fith, the Woods with Fowl, and the Intrails of the Earth are enrich’d with Mines of excellent Iron, as I have Jearn’d from fome Natives, by their having Arms of that Metal; and, doubtlefs there are here both Gold and Silver Mines in the Mountains. ~The Soil will produce Sugar, Cotton, Indigo, and other Growths of our American Colonies, at a fat inferior Expence, as, I will make plain, by com’ paring the Charge of eretting a Mill, Ge, in Barbadoes, with what it would be here. ia A Windmillin Barbadoes will coft 100 1. all Ma- terials and Labour being very dear; but here Wood and Stone may be had for Labour only; fo that with Artificers, and the needful Iron and Capper Work brought from Europe, a Sugar Work may de fet up for very little Money. “Negroes in Barbadoes are at 30, 40, 50.1. per Head ; and | dare anfwer tos. in Eurcpean Goodss will purchafe a Negroe Slave at A¢adagafcar, fince we have purchasd for an old Coat, a lufty Fellow. Pee Of Captain TEW, 105 ~ Food is very: dear at Barbadoes, and here you Tay feed a Slave, as well as your felf without Expence; confequently he will do more Work than *® Barbadoes Slave, who is, by the Dearnefs of Pro. Vifion, half-ftarved. Tho’ a Cattle Mill is of lefs Expence in Barbas does, yet the feeding of Horfes and Oxen at Bar- badoes is very dear. But, to proceed to other Advantages, all Sorts Of medicinal and dying Woods may be carried from hence to Europe; and your Woods for fine Works, as Iron, Wood, Cedar, Mahogony, cc. @re here in great Abundance. Ifa Colony, with a lawful Power, were fettled ere, no doubt, but many of the Commodities Which we fetch from the Indies might be made - here, as Silk, Cotton, ¢éc. the Soil being proper for their Produétion. _ The Natives are, or feem'to be, very human ; and they have fuch Plenty of black Cattle, that we have bought an Ox of 800 Ib. Weight, for 4 Pair of Breeches. Befides, a Settlement here would be a Curbon Yytates, and a Protettion, as well as a great Con- “Weniency to our Ea/t India Ships, who might here € ftored with frefh or falt Provifions, and confe- quently not be obliged to carry with them {fo steat a Quantity as they now do, and fave a- 8teat Deal of Money to the Company in their Vidualling. Captain Tew went on Shore again in the Evening, the Wind not ferving to weigh, it blowing due Weft; he asked the Governor, how he got acquain- ted with the Natives? and he anfwered, by meet- 18 them a Hunting, and ufing them well; that he wheedled one of them down to their Huts, the ellow being alone, and they three in ei Si e as AS PAS WASP AAS A 106 Of Captain TEW. he fuppos’d, thought it beft to go with feeming Willingnefs. After him feveral came, and they liv’d very friendly with them: The Captain had brought afhore with him fome Rum and Brandy, and they were drinking a Bowl of Punch, when, on a fudden, a violent Storm arofe, Captain Tem ran to the Shore, and made a Siznal for his’ Boat to carry him off, but the Sea ran ‘too’ high to’ venture out of the Ship: The Storm all the while increas’d, and the Viéforre, in lefs than two Hours,’ parted her Cables; was drove afhore where i> was ficep to, and perithed, with all her Men, in Cap- tain Tew’s Sight. The Captain ftaid with his old Companions, without knowing which Way to return to his Friends he had left with Afgin, not one of whom was (luckily tor them,). on board the Ship. At the End of three Months, as far as they could _ difcover a Hutt, they faw a large Ship, which Tem believed was the Bijoux, but fhe took no No- _ tice of the Fires they made: As he expefed the would return after a fhort Cruize, he, and his Companions, made large Fires every Night on the Shore, and vifired the Coaft very often. About a Month after this, as they came early to the Sea- Side, they were furpriz’d at the Sight of two’ Sloops which lay at an Anchor, about a Canon” Shot from the Shore; they had not been long jooking upon them, when a Canoe was hoifted out of One, and made to them, with fix Men ‘who row’d, and one Sitter. - Tew foon knew him to be Captain Alifon , he came afhore, and embracing the former, told him, all their propos’d Happinefs was: vanifhed ;” for without the :leaft Provocation given, in the Dead of the Night, the Natives came down upon them in two great Bodies, and made a great slaughter, te with- Of Captain TEW. 107 Without Diftinftion of Age or Sex, before they Could put themfelves in a Pofture of Defence; that Caraccioli (who died in the A€tion) and he got what Men together, they could, to makea Stand; but finding all Refiftance vain againft {uch Num- bers, he made a Shift to fecure a coufiderable . Quantity of rough Diamonds and Bar Gold, and to et on board the two Sloops with 45 Men: That the Bijoux being g-ne to cruize, and the Nuniber Of Men he had carried with him in the Vidoire, Weaken’d the Colony, and given the Natives the Boldnefs to attack them as they did, but for what Reafon he could not imagine. Tew gave himan Account of the Difafter which had happen’d; and after having mutually condol’d their Misfortunes, Tew propos’d their going to America, where Miffon might, with the Riches he - had, pafs his Life unknown, and in a comfortable anuer, Miffon anfwer’d he could not yet take any Re- folution, tho’ he had Thoughts of returning to Europe, and privately vifiting his Family, if any Where alive, and then to retire from the World. They dined with the Quafter-Mafter,who prefs’d their Return to America, to procure a Commiffion for the fettling a.Colony. Miffon told Tew, he fhould have one of the Sloops, tnd what Volunteers would keep him Company, for his Misfortunes had erafed all Thoughts of future Settlements; that what, Riches they had_ faved, he would diftribute equally, nay, he would be content, if he had only a bare Support left im, . On this Anfwer, four of the Quarter-Mafter’s Company offer’d to join Captain Tew. _ In the Afternoon they vifited both Sloops, and Uifon putting the Queftion to the Men, ety, : - wen / 108 Of Captain Tew. went on board of one Sloop, tho’ they parted with great Reluttance from their old Commander ; and fifteen ftaid. with AZfin. The four Men who join’d Tew made the Number of his Crew 34; they ftaid about a Week, in hopes of the Bijoux’s Return upon the Coaft; but. fhe not appearing, they fet fail, Captain ALifon having firft thared the Trea- fure, with Tew and his other Friends and Compa- nions,hoping to meet the Bijoux on the Guiney Coaft, . for which they fhaped their Courfe. 2 Off Cape Infantes, they were over-taken with a Storm, in which the unhappy Jfiffon’s Sloop went down, within a Musket Shot of Captain Tew, ** who could give him no Affiftance. | Tew continued his Courfe for America, and ar- rived at Rhode Ifland without any Accident; his Men difperfed themfelves, as they thought fit, and Tem fent.to Bermudas for his Owners Account four- teen Times the Value of their Sloop, and not being queftioned by any, liv’d in great Tranquillity, the _ | French belonging to Adiffiz, took different Routs, “one of whom dying at Rochelle, the French Manu- . {cript of A4fin’s Life was found among his Papers, » .and tranfmitted to me by a Friend and Corre- + {pondent, | “Captain Tem lived unquettion’d, Gc. he had an : eafy Fortune, and defigned to live quietly at home ; but thofe of his Men, who lived near , him, having {quandered their Shares, were conti- ‘smually folliciting him to take another Trip: He , “= owithftood their Requeft a confiderable Time, but they having got together (by the Report they made of the vaft Riches to be acquired) a Num- ber of refolute Fellows, they, in a Body, begg’d him to head them but for one Voyage. They were fo earneft in'their Defire, that he could not refufe complying. They prepared a {malt Sloops Of Captain TEW. 109 Sloop; and made the beft of their Way to the Streights, entering the Red Sea, where they met with, and-attack’d a Ship belonging to the Great Mogul , in the Engagement, a Shot carried away the Rim of Jew’s Belly, who held his Bowels With his Hands fome fmall Space; when he | dropp’d, it ftruck fucha Terror in his Men, ‘that they fuffered themfelves to be taken, without Taking Refiftance. 9 > ¥ » @ fo) : ye ee CATIA ATATAOS O F Capt. HAL SEY, And his C REW. gland, commanded the Charles Brigantine, and went out with a Commiffion from the Go~ vernor, to cruize on the Banks of Newfoundland, where he took a French Banker, which he appoint- ed to meet him at Fyal;*but miffing his Prize here, he went among the Cazary Iflands, where he took a Spanifh Barcalonga, which he plundered and funk ; from'thence he went to the Ifland of Bravo one of the Cape deVerd, where he wooded and water- ed, turn’d-athore his Lieutenant, and feveral of his Men here running away from him, the Governor fent them on board again, his Commiffion being as yet in Force ; from hence he ftood away then to the Southward, and doubling the Cape of Good Hop made for Madagafcar and the Bay of Auguftiney where he took in Wood and Water, with fome ftraggling Seamen, who were caft: away in the Degrave India Man, Capt. Young, Commander. Af- Af HN Halfey was a Bofton Man, of New Ex ter this, he fhap’d his Courfe for the Red Sea, and met with a Dutchman of 60 Guns, coming from Mocha, whom he kept Company with a Week. Tho’ he was refolyed upon turning Pyrate, he in- tended Of Captain HALSEY. yrn fended to rob only. the Afoor Ships, which occa- fioned a Difpute between him and his Men; they -infifting on the Ship’s being a Afcor, he as. ftre- Nuouily .afferting fhe was Dutch, was pofitive in his Refolve of meddling with no European Ships. The Men were for boarding, but his Obftinacy nor being to be conquered, they broke & al/ey aud-his ’ Gunner, confining both, and were ready to board the Dutchman, when one of the Crew perceiving he was about to run out his lower Tire, knock’d’ down the Quarter-Mafter (whofe Bufineis it is to _ be at the Helm in Time of Ciafe or Engagement, according to the Rules of Pyjates) clapp’d the Helm hard a.Weather, and .wore the Brigantine: The Dutchman ftaid, aud fired a Shot, which ta- Kiug a Swivel Gun carried it aft, narrowly mifs'd the Man at Helm, and fhatter’d the Tafrel; the Men perceiving they had catch’d a Tartar, made the beft.of their Way to fhake her otf, and fome Were running down between Decks, whom the Sur- eon prick’d up again with his Sword, tho’ he ho Way. was confenting to their defigu’d Pyracy, The Captain and a Gunner were again reinftated after they had feen.their Miftake, and then they feer’d for the Nicobar Mlands, where they met With a Country Ship, called the Buffalo, comman- ded by Captain Buckley, an. Englifhman, coming from Bengal, which they, took after a hort: Ens. Sagement, there being only three Europeans aboard, the Captain and two Mates, the reft-were Voors. This Ship fell feafonably in their Way, the being bound for Achen, with Butter, Rice, and Cloath, and the Pyrates, at that Time, being in: great Streights both fos Provifion.and Cloathing.. They took the two Mates to Sea.with them, but left the Captain and the Ascors at Cara Nicobar, at an Anchor, and then took a Cruize. . Captain Buck- ley, who was fick, died before their Return; aa vi the T12 Of Captain HALSEY. the Cruize they met with Captain Collins in a Couti- try Sloop, bound alfo to Achen : He had alfo two Englifh Mates with him,but the reft of his Company confifted of Afoors; him they carried to the fame Harbour where they left the Buffalo. Here a Difpute arofe among the Pyrates, fome were for returning to the Weft Indies, others were againft it, for they had got no Money, and that was what engaged their Search ; they parted upon this; one Part went on board the Buffalo, made one Rowe Captain, and Atyers, a Frenchman, Matter, whom they had pick’d up at A4adagafcar. The Sloop’s Deck they ripp’d up, and mended with it the Bot- tom of the Brigantine, which Halfey fill comman- - ded; the Ship fhaped her Courfe for AZadaga/car, and the Brigantine made for the Streights of AZz- lacea, to lie in theTra&t of the A¢anila Ships. I muft ebferve, that Capt. Buckley’s two Mates, whom they intended to force with them, were by Strength of Intreaty, permitted to go away with a Canoe. In thefe Streights, they met an Exrope built Ship, of 26 Guns, which they had not the Courage to at- _ tack, being four’d by the Dutchman. They after- wards ftood in. Shore, and came to an Anchor 5 few Days after they made a Veffel, which they fuppofed a China Jonque, and gave Chafe,but when they came pretty nigh, notwithftanding the Pi- Jot affured them, fhe was what they fuppofed, they fwore it was a Dutchman, and would not ven- ture upon him; fo leaving off their Chafe ftood in Shore, and came -again to an Anchor under the Peninfula, they lay here fome Days, and then fpied a tall Vetlel, which they chafed, and proved the Albemarle Eaft India Man, Captain Bews, Com- ’ mander, come trom Chiza ; they came up with him, but thinking it too warm a Ship, after’ ex- changing a few Shot, the Brigantine made off, and the Albemarle chafed in her Turn: They however : got ty > SS. Ww ef VAVUEVEV SST Tay ry SF 4 MEME Y AST Rx, LOAD ROAST Se Of Captain HALSEY.. .tt3 Bot élear, having a better Share of Heels, and Came again to an Anchor, having not above 40 Hands, their Water growing {carce, and. not daring “to venture afhore for Fear of the Dutch, a Council — Was called, and it was refolved to make the beft Of their Way to Adadagafcar, to pick up more Hands, refrethy and fet out on new Adventures ; Purfuant to: this Refolution, they fteer’d for that Wand, but fell in their Way on Adafcarenas, where, Making a {mall Prefent to the Governor, they were fupplied with what they wanted ;’ from ‘hence they Went to a Place on Madagafcar, call’d by the Py- ‘lates Hopeful Point; by the Natives, Harangby, near the Iland of St. Mary's, on’ the Lat. of 17. 40S. Where they met with the Buffalo,-and the Dorothy, ® Prize, made by Captain Thomas White and his Company, being about 90 or 100 Men, fettled near the fame Place, in petty Governments of their own, having fome of them 500 or°600,. fome 1000 'Ne- Stoe Subjects, who acknowledged their Sovereign ‘y. Here they? again repaired their Brigantine, ‘Took in Provifions' and all Neceffaries, augmented their Company to about too Men, and fet out for the: Red Sea’, they touch’d at Fohanna, and there took in a Quantity of Goats and Cocoa Nuts for ‘fre Provifions, and’thence in eleven Days reach’d the: Streights ‘of Babel Mandel: They had -not ‘tuifed) here’many Days, when they fpied’ tle © Moors Fleet from Mocha and Fufa, confifting of 25 Sail, which they” fell in with, ‘and ‘had been’ ta« ens af their Oars had not’ help’d’ them ‘off, it fal- Sy a dead Calm. They had not apprehended the anger fo-great, if they had not judged thefé Ships | peed by fome Portuguefe Men of War" Some Ys after this, they met a one Matt Veffel, called ents coming from Jfocha, which’ they’ {pied Pica Gun-Shot, in'a thick Fog they fired’ a A0t which’ out het Halliards, and then they took Vor, I, SS a Pofe 44 Of Captain Hat ser. Poffeffion of her with their Boats ; fhe was laden with Drugs, but they took only tome Neceffaries and 2002 Dollars, and having earned that 4.E% glifh Veflels lay at Mocoa, of which one was from Sufa, they let her go. i ?} Three Days after they {pied the 4 Ships, which they at firft took for the Trees of Babel Mandel 4 -at Night they fell in with, and kept them Com- pany till Morning, the Trumpets founding on both Sides all the Time, for the Pyrate had two 0} board as well as the Englifh When it was cleat Day the four Ships drew into a Line, for: they. had haled the Pyrate, who made no Ceremony of owning who. he was, by anfwering according: t? their Manner From the Seas. The Brigantine bore -up till fhe had flung her Garf. One of the ShipS perceiving this, advifed Captain %ago, who: led the Van, in a Ship of 24 Guns and 70 Men, t? give Chace, for the Pyrate was on the Run ; but .a Mate, who was acquainted with the Way of _ working among Pyrates, anfwered he would find his Miftake, and faid he had feen many a warm Day, but. feared this would be the hotteft. . Th¢ Brigantine turw’d up again, and coming a Stet? , -elapp’d the Rifing Eagle aboard, a Ship of 16 Guns aid, the Sternmoit, tho’ they entered their Me”, the Rifing Eagle held them a warm Difpute for 3 Quarters of an Hour, in which Captain Chamber- lain’s chief Mate and feveral others were killed the Purfer was wounded, jumped over-board, an _to Captain Jago to board the Pyrate ; who bearin’ a Shot, which raked him fore and aft, and dete! - mined Captain Yago to get out of Danger ; for bé run away with all the Sail he could pack, tho’ b? was fitted out to protect the Coaft againft PY* _ rates, His Example was followed by the reft, every aree sip drowned : In the mean while the other Ships call’d a away, to clap him aboard, the Pyrate gave hi™ i: Of Captain HALSEY. “Tg Une fteering a different Courfe: Thus they became Mafters of the Rifing Eagle. I'can’t but take No- tice, that the fecorid Mate of the Rifing Eagle, after Quarters were called for, fired from out of the Forecaftle, and killed two of the Pyrates, one of Whom was the Gunner’s Confort, who would have Tevenged his Death” by fhooting the Mate, but fe- Veral Jrifh and Scors, together with one Captain Tho- mas White, once a Commander among the Pyrates, _ but*then a private Man, interpofed and faved him, M§'regard that’ he was ‘an. Jrifhman. They ex- ‘mined the Prifoners to know which was the Ship Came from‘ Fuffa; for that had Money on board; And having learn’d it was the Effex, they gave Chace, came up with her, hoifted the bloody Flag ’t the Mainmaft-head, fired one fingle Gun, and the truck ; tho’ the E/fex was fitted for clofe Quar- ters) theré were not on board the Brigantine above 20 Hands, and the Prize was a Stern fo far, that her Top-matt fcarce appeared out of the Water; in Shacing this Ship, they pafs’d the other two, who held the Fly of their Enfigns in their Hands rea~ ly to ftrike. When the Ship had ftruck, the Captain of her asked who commanded that Byi- Santine, he was-an{wered, Captain Haley; asking Zain who was Quarter-Mafter ? He was told, Na Thaniel. North, to whom he called, as he knew him Yery well. North learning his Name was Punt, faid Captain Thomas Punt, Tam forry you are fallen into tr Hands , heewas civilly treated, and nothing belonging to himfelf or the Enxglifh Gentlemen, Who were Paffengers, touch’d, tho’ they made bold - to lay Hands on 400001. in Money belonging to ‘the Ship. They had about 10000 |. in Money out f'the Rifing Eagle. They difcharged the Effex, and “ith the other Prize and the Brigantine, fteer’d for Madagafcar, where they arrived and fhared their Booty. Some of the Paffengers, who had been fo rz well , 116 Of Captain HALSEY. well treated,-came afterwards with a {mall Ship from India (with Licenfe from the Governor of Maderas) called the Greyhound, laden with Necel faries, in Hopes to barter with. the Pyrates for the dry Goods they had taken, and recover them at an eafy Rate: They were received very, kind- ly, an Invoice of their Goods wasasked, the. Goods agreed for, fhared and paid: in, Money and Bale Goods. In the mean while-came in a Ship from Scotland, called the Neptune, 26 Guns, 54 Men, com- manded by Captain Fames Adiller, with a Defign t?. flave, and to go thence to Batavia to difpofe.? her Negroes (having: a' Supercargo,,on} board, brought up among the Dutch) and thence to Ja lacco, to take on board the Cargo of a Ship, call’d the Speedwell, loft.on her Returi-from China 5, but finding here another Ship trading with the Py- rates, and having many’ Neceffaries, French Bran dy, Adadera Wine, and Englifh Stout on board, CaP tain Miller thought it better to trade for Money than Slaves. The Merchants of the Greyhound nettled to fee any’ but themfelves take Money, for the Pyrates never haggled abouta Price, told ’ems They could not do the Governor of Maderas a more grate ful Piece of Service, than to make Prize of the Neptunes which was a Ship fit for their Purpofe. To which fom’ of the Scotch and Jrifh anfwered, they had noe. bef put fuch a Defign on Foot, for if the Company once gt at into their Heads to take one, they'd go nigh-to take bot h Ships. In afhort Time after came on a Hurricanes which obliged the Neptune to cut away all het Mafts, and loft the three Ships belonging to thé Pyrates, which was their whole Fleet. They ha. ving now no Ship, and feveral of them no Money? having been ftripp’d at Play, theirThoughts wet? bent on the Neptune. The Chief Mate of her Danit! . Burgis, who had a Spleen to the Captaiii,joining pr” _wately with the Pyrates (among whom he died) 30% all Of Captain HALSEY, 117 ll the {mally Mafts and Yards afhore ; and the Py- tates being requefted to find him proper Trees for Matting, told Captain Afiller; they had found fuch % would ferve his Turn, defiring he would take | & Number of Hands afhore to get them down to the Water, which he ({ufpeéting no harm) accor- dingly did, and he and his Men were feized, and the Long Boat detained afhore. The Captain was teed to fend for the fecond Mate, and after- Wards for the Gunner; the Mace, who was the Captain’s Brother, went, but the Gunner fufpeé- ing foul Play refufed: In the Evening Burge/s “ime on board, and advifed the Surrender of the hip, which, tho” but fixteen were left on board, they fcrupled, and propoled going under the Co- _ Yer of their.own Guns to fetch their Top-matts nd Yards, and with them to put to Sea; but the Chief Mate Burge/t, whofe Villany was not then Nown, ‘perfuaded them to give up a Ship they Could neither defend nor fail; which was no fmall Satisfa&tion to the Merchants in the Greyhound, ‘ttle thinking how foon they would meet with the {ameTreatment’; for twoDays after the Pyrates Mann’d the Neptune’s Pinnace, feized the Greyhound, ‘ook away all the Money they had paid, and Ahifting out of the Neprune ten Pipes of Atadera, With two Hogfheads of Brandy, into the Greyhound, nd patting on board the Captain, fecond Mate, Oatfwain and Gunner of the Weptune, and about - ™4 of her Hands, ordered her to Sa; the reft o the Aeprune’s Company being young Men fit for heir Purpofe, they detained, moft of which, by hard drinking, fell into Diftempers and died. As . Captain Halfey, while the Scotch Ship was fit. Ing, he fell ill of a Fever, died and was buried With great Solemnity and Ceremony ; the Prayers Sf the Church of Evgland were read over him, “Olours were flying, and his Sword and Pittol laid ES eR 118 Of Captain HALSEY. _on his Coffin, which was covered) witha -Ship’s . Jack 3 as many Minute Guns fired as he was, Years , Old, viz. 46, and three EnglifhVollies, and one Frevch Volley of {mall Arms. He was brave-in his Perfon, courteous to all his Prifoners, lived. be- loved, anid died regretted by his own People, His Grave was made in a Garden of Water Melons, and fenced in with Pallifades to prevent his be- ing rooted up by wild Hogs, of which there aré Plenty in thofe Parts, rave: P. S. The Neptune feized as above, was the Year after Captain Hal/ey’s Death, ready to go to Sea; but a Hurricane happening the was loft, and prov’d the laft Ship that Gang of Pyrates ever got Pol- fefion of 119: EY | Cram eRNeeIa TTT aS aes 7 | Captain Thomas White, : kept a Publick Houfe, the took great Care of his Education and when he was grown — —"D, ashe had an Inclination to the Sea, procur’d . Ya the King’s Letter. After he had ferved fome. pts on board a Man of War, he went to Bgr= got into the Merchants. | Hi was born at Plymouth, where his Mother, ~ sities, where he married, 5 hewice, and defigned to fettle in the Ifland: He ~ ne the Command of the Marygold Brigantine given ou in which he made two fuccefSful Voyages to. gee and back to Barbadoes ; in his third, he had a Misfortune to be taken by a French Pyrate, — a, Were feveral other Englifh Ships, the Mafters ° id inferior Officers of which they detained, bes gin Want of good Artifts. fy te, Brigantine belonging to White they kept fy their own Ufe, and funk the Veffel they be- ae: failed in; but meeting with a Ship on the. “4ney Coaft more fit for their Purpofe, they went, ba board, her, and, burnt the Brigantine, { = \ ¥20 Of Captain THO. WHITE. It is not my Bufinefs here to give an Acount of this French Pyrate, any farther.than Captain White's “Story obliges me, tho’ I beg Leave to take No- tice of their Barbarity to the Englifh Prifoners, for they would fet them up as a-Butt or Mark to thoot at , feveral of whom were thus murdered in cool Blood, by Way of Diverfion. White was marked out for a Sacrifice by one of thefe Villains, who, for I know not what Reafon,. had {worn his Death, which he efcaped thus- One of the Crew, who had a Friendfhip for White, knew this Fellow’s Defign, to kill him in the Night, and therefore advifed him to lye be- tween him and the Ship’s Side, with Intention to fave him; which indeed he did, but was himfelf Shot dead by the murderous Villain, who miftook. him for White; but this by the Bye. : After fome Time cruizing along the Coaft, the Pyrates doubled the Cape of Good Hope, and shaped their Courfe for Atadagafcar, where, being drunk and mad, they knock’d their Ship on the Head, at the South End of the Ifland, at a Place called by the Natives Elexa; the Country thereabouts was governed by a King, named Aafaly. When the Ship ftruck, Captain White, Captain Boreman, (born in the Ifle of White, formerly a | ieu- tenant of a Man of War, but in the Merchants Service when he fell into the Hands of the Py- rates) Captain Bowen and fome other Prifoners got to the long-Boat, and with broken Oars and Bar- rel Staves, which they found in the Bottom of the Boat, paddled to Auguftine Bay; that is about ¥4 or 15 Leagues from the Wreck where they, Janded, and were kindly received by the King of Bavaw (the Name of that Part of the Ifland) whe {poke good Englifh. They Of Captain Too. WHITE. ‘128 They ftaid here a Year and a half at the King’s Expence, who gave them a plentiful Allowance of Provifion, as was his Cuftom to all White Men, Who met with any Misfortune on his Coaft; his ‘umanity not only provided for all fuch, but the fick European Veffel that came in, he always obli- §ed them to take in the unfortunate People, let the Veffel be what it would; for he had no No- tion of any Difference between Pyrates and Mer- chants, ‘ ‘ At the Expiration of the above Term, a Pyrate Brigantine came in, aboard which the King obli- Sed them to enter, or travel by Land to fome Other Place, which they durft not do ; and of two Evils chofe the leaft, that of going on board the Pyrate Veffel, which was commanded by one IWil- liam Read, who received them very civilly. _This Commander went along the Coaft, and Pick’d up what Ezopeans he could meet with; his Crew however did not exceed forty Men, he Would have been glad of taking on board fome of the wreck’d Frenchmen, but for the Barbarity they tad ufed towards the Englifh Prifoners; however, _ twas impratticable,for the French pretending to lord over the Natives, whom they began to treat ithumanly, were‘ fet upon by them, one half of their Number cut off, and the other half made Slaves, ss as : . Read, with this Gang, and a Brigantine of 60 Tons, fteer’d his Courfe for the Gulf of Perfia, Where they met a Grabb (a one mafted Vellel) Of about 200 Tons, which was made Prize. They found nothing on board but Bale Goods, - Moft of which they threw over-board to feareh for Gold, and to make Room in’ the Veffel; but — 48 they learned afterwards, they threw over in their Search, what they fo greedily hunted after, “or there was a confiderable Quantity of Gold Lf aiisas : COn-= 122 Of Captain Too. WHITES, concealed in one of the Bales they tofs’d into ~ the Sea.~ Oraidy o éthers285 In this Cruife Captain Read fell il] and died; he was fucceeded by one James. The Brigantine be- ing imal], crazy, and worm eaten, they thaped their Courfe for the Ifland of Afagotta, where they took out the Mafts of the Brigantine, fitted up the Grabb, and made a Ship of her: Here they took in a Quantity of frefh Provifion, which is in this Ifland very plentiful, and very cheap; and found’ a twelve oar’d Boat, which formerly belonged to the Ruby Eaft India Man, which had, been loft there. They ftaid here all the Mouffon Time, which is about fix Months; after which they. refolved for Madazafcar. As they came in with the Land, they {pied a Sail coming round from the Eaft Side of the Ifland; they gave Chafe on both Sides, fo that they foon met: They haled each other, and receiving the fame Anfwer from each Veilel, viz. from the Seas, they joined Company. This Velfel was a {mall French Ship, laden with Liquors from Afartinico, firftcommanded by one Four- gette, to trade with the Pyrates for Slaves, at_Am- bonamoula, on the Eaft Side the Ifland, in the Late of 17. 30. and was by them taken after the fol- lowing Manner. . The Pyrates,- who were headed by George Booth, Commander of the Ship, went on board (as they had often done) to the Number of ten, and car- ried Money with them under, Pretence of pur- chafing what they wanted. (This Booth had for- merly been Gunner of a Pyrate Ship, called the Dolphin) Captain Fourgette was pretty much upon. his Guard, and fearched every Man as he came. over the Side, and a Pair of Pocket Piftols were found upon a Dutchman, who. was the firft enter’d 5, the Captain told him, he masa Rogue, and, bad ay Defigns Of Coptain THO. WHITE, = 123 Defign upon his Ship, avd the Pprates pretended to be fo angry with this Fellow’s offering to come On board with Arms, that they threatned to knock on the Head, and toffing him roughly into the Boat, ordered him afhore, tho’ they. had before taken an Oath on. the Bible, either to carry the Ship or die in the Undertaking, They were all fearched, but they however con- trived to get on board 4 Piftols, which were all the Arms they had for the Enterprize, tho” Fourgerte had 26 Hands on board, and his fmall Arms on the Arning to be in Readinefs. The Captain invited them into the Cabbin to Dinner, but Booth chofe to dine with the petty Reet tho’ one ohufon, Ifaac, and another, went Gown, . : : Booth was to give the Watch Word, which was Flurrah ; he pretending to make Water over the Side of the Gunnel, laid his Hand on the Arning, and being a nimble Fellow, at one Spring threw himfelf upon it, drew the Arms to him, fired his Piftol forward among the Men, one of whom he Wounded, (who jumping over-board was loft) and bave the Signal. Three I faid were in the Cabbin, and feven Upon Deck, who with Handfpikes and the Arms feized, fecured the Ship’s Crew. The Captain and his two Mates, who were at Dinner in the Cabbin, hearing the Piftol, fell upon obnfox, and ftabb’d him in feveral Places with their Forks, but they being Silver, did him no great Damage. Fourgette fhatch’d his Piece which he fnapp’d at J/zac’s Breaft feveral Times, but it would not go off ; at laft, finding his Refiftance vain, he fubmitted, and the Pyrates fet him, and thofe of his Men who would Not join them, on Shore, allowing him to take his Books, Papers, and whatever elfe he claimed as belonging to himfelf; and befides treating him very ionget es oe humanly \ 124 Of Captain THO. Wuree, humanly gave him feveral Casks of Liquor, with Arms and Powder, to purchafe Provifions in the Country. I hope this Digreffion, as it was in a Manner needful, will be excufed ; I thall now proceed. After they had taken in the Dolphin’s Company which were on the Ifland, and encreafed by,.that Means their Crew to the Number of 80 Hands, they fail’d to St. Mary’s, where Captain Afoffon’s Ship lay at Anchor, between the Ifland and the Main: This Gentleman and his whole Ship’s Com- pany had been cut off, at the Inftigation of Ort- Vantyle, a Dutchman of New-York. Out of her they took Water Casks and other WNecetlaries, which having done, they defigned for the River AZethelage, on the Weft Side Aadagafcar, in the Lat.of 16 or thereabouts, to falt up Pro- vifions and to proceed to the Eaff Indies, cruize off the Iflands of St. Sobn, and lie in Wait for the Moors Ships from Mocha. : In their Way to AZethelage they fell in (as I have faid) with the Pyrate, on board of which was Captain White 5 they join’d Company, came to an Anchor together in the above-nam’d River, where they had cleaned, falted up, taken m their Pro- vifions, and were ready to go to Sea, when a large Ship appeared in Sight, and ftood into the fame River. Tk inten The Pyrates knew not whether fhe was a Mer- chant Man or Man of War; fhe had been the latter, belonging to the French King, and could mount 50 Guns; but being taken by the Englifh, fhe was bought by fome London Merchants, and fit- ted out from that Port, to flave at Afadagafcar, and go to Jamaica. The Captain was a young unexpe- rienced Man, who was put in with a Nurfe.. “The Of Captain THO. WHITE. 125 The Pyrates fent their Boats to fpeak with him, but the Ship firing at them, they concluded it a n of War, and rowed to Shore, the two Py- tates flipp’d and run, afhore; the Grabb ftanding in, and not keeping her Wind {fo well as the French uilt Ship, run among a Parcel of Mangroves, and @ Stump piercing her Bottom, fhe funk the other fun aground, let go her Anchor,’ and:came to no Damage, for the Tide of Flood fetch’d her of. The Captain of the Speaker, for that was the Name of the Ship which frighten’d the Pyrates, Was not a little vain of having forced thefe two Veffels afhore, tho’ he did not know whether they Were Pyrates or Merchant Men, and could not help €Xpreffing himfelf in thefe Words; Am will my Name ring on the Exchange, when it is known I have "in two Pyrates aground, which gave Handle to a fa- tyrical Return from‘one of his\Men after he was taken; who faid, Lord, How cur Captain’s Name. will ting on' the Exchange, when it is heard, he frighten’d — fo Pyrate Ships afhore, and was taken by their two Boats | afterwards. : When the Speaker came within Shot, the fired fe- Veral at the two Veffels; and when fhe came to #n Anchor, feveral'more into the Country, which alarm’d the Negroes, who, acquainting their King, he would allow him noTrade,till:the Pyrates living athore, and who had a Defign ‘on his Ship, inter- Ceded for ’em, telling. the King, they were their Countrymen, and, what had happened was thro’a take, it beingya Cuftom among them to fire their Guns by Way lof Refpett, and it was owing 0 the Gunner of the Ship’s Negligence, that they BEd Shots. boos’! iat : The Captain of the Speaker fent his Purfer athore, £0 g0up the Country to the King, who lived'about . it Miles from the Coaft, to carry a couple’ of “Mall Arms inlaid with Gold, a couple of Brafs Blunder- 12600 Of Captain THO. WHITE. Blunderbuffes, and a Pair. of Piftols, as Prefents, and to require Trade. Bt As foon.as the Purfer was afhore, he was taken Prifoner, by one Tom Collins, aWelchmay, born in Pembroke, who lived on Shore; and had -belong’d to the Charming Mary of Barbadoes, which went out “with a Commiifion, but was converted to'a Pyrate; che told the Purfer, he was his Prifoner, and muft anfwer the Damage done two Merchants, who were -flaving. } » The Purfer anfwer’d, that he was not Commanr- , ‘der, that the Captain was.a hot rafh Youth, put anto a Bufinefs by his Friends, which he did not underftand; but however, Satisfaction’ fhould » be made. ~» He was.carried by Collins on board Booth's Ship, _ .where, at firft, he was talked to in pretty ftrong Terms; but after a while very civilly us’d, and the next Morning fent up to the King: with a Guide, and Peace made for him, as already faid. The King allowed them.Trade, and fent down the ufual Prefents, a couple of Oxen, between 20 -and 30 People laden with Rice, and as many «more with the Country Liquor, called Toke. - ». The Captain then fettled the Fa&ory on the Shore Side, and. began to»buy. Slaves and Provi- -fions ; the-Pyrates were among them, and had Op- portunities of founding the Men, and knowing in what Pofture the Ship Jay... They. found by one Hugh Man, belonging to the Speaker, that there were not above 40 Men on board, and that they had loft the fecond Mate'and 20 Hands in the Long Boat, on the Coatt, before they came into this Har- bour, but that they kept a good Look-out, and had their Guns ready primed; however, he, for a hundred Pounds, undertook to wet all the Pri- ming, and affift in the taking the Ship.. : ‘After. YOUVE VaVex wy PALI NTI Of Captain THo. WHITE. 127 ’ | After fome Days'the Captain of the Speaker came On Shore, and was received with a great Deal Of Civility by the Heads of the’ Pyrates, having @reed before to make Satisfaction ; in a Day or two after, he was invited by them to eat a Bar- bacute Shoot, which Invitation he accepted. __After’Dinner, Captain Bowen,’ who was, I have : already faid, a Prifoner’on board the French Py- tate, but: now become one of the Fraternity, and “Matter of the Grab, went out, and returned with ~* Cafe of Piftols in his Hand, and. told the Cap- tain of the Speaker, whofe Name I won’t mention, that he was his Prifoner ; he asked, upon what Ccount:2?) Bowen anfwered, they wanted a Ship, his Was a good One, and they were refolved to have fet, to make amends for the Damage he had done OM. i5ii eae ~ In the mean while his Boats Crew, and the reft Of this Men afhore, were told by other of the Py- ~Tates; who were drinking with them, that they Were alfo Prifoners ; fome of them anfwer’d, Z--ds, We don’t trouble our Heads what we are, let's have Pother Bom! of Punch. 0" ; A Watch Word was given, and no Boat to be admitted on board the Ship; this Word, which Was for that Night,. Coventry, was known to them : At Eight. a-Clock they mann’d the twelve-oar’d Boat, and that they found at Afayotta, with 24 €n, and fet out for the Ship. -\ When they were put off, the Captain of the “Speaker defired them to come back, he wanted to feak with them; Captain Booth asked, what he Wanted ?. He faid, they could never take his Ship, then. faid Booth, we'll die in or along Side of her ; sh Out replied the Captain, if you will go with Safe- 'y, don’t board on the Lar-board Side, for there is * Gun out of the Steerage loaden’ with dessert ; wil ? TAD CLETUS VEVEVE LE VEUTVEVY 128 Of Captain To. WHITE, will clear the Decks ; they thank’d him, and pro* ceeded, When they were near the Ship they were haled; and the Anfwer was, the Coventry ; all well, faid thé Mate, get the Lights over the Side, but fpying the fecond Boat, he asked what Boat that was? one anfwered, it was a Raft of Water, another, that it was a Boat of Beef; this. Difagreement in thé Anfwers made the Mate fufpicious, who cried out Pyrates, take to your Arms my Lads, and immediate Jy clapp’d.a Match to’a Gun, which, as the Pri- ming was before wet by the Treachery ‘of Augh _ Man, only fizz’d they boarded in the Inftant, and made themfelves Mafters of her, without the Lof$ of a Man on either Side, The next Day they put neceflary Provifions 00 board the French built Ship, and gave her to thé _ Captain of the Speaker, and thofe Men who would go off with him, among whom was Aan, who had betray’d his Ship; for the Pyrates had both paid him the 1001. agreed, and) kept his Secret, The Captain having thus loft his Ship, faild in that the Pyrates gave him, for Johanna, where he fell ill and died with Grief, ©>« / Z The Pyrates having heré: vidtualled, they fail’d for the Bay of St. Auguftine, where they took it between 70 and 80 Men, who had belonged. to the Ship Alexander, commanded by Captain Yames, 2 Pyrate; they alfo took up her Guns, and mounte the Speaker with 54, which made up their Num- ber 240 Men befides Slaves, of which they. had about 20. tae Seogt: From hence they failed for the Eaff Indies, but ftopp’d at Zanguebar for freth Provifions, where the Portuguefe had orice a Settlement, but now inha- bited by Arabians; fome of them went. afhore with the Captain to buy Provifions, the Captait 3 wa , ‘ay Herauly And ad Of Captain THO. WHITE. 149 "as font for by the Governor, who went with bout 14in Company: They paft thro’ the Guard, | wid when they were entered the Governor’s Hout, they were all cut off; and, at the fame me, others who were in different Houfes of the Town were fet upon, which made them fly to the fhore, the Long-Boat, which lay off at a Grap- NE, was immediately put in by thofe who look’d witer her: There were not above half a dozen of a Pyrates who brought their Arms athore, but Ra. Dlyed them fo well, for they were in the wat, that moft of the Men got into her, the wittter-Mafter ran down Sword in Hand, and fap Ue was attack’d by many, he behaved ‘him. a fo well, that he got into a little Canoe, put “t off and reached the Long-Boat. _ In the Interim, the little Fort the Arabians had; Blayrg ‘upon the Ship, which returned the Salute iy warmly. Thus they got on board, with the f§ of Captain Booth and twenty Men, and fet Sai for the Eaft-Indies. 4, hen they were under Sail, they went to Vos wre for a new Captain, and the Quarter-Mafter, Mi had- behaved fo. well in the lat Affair with Co, Arabians, was chofén; but he declining all ty tmand, the Crew made Choice of Bowen for Cap- 1s Pickering to fucceed him as Mafter, Samuel th, ity &@ Frenchman, for Quarter-Mafter, and Na- el North, for Captain Quarter-Mafter, ye hings being thus fettled, they came to the ath of the Red Sea, and fell in with 13, Sail of “ws Ships, which they kept Company with the ereater Part of the Day, but were afraid to vene Me On them as they took them for Portuguefe S10f War; at length part were for boarding, no. aaVifed it, the Captain, tho’ he faid little, did hoe inclin’d, for he was but a young Pyxate, ® an old Commander of a Merchant Man. Vou, ie ; K : Thofe VEVEVEVUVEVET 130 Of Captain THO. WHITE. __ Thofe who puth’d for boarding then, defired Captain Boreman, already mentioned, to take thé Command; but he faid, he would not ufurp of any, that no Body was more fit for it than hé who had it, that for his Part, he would ftand by his Fufil, and went forward to the Forecaftle wit! fuch as'‘would have had him taken the Commands to be ready to board; on which, the Captain’ -Quarter-Mafter faid, if they were refolyed to en? gage their Captain, (whofe Reprefentative he was) did not want Refolution, therefore, he orderé them to get their Tacks on board (for they had already made a clear Ship) and get ready fot boarding.; which they accordingly did, and com ing up with the fernmoft Ship, they fired a Broad fide into her, which killed two A@ors, clapp’d het on board and carried her; but Night coming 0% they made only this Prize, which yielded them 00 1. per Man. . .. From hence they failed to the Coat of Afallabar 4 the Adventures of thefe Pyrates on this Coaft at? already fet down in Captain Bowen’s Life, to which T refer the Reader, and fhall only. obferve, CaP’ tain White was all this while afore the Maft, bein® a forced Man from the Beginning. ~ ; Bowen’s Crew difperfing, Captain White went ae Methelage, where he lived afhore with the King not having any Opportunity of getting off thé Ifland, till another Pyrate Ship, cailed the Profft, rous, commanded by one Thomas Howard, who ha been bred a Lighterman on the River of Thame” came in: This Ship was taken at Auguftine, by fome Pyrates from Shore, and the Crew of the! own Long-Boat, which join’d them, at the Inf” gation of one Ranten, Boatfwain’s Mate, who w” fent for Water. They. came on board. in th? “Night and furprized her, tho” not without R& fiftance, in which the Captain’ and chief ee : killecs , a d 4 a Of Captain THO. Witrre. 131 Killed, and feveral others wounded, the Particulars Of which will be found in Aore’s Life. Thofe who “Were afhore with Captain White, refolving to en- ter in this Ship, determined him to. go alfo, rather © than be left alone with the Natives; hoping, by “me Accident er ether, to have an Opportunity of feturning home. He continu’d om board this Ship, 1 which he was made, Quarter-Mafter, till théy Met with, and all-went on board of Bowen, as is fet down in his Life, in which Ship he continued after Boren lett them, as fhall be meationed in the Ap- : Pendix., At Port. Dolphin he went off in the Boat to eh fome of the Crew left afhoar, the Ship being Slown to Sea the Night before. The Ship not be- We able to getin, and he fappofing her gone to the \ WY eft-Side of the Iiland, :as: they had formerly pro- Poled, he fteered that Courfe in his Boat with 26 Men, They touch’d at Auguftine expecting the Ship, yt dhe not appearing in a Week, the Time they. pated, the King order*d em to be gone, telling ’em yj.) Mmpos’d on him with Lies, for he did not bea pete they had any Ship; however, he gave ’em Tefh Provifion. They took in Water, and made °F Methelage. Here, 2s Captain White was known ‘ak the King, they were kindly received, and ftaid hea a Fortnight in Expectation of their Ship, but fj i Not appearing, they raifed their Boat a-ftreak, wit up the Provifions the King gave *em, put Wt aboard, .and ftood for the North-End of the ete defigning to go round, believing their Ship ‘ght be at the Ifland of Sc. Mary. When they ¢ : me to the North-End, the Current, which fets ¥ the North-Weft for eight Months in the Year, ‘So ftrong. they found it impofiible to get round. t etefore they got intoa Harbour; of which there th, Many for fall Veffels.’ Here they ftaid about _ Wen’ Weeks or a Month, when part: of the Crew. ~ *te for burning the Boat, and for travelling over | K 2 Land 1 Ce Nr Whe wade 2 Se Nos Reve Rove Ry 432 Of Captain THO. WHITE. Land toa black King of their Acquaintance, whof@ Name was Reberimbo, who lived at a Place called Alanangaromafigh, in the Latitude of 15, or theres abouts. As this King had been feveral times affift- ed by theWhites in his Wars, he was a great Friend tothem. Captain White diflwaded them from this Undertaking, and, with much ado, faved the Boat 3 but one half of the Men being refolved to go by Land, they took what Provifions they thought ne- ceffary, and fet out, Captain White, and thofe wh? - ftaid with him, convoy’d’em a Day’s Journey. and ? ? y VY then returning, he got into the Boat with his Com- - -panions, and went back to Afethelage, fearing thefe Men might return, prevail with the reft, and bur? the Boat. Here he built a Deck on his Boat, and lay bY three Months, in which Time there came in thre€ Pyrates with a Boat, who had formerly been tre- pann’d on board the Severn and Scarborough Men of War, which had been looking fot Pyrates 0” the Haft-Side, from which Ships they made the! efcape at Afcbila, ina {mall Canoe to Johanna, and from Gobanna to Afayotta, where the King built em the Boat which brought ’em to Methelage. The Time of the Current’s fetting with Violence to thé North-Weft being over, they proceeded togethe* in White’s Boat (burning that of Afayotta) to thé North-End, where the Current running yet t0? ftrong to get round, they went into a Harbour and ftaid there a Month, maintaining themfelves with Fith and wild Hog, of which there was great Ple!* ty. At length, having a Slatch of fine Weathels and the Strength of the Current abating, they g2° round ; and after failing about 40 Mile on the Batt, Side, they went into a Harbour, where they fou” a Piece of -a Jacket, which they knew belong’d t? . ‘one of thofé Men who had left ’em to goover Lands he had been a forced Man, and a Ship Carpe Z : : ¢ ae CSurvrer sy Be 2 Rv Roe 5 Of Captain THO. WHITE. 133 they fuppofed he had torn to wrap round his Set, that Part of the Country being barren and y. Asthey failed along this Coaft, they came n Anchor in convenient Harbours every Night, . they got as far as Adanangaremafigh where King th *rimbo vefided, where they went in to enquire for *ir Men, who left’em at the North-End, and to *cruit with Provifions. The latter was given’em, ut they could have no Information of their Com- Panions, ‘ 3 weeom hence they went to the Ifland of St. AZary, €re a Canoe came off to em with a Letter directed oy white Man. They knew it to be the Hand of One of their former Ship-Mates.. The Contents ‘thisLetter was to advile em to be on their Guard, this Ly Tock to a till 4 hot truft too much to the Blacks of this Place, fy having been formerly treacherous.. They en- (ited after their Ship, and wasinform’d, that the. °mpany had given her to the Atrs, who were Phe away with her, and that they them{felves were gated at Ambonavoula, about 20 Leagues to the yathward of St. Mary, where they lived among the *8roes as fo many fovereign Princes. One of the Blacks, who brought off the Letter, i ne on board their Boat, carried them to the Place “ led Olumbab, a Point of Land made bya River on St Side, and the Sea on the other, where twelve of ‘ lived together ina large Houfe ‘they had built, fortified with about 20 Pieces of Canon. niet teft of them were fettled in {mall Compa- the Of about 12 or 14 together, more or lefs, up On faid River, and along the Coaft, every Nati- TheeY it felf, as the Englifh, French, Dutch, Go» Shy made Enquiry of their Conforts after the fies of Prizes which belong’d to them, and they at all very juftly laid by to be given them, if Me, ‘hey return’d, as were what belong’d to the Awho went over Land. Captain White hanker- K 3 , ing A ae 134 Of Captain THO. WHITE. Of Captain THo. WHITE. 135 ing after home, propofed going out again in, the , -gide up his Comiplement 60 Men. From hence he’ Bey sot ne Wns aver eager sete ine paving thaped his Courfe for the Ifland of Adayotta, where and many others agreed to go under his Com- . | he cleaned his Ship, and ftaid forthe Seafon to res mand and if they could SUPT wich 2 Sip te “Ato the Red Seas : His Provifions being taken in, the CORY ec re europe, Col SOND iain Onn y Oe Tine Proper, and the Ship well fitted, he fteer’d tion. But the others did not think it reafonable tO Babelmandel, and running into a Harbour waited he fhould have the Boat, -but that ic thould be. or the Mocha Ships. fet to Sale for the Benefit of the Company. © Ac- @here took two Giabs Jaden with Provifton anid cordingly it was fet up, and Captain White Sour : ‘faving fome fmall Money and Drugs aboard; thefe aC ROS Piece OPE ek ae ae age ape he Plunder’d of what was for his Turn, kept ’em a: Conforts, whofe Number was increas’d by others tthight by him,’*and:then let them go. Soon af of the Ship’s Crew, he went back the Way he had | ter they fpied a i SHfE; pone nicheeney age eg=: Sal eM ath hee SOE LOE Rae Zi Sea but finding her Europe built, and too firong to Ship of about 50 Tuns and 6 Guus 5 fhe had been ctempe, for it was a Dutch Man, they gave over the taken by forme Eyrates who lived at aratdn, “On the, Chace, and were glad to fhake him off, and return Haft-Side of the ifland, andfome of the Degrave Eafl- | to their Station. Fancying they were here difco-' India Max's Crew, to whom the Mafter of her retu- eed, from the Coaft of Arabia, or that the Grabs te’ Faliseg Lo-Parope.; foray ne had himfelt beens ae Siven Information of them, they ftood over for By ea CU Ae a aa Monge Le it Ebiopian Shore, keeping a good look out for the he apprehended their taking away his Ship, Wat Mech, Ships. oe ; “being then between England and France, he thought ew Days after they met with a large Snip of they might do it without being called in shia sboug 1000 Tuns and 600 Men, called the Aalabar, as Pyrates, The Pyrates who had been concerned 47% hich Elie y ehafed: “kepe\contpady: wich Gl Mieke in. taking Hergeir's Ship, for thee was his Na Rt Sook in the Morning, with the Lof only of their had gone up the Country, and left her to ne i ttlivain, and two or three Men wounded. Inthe Men belonging to the-Degrave, who had fitte tiking this Ship they damaged. tate duet ialich, ‘ herup, clean’d and tailow’d her, and got in fome » ringing their Foremaft, carrying away their Tt ate parece mecca th “ibrit, and beating in part of their upper Works, that they might light on fome Ship to return t0- the they did not think her longer fit for their Ure, theit own Country: “ha qi Xe ORe Filled har with Prifoners, gave ’em Provi- Captain White finding thefe Men propofed theis . Bove iene them away : , joining him, and going round’ to Ambonavoula, of pprome Days after this they {pied a Por raguefe Man make up a Company, which they agreed to, an@ iy J i War of geGins; WEIGH they chafed hae eeee unanimoufly chofe him Commander. They eeoed i Ver, by carrying away their Main-Top-Maft, \ dingly put to Sea, and ftood away round the Sout that they did not {peak with her, fae the Porn End of the Mfland, and touch’d at Don Mafcarent, | Sele Bob ae Noticd oF them." ih where he took in a Surgeon, and firetching ade 4 aout Days after they had left this Man of War, again to Afadagafcar, fellin with A ny ee 2) sell in witha Portuguefe Merchant-Man, ei > i ' eek ae Eby « ‘i K 4 they ; aU RVEY PVEV EVE LEVEV EV EVE len 136 Of Captain THO. WHITE. they chafed with the Englifh, Colours flying, the Chace taking White for an Englifh Man of War of Exft-India Man, made no sail to get from him, but on his coming up brought to, and fent his Boat o” board with a Prefent of Sweet-Meats for the Engiifh Captain ; his Boat’s Crew was detain’d, and the Py- rates getting into his Boat with their Arms, went 0” board, and fir’d on the Portueguefe, who being 1ur- prizd, asked if War was broke out between England and Portugal? They anfwer’d in the Affirmative, but the Captain could not believe’em. However, they took what they liked, and kept him with them. After two Days they met with the Dorothy, att Engl fh Ship, Captain Penruddock Commander, coming from Mocha. They exchanged feveral Shot in the . Chace, but when they came a Long-fide her, they entered their Men, and found no Refiftance, {he be- ing navigated by Adoors, no Europeans except the OF ficers being on board. Ona Vote they gave Captai? Penruddock (from whom they took a confiderablé Quantity of Money) the Portuguefe Ship and Cargoes with what Bales he pleafed totake out of his ow” bid Lim go about his Bufinefs, and make what be could of her. As to the Englifh Ship, they kept het for their own Ue. Soon after they plunder’d the Afalabar Ship, out of which they took as much Money as‘came to 200}* Sterling a Man,r but mifs’d ;0000 Chequins whic were hid ina Jar under a Cow’s-Stall, kept for tb@ giving Milk to the Afoor Supercargoe, an ancie® Man. They then pat the Portugucfe and Moor Pi} foners on board, the Afallabar, and fet them abou! their Bufinefs, The Day after they had fent the™ away, one Captain Benjamin Stacy, ina Ketch of 4% Guns fell into their Hands ; they took what MoneY he had, and what Goods and Provifions they wan’. ed, Among the Morey were co Dollars, a Silvet Mog and two Spoors belonging to aCouple of oer SUTUOUTVEUS HA EVIE a Of CaptainTHo. WHITE, — 137 dren on board, and under. the Care of Stacy. The Children took on for their Lofs, and the Captain asking the Reafon of their Tears, was anfwer’d by Stacy, that the above Sum and-Plate was all the - hildren had to bring them up. Captain White made a Speech to his Men, and told’em, it was cruel to rob the innocent Children = Upon which, by unanimous Confent, all was reftor’d them again; befides, they made a Gathering among _ themfelves, and made a Prefent to Stacy's Mate, and other his inferior Officers, and about 120 Dollars to the Children they then difcharged Stacy and his Crew, and made the beft of their Way out of the Red Sea 3 They’ came into the Bay of Defarr, where they found a Ketch at an Anchor, which the People had Made Prize of, by feizing the Mafter and Boat’s 'ew afhoar. They found a French Gentleman, one Monfieur Berger, on board, whom they carried with €m, took out about 2000 Dollars, and fold the Ketch to the Chief afhoar for Provifions, Hence they failed for Madagafcar, but touch’é at acarena, where feveral of em went afhoar with their Booty, about 1200 1.a Man. Here taking in freth Provifion, White fteer’d for Madagafcar, and fell 11 with Hopeful Point, where they fhar’d their Goods, and took up Settlements afhoar, where White built a Houfe, bought Cattle, took off the upper Deck of his Ship, and was fitting her up for the next Seafon, When the was near ready for Sea, Captain John Hal- fey, who had made a broken Voyage, came in witha Brigantine, which being a properer Veffel for their Tum, they defifted from working on the Ship, and _ Who had a Mind for frefh Adventures, went on board Halfey, among whom Captain White enter’d afore the Mag. At his returnto Adadagafcar,sWhite wastaken illofa Flux, which in about 5 or 6 Months eee a < nding 138 Of Captain THO. WAITE. 4 — : 139 finding his Time was drawing nigh, he made eh @ } a 8 Will, left feveral Legacies, and nam’d three Men of NOVAS STRIVES different Nations, Guardiarito a’ Son he hhad by°a MATERA IS) Woman of the Country, requiring he might be fent ‘to England with the Money he left’him, by the firft Englifh Ship, to be brought up in the Chriftian Re-_ eaxi O oF ligion in hopes he might live a eae than his C 3 - Father. ‘ He was buried with the fame Ceremony 2 . : they ufe at the Funerals of their Companions, which dptain Cc O N fe E N i, is mention’d in the Account of Halfey. Some Years after an. Englifh Ship touching there, the Guar- And his C RE W. dians faithfully difcharged theirTruft, and put him on board with the Captain, who brought up the Boy with Care, ating by him as became a Man of Probi- Coe Condent was a Plymouth Man. borna ty and Honour. but we are as yet ignorant of the Mo- sists P tives, and Time of his firft. turning Yrate; he was one of thofe who thought 5 to retire from Providence (on Governor %e’s Arrival at that Ifland) in a Sloop be- bing to Mr. Simpfon, of New York, a Few Mer- 4 ‘nt,of which Sloop he was then Quarter-Ma- “t. Soon after they left the Ifland, an Acci- . ee happened on board, which put the whole 4° into Confternation ; they had among them i Indian Man, whom fome ‘of them had beat ; i Tevenge, he got moft of the Arms forward in- ye Hold, and defigned to blow up the Sloop. | : Pon which, fome advifed fcuttling the Deck : a throwing Grenade Shells down, but Condent Bae that was too tedious and dangerous, fince the ral low might fire thro’ the Decks and kill feve- Haw! them ; he, therefore, taking a Piftol in one that and his Cutlafh in the other, leaped into wheeled 3 the Indian difcharged a Piece at him, Aa broke his Arm, but, however, he ran up \ OM a and fhot the Indian. When he was dead the ; . 424 Tew hack’d him to Pieces, and the Gunner rip- hss ping QF PPO WA whe oh ee we! AVS ‘T40 Of Captain COND ENT. ping up his Belly, tore out his Heart, broiled and eat it. After this, they took a Merchant Man, called, the Duke of York , aud fome Dilputes arifing among the Pyrates, the Captain, and one half of the Com- pany, went on board the Prize; the other half, who continued in the Sloop,.chofe Condent Captain 3 he fhaped his Courfe for the Cape de Verd Mlands, and in his Way, took a Merchant Ship from Afa- derat, laden with Wine, bound for the Weff Indies, which he plundered and let go; then coming to the Ifle of May, one of the faid Iflands, he took the whole Salt Fleet, confifting of about 29 Sail 5 he wanting a Boom, took out the Mainmoft of one of thefé Ships, to fupply the Want: Here he took upon him the Adminiftration of Juftice, en- quiring into the Manner of the Commander’s Be- haviour to their Men, and thofe, againft whom Complaint was made, he whipp’d and pickled. He took what Provifions. and other Neceifaries he wanted, and having augmented his Company, by Voluntiers and forced Men, he left the Ships and, failed to St. Jago, where he took a Dutch Ship, which had formerly been a Privateer 5 this proy’d alfo an eafy Prize, for he fired but one Broadfide, and clapping her on board, carried her without Refiftance, for the Captain and feveral Men were killed, befide fome wounded by his great Shot. _ This Ship proving for his Purpofe, he gave her the Name of the Flying Dragon, went on board with his Crew, and made a Prefent of his Sloop to .a Mate of an Englifh Prize, whom he had forced with him; from hence he ftood away for the Coaft of Brazil, and in his Cruize, took feveral Portuguefe Ships, which he plundered and let go. - After thefe, he fell in with the Wight Galley, Captain John Spelt, Commander, hired by the South- Sea Company, to go to the Coaft of Argela for Slavess Of Captain CONDENT, 14t Slaves, and thence to Buenos Ayres. This Ship he detained a confiderable Time, and the Captain be- ng his Townfntan, treated him very civilly; few Days after he took Spelt, he made Prize of a Portu- fuefe, Jaden with Bale Goods and Stores; he new Nige’d the Wright Galley, and put on board her . feveral Goods. Soon after he had difcharged the Portuguefe, he met with a Dutch Eaft-India Man of 26 Guns, Whofe Captain was kill’d the firft Broadfide, and took her with little Refiftance, for he had hoifted the Pyrates Colours’ on board Spe/t’s Ship. He now, with three Sail, fteer’d for the Ifland of *dinado, where he hove down and clean’d the Ying Dragon; having careen’d, he put 11. Dutch- ™n on board Captain Spelt, to make Amends for the Hands he had forced from him, and fent him Res making hima Prefent of the Goods he took tom the Portuguefe Ship. When he fail’d himfelf, he ordered the Dutch to ftay at Ferdinando 24 Hours after his Departure; threatning, if he did not . SOmply, to fink his Ship; if he fell a fecond Time to his Harfds, and to put all the Company to the Sword. He then ftood for the Coaft of Brazil, Where he met a Portuguefe Man of War of 70 Guns, Which he came up with ; the Portuguefe hal’d him, ®nd he anfwer’d, from London, bound for Buenos Ayres: The Portuguefe mann’d his Shrouds and y ard him, when Condent fired a Broadfide and a olley of {mall Arms, which began a {mart En- Rgement for the Space of 3 Glafles, but Condent findigg himfelf over-match’d, made the beft of hisw ay, and, being the better Sailor, got off. ‘6 Few Days after he took a Veffel of the fame Na- pee who gave an Account, that he had killed a- je 49 Men in the Guarda del Cofta, befide a Num- et wounded; he kept along the Coaft to the Southward, and took a French Ship of 18 Guns, ' - Jaden 142 Of Captain CONDENT. aden with Wine and Brandy, bound for the South- Sea, which he carried with him into the Rivet Of Plate. He fent fome of his Men athore to kil! fome wild Cattle, but they were taken by the .Crew of a Spanifh Man of War; on their Examina- tion before the Captain, they faid they were tw Guiney Ships, with Slaves belonging to the South- Sea Company, and on this Story were allowed t? return to their Boats: Here five of his forced ‘Men ran away with his Canoe, he plundered thé French Ship, cut her adrift, and fhe was ftranded. He proceeded along the Brazil Coaft, and hearing a Pyrate Ship was loft upon it, and the Pyrates imprifoned, he ufed all the Portuguefe, who fell into his Hands, who were many, very barbarouflys cutting off their Ears and Nofes; and as his Ma- fer was a Papift, when they took a Prieft, they made him fay Ma{s at the Main-maft, and would afterwards get on his Back and ride him about the ‘Decks, or elfé load and drive him like a Beaft He from this went to the Guiney Coaft, and took Captain Hill in the Indian Queen. mea Te : In Luengo Bay he faw two Ships at Anchor, one 4 Dutchman of 44 Guns, the other an Englifh Ship, called the Fame, Captain Bowen, Commander ; they both cut and ran afhore, the Fame was loft, but the Dutch Ship, the Pyrate, got off and took with him- When he was at Sea again he difcharged Captail Hill, and ftood away for the Eaf?-Indies. Near the Cape he took an Offend. Eaft-India Man, of which Mr, Nah, a noted Merchant in London, was Su- percargo. Soon after he took a Dutch Eaft-IndiA Man, difcharged the Oftender, and made for AMada- Safcar; at the Ifle of St. Azary, he met with fome of Captain Hal/ey’s Crew, whom he took on board ' with other Stragglers, and fhaped his Courfe fot the Eaft-Indies, and in the Way, at the Ifland of Sohanna, took, inCompany of two other rye NS WAr Wa PARADIS Of Captain CONDENT. he met at St Mary's, the Caffandra Eaft-India Man, ©oOmmanded by ‘Captain ames Macragh; he conti- hued his Courfe for the Ea/?-Iedies, where he made i very great Booty, and returning, touch’d at the ile Of Majcarenas, where he met with a Portuguefe Shipt of 70 Guns, with the Vice-Roy of Goa, on board. This Ship he made Prize. of, and hearing € had Money ‘on board, they would allow of no anfom, but carried her to the Coaft of Zanguebar, Where was a Dutch F ortification, which they took ‘nd plunder’d, razed the Fort, and carried’ off fe. Yeral Men who enter’d voluntarily. From hence they flood for St. Mary's, where they fhared their Booty, broke up their Company, and fettled among the Natives: Here a Szow came from Briffol, which they obliged tocarry a Petition to the Governor of - Usfearenas for a Pardon, tho’ they paid the Ma- fer very generoufly. The Governor returned Anfwer, he .would take them into Proteftion if they would deftroy their Ships, which they agreed ‘9, and accordingly funk the Flying Dragor,8cc. Cons dene and fome others went to .VWafcarenas, where condent married the Governor’s Sifter-in-Law, and fay’d tome Time; but as I have been credibly iiform’d, he is fince come to France, fettled at St, Maloes, and drives a confiderable Trade as a Merchant. 144 QI OVOMOBOA OOOO 4 DESCRIPTION of Mata- DOXA, taken partly from the Four- nal of Captam Beavis, and alfo from an original Manufcript of a Molotto, avho was taken by the Natives, and lived among? them fixteen Tears. : mander of the Ship, called the Albemarle, then in the Service of the Eaf-India Companys fail’d from England, bound for Surrat, in the Eaff Indies, but 43s, having been fome Months at Sea, having the Misfortune to meet with contra? ry Maforns, he loft his Paffage, fo that he was forced on the Coaft of Zanguebar, in the higher Ethiopia, or the, Continent of Africk, where he endeavoured to find out fome Place of Safety, that the Ship might ride fecure, and where he might meet with fome Neceffaries for refrething his Company, Winds, which he could not expe in lefs than three or four Months, A They came in with the Land, and caft Anchof on the ninth of November, the Year before-mer tioned; the Tenth it blew hard, but on thé Eleventh the Weather being pretty fair, the Cap- CU the Year 1700, Capt. William Beavis, Com- while he waited for the Change of Li as Re Firee down, at ‘ wha oue farther, they perceived an Inlet or Bay,* ve A Deftription of MAGADOXA. 61 ho Rin Could they difcover the leaft Track of any ton Creature ; however, they faw Deer, but. ho hot come -near enough to have a Shot at anau? they alfo found the Dung of Wolves, Hares, ah {ome other Animals, but {aw none; and hear x. Water-fide they found the Shells of a great: reer of Craw-Fith, but met with none alive ; wherefore, they guefled that they were left here Y fome Creatures, who fithed them up and ufually Upon them. Pan ty Finding this Place altogether inhofpitable, they ford Anchor and fail’d along the Shore, till * 17th of the fame Month,. when the Captain Me. 8 thro’ his Spying-glafs, faw three or four f “1 walking along the Sea-side, and fometimes ‘but could not ditcern any Houfe, » OF Smoak, but when they had {fail’d about’ Ste the Captain fancied there might be a Ri- SS whey Pe could alfo perceive feveral tall Trees, ta ‘ch were the fiift they had feen fince they i ing tain fent the Yawl on Shore, in two different Places, at confiderable Diftance from each 0? ther, they found the Land every’ where fandy, and ail over green with Shrubs, but faw no Houle’ eet ther nor ade ‘qt.upon the Coaft, which made the Captain “Wefure, that there muft be fome Inhabitants, Upon this, they came to an Anchor, and man- — the, cut the Boat, the Captain fent Mr. Baldwin org third Mate in-her, to go into the Bay, in whi, 00 difcover whether there was any River th 'ch difcharged itfelf into it; when they were — fiyw itt the Shore, they perceived about fifty or - People ftanding upon a Bank near the Water- ay? 22d one feparating himflf from the Reft, Pigeched nearer to them, and held upa white tic of Linnen at the End of a Stick, and waved of P, them, which they underftood to be a Flag the °"dthip, and which the Boat anfwered by ay ike Signal , then the Perfon on Shore beckon’d’ + _— an jte™ with his Hand, which they took to be. : “Vo, tition to come ‘on Shore, and accordingly 3 Mae L they 162 A Defcription of MAGADOXA. they ventured ; there were two.-of the Boat’s Men who {poke a little Portuguefe," who faluted this | Man in that Language; .as foon as they camé near him, his Gefture appeared very civil, but they could not underftand a Syllable of what he faid in Anfwer, but by his Signs, they fancied he invited them to come to their Huts, in order t? eat and drink. | ‘es . However, they did not think fit to flay lon- ger at this Time, but returned on Board, to a the Captain an Account of what had pafs’d, an to let him krow, that they could difcover »? River in the Bay; .they defcribed the People be pretty black, their Heads and Beards clofe ‘haved, wie ing upon their Heads Turbants made of a Kin of Linnen, and a Sort of Safh made of Dungereé Linnen about their Waftes, the Reft of the’ cone _ fulting with a Molotto, one of the Ship’s Com? — who underftood the Turkifh and Arabi? Languages, what he thought the Language of the ¢ Bodies being quite naked; whereupon, pany, People might be, he judg’d it to be a Kind ” corrupted Arabick, becaufe their Drefs was ae unlike. that of the Arabians of the Defert, a? that it was not unlikely, but that they might be | fome Way defcended from them, wherefore, raf Captain refolved to mann the Boat again, a”. to fend the Molotto afhore with them, to try * he could fo far underftand their Language, as ¢° learn from them, where there was frefh Water, might be with Safety till the breaking up of th? Eafterly Winds.. The Wind blew fo fceth all that Day, which w% the.1gth, that they could not. fend the Boat on aw cow! y a j ge tall. and well made, their Colour jee of any other Refrefhments to be had; and alfo. £0 a enquire for fome Port or Bay, where the she Shore, At Night they watched ,to. fee if chef 4 Smo. A Defiription of MAGADoxa. 163 Baa difcover any Appearance of Fire any where 3 fon Land, but they could difcern nothing like . Wherefore, it feemed frange to them, that in Country inhabited, there fhould be neither ak by Day, nor Fire by Night, which made . wpe fuppofe, the Huts of the Natives were far — P the Country. Sho Owever, the next Day the Boat was fent on otto Interpreter, and Mr. Courfer Nhe fare Mate ; and for Fear of any Surprize, Bo, tain ordered them to carry Arms in the the Te with the Mol °at. When Yeral Ade, bu . their H | Shey | the Ves it Po Yery thy In ; t The eli is fupp gence. they approach’d near the Shore, fe- of the Natives made towards the Water- t feeing the Boat’s Men take their Arms in ands at their Landing, they fled affrighted the Country, ‘nor would they ‘ever come near . 3 Miva after 5 -the Men went a little Way up the Yeted and met with fome Huts, which were co- ty..- With the Shells of Turtles, which Crea- ofed the Natives catch: in their ' thal Seafon for Food, and then making a Co- fy, © Of their Shells for their Houfes; they alfo feveral Cows, at fome Diftauce, which ate th, {wift at running, and not larger than our — ton, > they faw fome other Animals, but took > and fo returned on Board without gaining | f | of © Miftake here was, that they did not lye With their Boat, and make a Signal as they Ves tg Mdues a heed 10n. 9 La tat firft, which would have difpofed the Na- + 0 have ftaid for them, as they did before, Range ng , afhore abruptly with Arms in. their Come 8, frighten’d the Natives, as if they had Pedy £0 kill them ; wherefore, there was no Ex- inde f making any Difeovery here, which it the Captain to weigh Anchor, and fteer tle farther Weftward, ; The Oe Ne! ews FANVAN e 164 .A Defcription of MacsAvoxa. The next Morning, which was the twenty. [ coad, they came to an Anchor, and fent ther Boat on Shore again, with Mr. Baldwin the thil ‘Mate, and the-Gunner there being fome hig, Bills rot far from the Place where they lande¢» the Mate and Gunner refolved to walk to thé Top of one of the higheft of thofe Hills,.in 0% der to take a View of the Country beneath. About -feur in the Afternoon they returned agaia to thé Ship, bringing Word, that there was a ‘Valley on the other Side, about five Miles ? Length, and near as far in Breadth, but that they could fee no Houfes or orher Signs of Inbaby ;tants, but that the Valley feemed to abound wie Deer, and feveral other Creatures; they brough on Board three Antilopes, and two large Guivey Hens, which they fhor, and faw. great. Numbe! of both thefe Creatures about the Buthes on a Sides of thofe Hills; the Antilopes were {mal Z but extreamly beautiful, their Bodies no big8¢ _ .than that of a Hare, but their Legs much longe” .their Colour was a Mixture of black and whit _very {mooth, and very bright, with Horns abo¥ three I ches long. } # They weigh’d and crept along afhore to th Wetlward, and next Day, which was the Tweed third, the Captain with his Spying-glafs faw *@ -ven.or eight Men near the Shore; wherefore, b fent the Boat to endeavour to fpeak with the™ _As foon as they faw the Boat approach chem they went off; the Men however went on Shof -and at fome Diftance faw two Camels and t” Affes Joaden, pafs along with Men attending then they did what they could to fpeak with thé #5 too, but when they perceived the Boat’s Met rs mnake tow’rds them, they. drove fo faft there “BO coming near thein.: ~ Sey er pleafane Gy Verve a ae et oA RG _ A Defeription of MAGADOX AL. 165 - The next Morning’‘the Weather being. cleirer © Bates Ordinary, the Captain looking thro” his Gla 8 he led he faw feveral tall Spires to the Weftward 5 ) foyp oeh'd Anchor, aiidftood away for them; by: lene, 2 the: Afternoon, he plainly. pérce'ved 2. ove Lown, and by fix came toan Auchor right » Boat againft it; however,vhe did. not: fend. the: Oder Shore that: Night, but-next Morning he » Cae Mr. Baldwin the third Mate,:Mr. Sale the fhoke With: the Molotto ‘before-nentioned, who” t ey. the Turkifh and. Arabian Languages, to take % yok with four Hands, and to carry with them tae Flag, that they might appear-to ‘come in) at qily and peaceable'Manner, chirging them ) Y high” fame Time to fay or do. nothing which’ to foe, sPPeat harth or offenfive: The Boat: was. Soo net in with othe Shore, bat the Natives ’ Ve. d as it were to meet them, and-appeared + Ai: ©ourteous: The: Moletto.fpoke to them in - they ‘an Tongue, giving them to underftand, that > ty, Were driven upon their Coafts by the Misfor=~ War of having Joft their Voyage, that they. were in > hee Of Water, and bege’d they would.fhew them © Woyig ey might be fupplied, and that) if they fig, think fit to furnith them with freth Provi- Or. they would pay them in Money,or any Goods © Tg UWiofities of Europes 455 . Rin ippened the Language they {poke was a Court Arabick, fo. that the Molotto could dif-" im ..vith them perfettly well; they anfwered ang? seat the King: was: abfent. from .the City,» but that they could do nothing. till his Return, they pat he would be-there as that; Night, for a pad feut him Word of the coming of a Ship, : they 0 aS it appeared’ in Sight. That however, | Qeqen Sat aflure themfelves, that all they re-- thers thould be granted, and thewed them where. © Were. feveral fine Springs of Water: Thele, “SiR : L 3 Spiings 166 A Defcription of MAGADOXA. Springs being a pretty Way ftom the Water-fide, and the Ground near them ‘craggy and uneven > the Molotto told them it would be difficult t? ; row! their Casks fo long a Way, and over fuch bad Ground, and ask’d them if there were not any Spring nearer the Sea. They anfwered them no, but that the King would give them Oxen t draw their Casks to the Boat; and. fo they 1é turned on. Board with a Prefent from the King $ Son of a Sarne of mafh’d Dates, a matted Jar’ Sweet-Meats, and four, Sheep. Betimes the next Morning, being the 26th, thé Captain fent the Yawl on Shore again with thé fame Officers, to know if the King..was comes and to beg Leave to bring on Board fome fret Water, ordering them to make a Signal for: thé Long-Boat to be fet on Shore, in» Cafe they on ad tained the Permiffion to water; the Yawl 1 not been long gone before the appointed Sign# was made, and the Long-Boat was accordinglY fent immediately ; after which, the Captain pet ceived the Yaw! was returning back agaia to thé Ship: She came with four Hands im her to 24 vife the Captain, that the Long-Boat: would, 1° mediately return with a Cow as a Prefent him, and to put him in Mind, that it would b& proper to fend fomething back for a Prefent * the Shubander, (the Name by ‘which they cal} thé King’s Son) with whom they, viz. the third Maté Mr. Baldwin, the Gunner, and the Molotto Inte!” preter, who ferved in the Ship as a Quartier, were gone to dite, FP Midi oh iiats eds ge ‘’ The Captain was — at their Indifcretio”’s. and the more’ becaufe ‘he had ordered them, * be upon their Guard for Fear of Treachery, he ving furnifhed them with Arms for that Pur po fi and charged them ‘not to ftir far from their Boa } however, there was no Remedy now, fo that ”, Hei eight ee ee fee d eCOver 9 ‘to x: an ages the Land, Uw 6 VES y gS 2 SALI NOES A Defiription of MAGapoxa. 167 ¢ Yaw! back again with a Prefent of a fmalf Prin 8-glafs (a great Curiofity there) for the the 8 ordering one Man to carry it, and to tell Ig Gunner, and Molotto to come off as it as they could, the reft to lye a little off Beh the Yawl, their Arms ready, but out of p ite Captain obferving the Yaw! with his Glaf, mse the Men contrary to his Orders were EG. on Shore, and looking again a little after, Ba a Boat without a Maft, or fo much as one Shot in_her, drag’d towards the Town quite on One <2, 20d in a little Time after the was hawl’d. ott of Sight. Dari Rathnels of his Men great CHEc Uneatinefs, he apprehended fome. fatal fs a alts from it, (and indeed he had Reafon) Chet knew the Natives of fome Part of the ie Were Cannibals; therefore, for Fear of ven- they eNO? much at once, he refolved not to tru ing. @'S-Boat on Shore, till he had fome Tide- “SS from the Yawl. fa 2 7 a that Day he pafs’d with the utmoft Unea- 8, keeping a Man continually on the Watch, log}? : ee towards. the Shore with a Spying-glafs, fent th Lookin gave him a Many if any. Thing could be difcovered of his thy On the Shore, but all to no Purpofe; for no- Bo Could be difcerned either of them or the a the whole Day. That Night was {pent in i id doubtful Reflections, and Tears for the Con- nin n of thofe who were on Shore. Next Mor- toy? the Captain refolved to fend the Long-Boat a. with Mr. Nyz his firft Mate, th, Rene other of his Officers in her, ordering dig.,..° thew a white Flag, as foon as they fhould y People to come~near them; but not Sig rentute to go afhore, but to talk and make | 9" to the Natives out of the Boat, and to try L 4 #0 Waw Cee To A" EUS VES SN MASA 168 A Defcription of MAGADOoXA. to difcover the Reafon of our Mens being detained 4 and in Cafe they found they kept them Prifo- ners, or intended them for Slaves, to try by ~ Means of the Molotto Interpreter to, treat with them for their Ranfom. Mr. Nye obey’d his Orders punttually, and whe? he came near the Land he lay, by, with a whité Flag di(play’d at the End of a Maft, at which Time he obferved a great Body of People com ing from the Town towards the Sea-Side; thé “Captain could alfo difcern them. from the ShiP with his Spying-glafs, and judg’d them to be be- twixt four and five Thoufand, but’ inftead of coming to parley, they marched in a Body bé; hind a Bank, which ftood oppofite the Boat, where they lay ina Kind of Ambuicade, without retur?’ ing any Signa!, or fhewing any Inclination to {pea with the Boat. es “This look’d plainly, as if they intended to fulr tize the Men, in'Cafe they fhould venture tana: wherefore Mr. Nya refolved to return OF Board, and plying along Shore, in order to find the Paflage thro’ the Ridge oF Rocks of Corals “which runs along afhore, the Natives let fly Fe Shower of Arrows at the Boat, which howeveF did no Harm, becaufe they fell fhort ; upon which Mr. Nyx commanded his Men to fire their Arms towards the Banks, in order to frighten them, fot being fo intrench’d, he knew he could do them no Harm; after which he returned on Board. 7 "The Captain now began to defpair of ever feei"é his Men more; the beft he could think which could befal them, was, to be made Slaves, fo! fill he did not apprehend that they had mee with fo melancholy and cruel a Fate, as the! - Confidence in the Natives had really brought uP onthem; he therefore refolved to make one A” tempt more, in order to learn fome News of whe \ Wis | : ar had Ang k 4 Defcription of MAGADOxXA. 169 aad befallen them: Jn order to which, he thought a Stratagem, by; which he fhould run no Ha- hi d of lofing any more of his Men, and by which ‘ feemed probable he muft hear ot them if they- ans alive. He wric a Letter, which Letter he puled to be fix’d to the Top of a long Pole, which the wered to be carried on Shore in the Silence of G Night ; the Men were to fix the Pole in’the theunds and to make it the more con{picuous, fre was a:Flag alfo faitened to the Pole. He did not doubt, but that if any of his Men tc the Liberty .of walking about, they would thes for the Letter which they muft fee, and if able had not that Liberty, the Natives not being to read it themfelyes, would carry it to - them 4 Ih this Letter he adviled Mr. Baldwin, and Mr. ley the third Mate and Purfer, to. treat about . et Own Ranfom themf{elves, and that of the five th n with them (including the Molotto) and fince ; €re was no other Way of procuring their Liber- we he would comply with the Terms, let them What they would , he direfted them to fix their waver Upon the fame Pole, and leaft they fhould ren Pen and Ink, he inclofed a Pencil, aud alfo bones of Paper. And in Hopes an Anfwer fhould at left, he commanded the Pole to be fix’d juft eg Waters Edge, where there was no Bank near, b. A€ it might be taken off without the Danger ot 1 Ambufcade. fo is was the beft Expedient he could think of, ah relieving his unhappy Countrymen, who now, sid Were paft all Relief. Accordingly the Boat Me fent ‘with the faid Letter, and two of the ace Went on Shore and fixed it, and having re- toed into the Boat, the Boat put off, and came ea Anchor at fome Diftance from the Shore, », der to obferve what fhould ‘become of the Se nr Letter ; WAR VM UOT BAYER S é EVEVUSVELV ES SAAS ARAN 8 Aa. RY eS a — 170 6A Defcription of MAGADOXA. Letter; they waited till Noon to no Purpofe, the? taking up their Anchor, in order to come 0” Board for fome Refrefhment, they were but 2 little while under Sail, when they faw a Man come and carry off the Pole; a little while afte! which, as they ply’d along the Shore, and weré oppofite to the Bank before defcribed, they weré faluted with a Volley of Mufquet-Shoi, ‘one Ball falling into’the Boat, and fevera!l others come very near it; ‘wherefore, they made all the Sail they could to give the Captain an Account of what had pafs’d. The Fire Arms they made ufe of were thefe they found in the Boat, where they alfo met with fix Cartouch Boxes full of Charges, and their mak- ing ufe of them in this Manner, convinced the Captain that they had no Mind to come to any Parley with them, or to liften to any Terms about the Releafe of their unhappy Ship Mates; how- ever they were continually upon the Watch, look- ing out with wifhing Eyes, in Expectation of fee ing the appointed Signal made for the Anfwer of the Letter; long they expected to no Purpofes which made the Captain think fomething very fatal had happened to them, and that he fhould never fee them more; but in the midft of his De- f{pair, a Thought came into his Head, which ade minittred to hima little Comfort, he fancied that perhaps they might be carried up the Country» to the Place where the King at that Time w45 gone, and that the Natives might fend the Let+ ter after them, which might be the Reafon theré was no Anfwer yet left, Upon this little Glim- >mering of Hope, he refolved to wait fome Day$ longer, for he was willing to lay Hold of any Hope, rather than bear the Thoughts of goin away without them. . Thus VE DY. ¥ as A Defeription of MAGADOXA. 171 . Thus Day after Day they waited in Expeéta-. tion. of fome Anfwer, fending the Boat to lye off fet the Shore, to be ready in Cafe any Signal Ould be made-——One Day they perceived a Steat Number of People to come out ot the Town, , ? ia make towards the Shore, which gave them an. .“ipettation that the Delivery.of their Friends Was at Hand; they watched their Motions, with “tneft Eyes, hoping every Minute to fee.a Flag of tuce, -inftead of which, they obferved .them. to match direétly behind the Bank, where they feem’d 0 place themfelves in a Kind of Ambufecade. Now there feem’d to be an Bnd of all. their, Reve? the Boat return’d on Board, and made. a. Port to the Captain of what they faw, who, “alling a Confultation. of all his Officers to hear if, “NY Thing could be offered for the Relief of their: ;°Mpanions; it was propofed by ane to fend the Boat on Shore, to burn fome Junks which were) hawea up about a Mufquet-Shot from the Water-; fide, but the Captain confidered, that tho? .this, wight gratifie their Revenge, it would bring no, Relief to their poor captive Friends; On the con-, "ary, the Natives might be provoked to, deftroy- them’ for it, if they had not done it: already, be- fides as thefe‘Junks lay not far from the Bank, their Men might be expofed to the Arrows, of the Natives (who now lay in continual, Ambuf-, Side) and fo they might run the Hazard of lo- ing ‘more Men without the leaft Advantage to themfelves or unha Companions. ; ‘ Wherefore, this Project was laid afide, and the. . Winds often blowing hard, and the Captain not. : ing it fafe to lye anv longer im that opene Road, he weighed Anchor on the fourth of De-. ieaae) fteering -along athore, in Search of fome "yor Inlet, where they might ride fhelter'd that a from the Wind and Weather; and till with a View. . Ure We. r ET PE aK Pon, BOEVEVUEVEVNS Nove § pee: VRAD Aa AO PU A) 172° A Defeription of MAGADOXA. that if either their Companions might have an Opportunity of making their Efcape, or the Na- tives fho.Jd relent and think of Jetting them g0 for a Ranfom, they might be near enough to re- - ceive them. After about three. or four Hours gentle Sail he dropp’d an Archor, the Town of | Magadoxa then bearing NE bE of them, they perceived it was all along a flat {mooth Shore, without ‘any Bay or other Shelter, for Ships to. ride; wherefore, the rext Day, which was the fifth of December, they ftood off to Seay and then came to a Confultatior, what Meafures to take in theif prefent Condition; and having’ confidered that they had met with no Place where they could ride with any Safety, and if they thould meet with a ‘convenient Bay much’ farther down the Coaft, it would be of no Service to their unhappy Companions, who would never hear of them ; and befides they could not venture’ to traffick with the Natives for Refrefhments,’ for Fear of Sur- prize and Treachery ; and their Mei beginning to grow weak and diftempered for want of frefh Pro- vifions, they refolved to make for the IMland © Joanna, being forced to leave their Companions tO Providence, in great Trouble and Anxiety for their ushappy Fate. é We fhall leave them to purfue their Voyage, which was happy” enough, bating this Accident, and relate what had pafsd on Shore, as we had it from a Munufcript, written by the Molotto In- terpreter, who was the only Perfon who efcaped,’ and return’d to England, after he had lived fix- teen Years amongft the Barbarians. — © It has been already taken geet that Mr. Bald> win the third Mate, and Mr. Saie'the Purfer (un- happily for them) not obferving the Cautions the’ Captain gave them to be upon their Guard, were fo indifcreet, to be tempted to accept of an In«- ae vitation \ A Defeription of MAGADOXAs 173 “itation to dine with the King’s Son; fo that; ha- “ing fene the Yawl on Board again, fora Prefent “Shas been related, they with the Molotto Inter- Preter went towards the Town, accompanied by “‘veral of the Natives, who made them the Invi- ‘ation in the Name of the King’s Son. They were 50, oner arrived at the firft Gate of the City, at they were furrounded by a great Multitude ohr eople, and violently dragg’d into a little Door Under ‘the Gateway, and fhut up in a dark Hole. hen they -had remained here about the Space of two Hours, they heard a very great Noife enous 5 foon after which, the Doors leading to den Dungeon were all opened,* and they were f. 88d out again; when they. were out, they Wes that what occafioned that great Noife, was . © Return of their Men, whom they had fent | Board for a Prefenc for the King’s Son, who ‘Wete feized in the fame Manner they had been, a being encompaffed by fuch a Number. of ‘0ple, they loft them ina Minute; they were alo feparated from one another, and che Molotto Whiting to know of them the Meaning of all this, and in what they had offended them, they..only . ‘Nfvered. him, that they muft go before the de- Cabo, (the Name by which they call the King, ies had not beei out of Town as they gave out ee accordingly he was conducted with a fuf- iy Guard, expecting there to meet his Compa- _ 8 again. 48 fev hen he arrived at the King’s Houfe (which wl be hereafter defzribed) he was led thro’ fe- mi Rooms to that where the King was prefent, Fy om he found fitting upon the Ground, the. “4p. 20r being matted; he was drefSd in a long Mad of Drawers of blewith purple Silk, which *ach’d down to his Toes, having neither Shoes A i Stockings on, @ large Mantle of the fame Silk, a and 174 A Defcription of MAGADOXA. fy and ‘a white Turbant on his Head + there were eight others who fat about him, whofe Drefs w2 the fame with his, as to Form. aad Fafhion, but their Drawers and Mantles were made of a blew and white ftrip’d Dungeree Stuff, inftead of silk 5 thefe’were his Councellors and. Favourites. The King fpoke to him in a Kind of Arabick, aski0B ‘of what Country he was? he anfwered of Canton 9 China. Then he ask’d him, how he came to affo- ciate himfelf with thofe horrid white Men? Th? poor Molotto began to tremble at this Queftio?s ‘but excus’d himfelf by {peaking in their Favou" highly extolling them for their Civility of ‘Beha- viour, as well as Generofity,-and praifing them es all Things to the King, telling him, he was fure the Captain would ranfom them, if it was Pleafure to confent to it; to which he returned no Anfwer, but ask’d what the Ship had in be the Molotto gave him an‘Account of her Ladin$ ? then he defired to know whether the reft of d ‘Men would come on Shore, he anfwered, he coul not tell, but in Cafe they were fuffered to retur? again on Board, he was fure they would comé 5 Shore, and that the Captain himflf defigned 2 come ‘and fee the King, as foon as they should ¥¢ turn; but the King made no Offer of fufferin’ ‘that, but commanded him to be carried back Prifon. a The Prifon which they call Haulaub, is a quate Stone-Building, about twenty Foot high, and i ‘at Top,fronting one of their broadeft Streets ; the ‘are no Windows or Iron Bars, as we fee in yr Prifons, but there are feveral little Holes aber eight or nine Inches fquare, quite thro’ the W4 ? thro’ which, the Place within receives both L' ‘and Air. Here the poor Molotto was put, very ‘anxious about the Fate ‘of his poor Compan? ‘whom he had not feen fince their being fepat# ne neg e his - _ the Q . "thot A Ben the 4 Defeription of MAGADOX A. 175 at fog firft coming out of the Dungeon; where- Holes bee an old Man looking thro’ one of the _ Was be Clore defcribed; he enquired of him what tholy acme of them, who gave him this melan- the poo cunts that thofe who came laft out of Board , which were the four Sailors fent on Were kill Ship for the Prefent for the King’s Son, i ‘s in the Streets by the Multitude, and Pieces ‘king fome Refiftance, they were torn to Soul? very Man thinking himfelf happy that bit eds a Piece of their Fleth, ihewing a Who ha, geo two Ounces, which he begg’d of one Sat th §0t a great Piece, which many of them taugh, tt they were all from their Childhood tha th to have an Averfion to white Men, and the yan Were the firft that had been feen in the jig nory. of Man, that as to the tall Man and With hi Man which had been in the Dungeon Mee (which were Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Sale, tder «2nd Purfer) they were by the King’s 8ers Se tied to the Boderzau (a Place where Ty- Plea fir other fierce Beafts are kept for the King’s Te) and delivered up to be torn to Pieces at his nimals, "of by Was in Effect, the true Account of the the, Ody Maffacre that was committed upon bg ime baPpy Men ; the Story of which, it may the aoe, muft throw the, poor Molotto into hinge of Confternation and Fear, as imagining {omens fo be near fuffering fome cruel Death ; bare pies he flattered himfelf that they would the Qu becaufe of his being a Molotto, but on I Side, when he refletted on his having mn hi white Men a good Charagter, he look’d a imfelf to be a dead Man, thinking that Bas fafficient to deftroy him. asa abe 35 #7 _ Bee CACY RRL RAL ATA x VAN EAN OE VAI RU a ee — 176 =A Defeription of Ma GADOXA. Betwixt thefe Doubts and Fears he pafs’d —_ ee the oe 4 Defeription of MAGADOXA. 177 alee to truft him. And the Truth on’t iSy the figied to. tell them what had pafs’d, and if Night, in a Place all covered with Naftine!s where there was not the leaft Conveniercy fe eafing Nature, and where, had his Mind been * reft, ic would have been hard for him to hav€ flept. In the Morning a Man look’d thro’ o¥@ f attives did not hold him faft, to throw him- nor wt the Sea, and venture to fwim to them, Not the; r but t doubtin Oubting, but thofe in the Boat might with “ire Arms, fecure him from being purfued, of the Holes, and with great Joy in his Count nance, told him, there were more white Men 0 ing on Shore; the Fellow did not relate it as g°0 News to him, but told it for the Pleafure theY more of them. Ibé Molotto with’d within himfelf, that he could havé- given Notice of what had pafs’d, and fome AG fhould have in deftroying d hey hin®? h Vhich Of th em “1 related, 8ave no Opportunity of making the At- eh, he King then call’d for one of the Fire-Arms, Fa ad been taken in the Boat, and commanded to fhew them how they were to be ufed, he was forced to do; and they made ule by firing at the Boat as has He was then carried back to Pri- foon after, vice to beware of themfelves, but it was fa for him to keep his Withes to himfelf; therefor® he faid nothing. Some Hours after he was fent go again before the King; now he thought ‘Execution was at Hand, but when he was brou to his ght Lye tnd talking with the Jaylor (whom in their these they. call Kasboo) he ask’d him what he Theat the King intended to do with him? tend Jiylor anf{wered, he was fure he did not in- into the King’s Prefence, they put a Letter int? his Hand, commanding him to tell what it meaty for that thofe who had come on Shore had ftv d it upon'a Pole, and went off before they cou! f be {poke to.’ He faw at one Caft of an Bye, th@ it was from the Captain, who talk’d of Ranfom and. a fudden Thought came into his Head, tn if he had explained it to the King, they wou make him fome Way inftrumental, in decoying ‘more of the Men on Shore, in order to murde them ; and knowing his Companions to be paft a Ranfom, he faid he did not know the Ways ty the white Men, and could not underftand wh that meant. The King then ask’d him if he coU” perfuade the white Men, who were at that T/™ lying at an Anchor, in their Boat fome Difiar from the Land, to come on Shore, he anfwered >” would endeavour to do it, if it was his Pleafut?? upon which the King whifper’d with fome othet g who were near him, but faid no more of it, as be? unwilling been, Boa} eca O have him kill?’d, as: the white Men had ufe he kad ordered: him to give him tits >this News a little revived his drooping Spi- th pocordingly he -brought him fome Plantanes haq ,Cbanas, which was the firft Nourifhment he t Wethed Water, ‘Sia leyoe ‘Oeethe 4 SY] fince he came on Shore; and having himfelf ‘therewith, and with an Alabo that/is, a Vefel not unlike a Pitcher, for fomething to clean the Place, the brought him a Parcel of green Sticks tied th » Which they call a Tofee, and ferves for SUK Go ae dec? eecees hoe, Of 2 Broom ; with this and a Thing like Te 8 he made: a Shift to {weeten the Place old ya vel 3 when it was done, he obferved an Wit : Ks Ke : wt hi Ite Wer, . looking thro? one of the Holes at him; om ke fell into Difcourfe, and enquired Whether the Ship was gone, the old Man M no, but that there was another Boat with | Men lying off the Land, and that’ there Sf oa. Breat Numbers of People from the Town M Was lying ~ SOD IO DATE BP WO ae OO al OO UT EO 178 A’ Defeription of MAGADOXA. lying in Wait for their coming on Shore. He bege’d this old Man to get him a few Palmat? Leaves to lay on the Floor under him, which the old Man did, fo that that Night he refte very comfortably to what he had done before- The next Morning he was again fent for befor® the King, who ask’d him, if he could kill a Com with one of thofe Mufquets? he anfwered he could, and glad he was to be fo employed, thinking by thefe Means he might pleafe the King, at lea gain his Favour fo far, as to induce him to {pare ‘his Life. He was led out to the River-fide, thé King himfelf being in Company, and one of te Mufquets was put into his Hand, he took th Ball and beat it into a great Length, and thet divided it into fall Bits about the Size of Swa? Shot, for he would not venture to fhoet with @ fingle Ball, not knowing but his Life might ae pend upon the Succef’ of his Shoot, by thefe Meany he kil?’d ore the firft Shot. The King feem? very well pleated, and made him charge the Pie¢” again in the fame Manner, and taking it into a own Hands difcharged it at another Comay whic he alfo killd. i A Coway is a fine beautiful Bird larger chan Swan, and not much unlike it in Shape, the Bod is as white as Milk, but the Tuft it wears on # Head, as alfo its Tail, are adorned with Variety : Colours, the Bill is a little crooked, and uneve?? its Legs of a fine Yellow, but its Form is betft ex preffed. by the Figure: They are in great PlentY always living near the Water, hatching fourter or fifteen young Onessat a Time, and fet fo 40 Times a Year; they are excellent to eat, not they tafte at all fithy. « ae After this, he was ordered back to his prifo é as he went along ‘heask’d the Jaylor (with wh? te o he was now grown more familiar) what he howdy ou cal] ua, 600 Vayv OF SRO a A Defeription of MAGADOXA. 179. rhea: intended to do with him, The Kasboo or F told him, he believed’ he intended to keep there till the Ship (which they call a Scha- ha aed the white Men were gone, and that then ftps order him to be releas’d from his Cou. hytor 2 and employ him in fome Service. The Much i eem'd to talk to him, and ule him in a ittived inder Manner than before; and when he their |. at the Prifon, he brought him a Patue (in Which eesaage a Dith) of boiled Rice with Oyl, him .’S.!00k’d upon to be very good Food; he left him m — fig; two large Alaboes or Pitchers of Water, fu lene é Which to drink and to clean his Kennel, after hie he took a comfortable Nights Reft, 8 ip wie oor Fellow now began to with that the his Re se gone, fince he had no Profpett of making Cure hie? and that their Departure would pro- the o) im greater Liberty, Next Morning feeing Maty a who had furnifh’d him with the Pal- im 17°2VeS;, looking thro” one of the Holes at ti € enquired of him, whether the Ship was Rin N Sight ? He told him it was, that there were Bane ye Numbers of People lying behind the Uke? AVIng with them thofe Things which were Steat Nh the Boats, defcribing the Mufquets, and thould umbers of Arrows, ready to fhoot if they thaips ge eer Land, or come near enough with Yhat thot)? he begg’d of him to let him know bing Baas happen, and particularly to inform Whote ne the Ship thould go off: The old Maa ahd pe ame was Morafab, feem’d obliging and kind, — Tn bed him to do fo, and that he would re- u Bahan.) Night: (which in their Language they, binging o after. the Kasboo or Jaylor came. in, hig Bien Plantanes and Bonana’s to him for . little bee and ‘opened a Door which went into > Pack Yard, “where there was a Spring of Mea fine SUE ELLER VEL TLE LEVELYVELEY 180 A Defcription of MAGADOXA. fine freth Water, bidding him draw what Wate® . he pleafed in his Alaboes, and clean his Prifon, !e4- viig the Place open to him for that Purpafe, there beiig no Way for him to get out; towards Bven® ing he came to him again, bringing h'm fom boyl’d Rice and Oyl, and then he thut up thé “Door before defcribed, and, leaving. him Watet enough, left him for that Night. doug Morafab appeared at one of the Holes accofl= ing to his Promile, acquainting him, that the SIP remained ftill in the fame Station, and that thé Boat had not been fen near the Land that. Day? Next Morning Aforafab came again, and with grent Joy told him, the Ship was then going off, Bet ing under Sail ; @ little after the Kasboo or Jayle came in as ufual, bringing fome boyl’d Rice, 3” gave him the fame Account of the Ship, | ~ Tho’ he defpaired now of ever getting off, ¥€ he expeéted to be enlarged from his Prilon, ay, enjoy Liberty, the fweeteft Thing to Man. in hf Evening Morazab came again to let him knows that the Ship was almoft out of Sight, and ee the King had {ent a Party of Men to the Eaft, #9 4 another to the Weft, to watch the Coaft, and Hy 4 in Wait for the white Men, in Cafe they. {ho¥. Land any where elfe for Water or to get. Pee fions. The next Day he came again and he ) reat Way off to the Weftward, but that the Men ge not come on Shore; and the Day followisg bs him Notice, that Word had been brought t King that the Ship had been feen again a wvifited him again, with an Account, that. : was brought to the King that the Ship was $°" ‘off again, and fail’d out of Sight. ite Upon this, he expeéted. to -be immediately: Jeas’d from his Confinement, yet he was kept.© to his Prifon ten Days longer; the Reafon, 45 \'pe 499 was, leaft the Ship might ‘afterwards found, - G4. 5 i : hové - alls y. e7 ol? they hi A Defeription’ of MAGADOxA: 181 fotering fomewhere upon the Coaft, and having ch Liberty he might ‘find an Opportunity of ef- ng to her; but when they feem’d pretty well feat that the Ship was quite gone off, the King hy ot him, and ask’d him, if he fhould give him Ne liberty, whether he would attempt to efcape ?. te, pomifed he would not, and indeed any At- wae now would have been in Vain, for to efcape uld have been a Thing impoffible ; upon which, ai eine appointed him to attend upon his Perfon, Org to live with his other Servants, giving him Gigs sft the fame Time not to go out of the Ya tete was nothing at all uncomfortable in the’ er, he led here, ‘for the Service was eafy, having iy Y little to do’; his chief BufinelS was carry- We Up the Pataes or Dithes for the King’s Dinner, Si €at upon the Ground, the Floor being fome- €s covered with’a Mat inftead of a Cloth, and ge, mes bare without any Thing ; the Diet was. ty boiled Rice, ‘with broiled Meat, fome- of.’ Venifon, fometimes wild Goat ;’as allo Fowl ntl Sorts, which are fmaller than thole of Ex- Vera) but Of an excéllent Tafte; they have alfo fe- to, How! not known tous; their Beef and Mut- gh 28 both excellent, but {mall; they alfo had ite “LY. Of Fith which they drefS, either by boil- hace broiling, as for Sawce, the King himfelf Of thon’? except K4jan, Pepper, for they eat moft i ir Things very hot, and boiled Rice is what : ves? th) be j Thy hem inftead ‘of Bread. Would gee lived in Plenty, eating as much as he Dinn Of What was left, when the King had done Drink? fo that few’ People "as. co Eating id Dice Gee tafted fo great a Variety as he did; the Pally of the common Sort of People, confifts gene-_ le of Plantanes, ‘Benana’s, boiled Rice (which, “2 Call Pafida) aid ‘Oil, and a Dith they call M 3 Kaja Te hi aT KA OL AT SU ee BN oy Be ” : ¢ S BVP WEVA LY awry ey 182 A Defeription of MAGADOX A. Kaja, which is Plantanes and Rice boiled together3: fometimes indeed they have Venifon and wild ~Goat, which they kill themfelves, but whatever it is, they eat it out of the Crock it is boiled in, for none but thofe of great Condition have the Ule of Pataes or Difhes; if it be broiled, whether it be Fith or Fleth, they eat it off the Coals, and to avoid burning their Fingers, they take a Bit of green Stick which they break half through, and fo bending it together, it ferves the Ufe of 4 Pair of Tongues as well as a Fork, in turning the Meat upon the Coals as well as taking it off when jt 1s ready. As for Knives and Forks the King) himfelf is not acquainted with the Ufe of them 5 fo that he pulls. his Meat to Pieces with his Fin- gers, which is generally fo well done that it re- quires no. great Labour. : ~ It was about two Months before he ventured to flir abroad beyond the Palace; but one Day one of the Servants who had Bufinefs about the City, ask’d him to go along with him, and in Difcourle told him, the King would not be difpleas’d, if he fhould go out often upon this Encouragement he ufed to walk about the City almoft every. Day, chufing the Time when, the King wert to fleep, which was conftantly his Practice every Afternoon. He took this Liberty three or four Months :to- gether, fometimes being abfent feveral Hours with- out receiving the lezft Reprimand;’ he made am - Acquaintance with feveral ‘in the City, and had Leifure to fatisfie his Curiofity, in obferving every Thing that appeared new and ftrange, to one who had lived fo long amongft ‘the Europeans. ., The City of Magadoxa ies (as. has been ob- ferv’d) .in the Latitude of one Degree and fifty: one Minutes: It is built betwixt two Hills or ra- ther on the Sides of two Hills, the greateft. Part of it Aanding on the Declivity : of that Hill ae A Defcription of MAGaDoxA, 183 the Sea, fo that there is {carce any of it to be feen by any Ship in the Road, or that paffes by, Which indeed are but few; for fcarce any ever touch there, except driven by ’strefs of Weather; as was the Cafe of the Albemarle. They have no Veffels of their own, except a few employ’d in Fithing, which they call Juncks, and not above ten or twelve of thofe; and tho’ fome of them are large enough to carry thirteen or fourteen Ton, they never venture far from the Land. The City contains betwixt three and four thou- fand Houles, fome built of rough Stone, others of arble, of which they have many Quaries, ex- treamly fine, and of various Colours, but they Want the Art of polifhing it ; but the moft efteem- ed and moft expenfive Houfes, are thofe of rough Stone covered over with a Kind of Plaifter, which 418 peculiar to, this Country , after it is laid on, itis not above three Days in drying, and grows 4s hard and durable as the Stone itfelf; but the Steateft Curiofity of it is, that they can make it of what Colour they pleafe; and as the Houfes of all. Perfons of Condition are covered with it, lt has, .a mighty pretty Effect to the Eye, for fome have their Houles white, others red, fome Yellow, and fome blue, that of the King was Breen, while the Infide is floor’d with the fame Plaifter, the Rooms all differing in Colour from €ach other, which Variety makes the City appear very beautiful, tho’ the Streets are very narrow and very nafty. - Notwithftanding the Houfes look fo bright Without. ‘Side, their: Furniture within confifts of Yery little more than Cobwebs, for they have Neither Tables, Chairs, nor Glaffes, they have in- deed, Matts which ferve ‘them inftead of Table. — Cloths by Day, and Beds by Night, upon which 3 M 4 ' they ’ j 184 A Defcription of MAGADOXA. they lie without either Pillow or Bolfter, ‘with 4 Covering of Mokaz or thick Dungereeover them, which is fo call’d from/a Tree of that Name, of the Bark of wh‘'ch it is made, which being beaten, is drawn into long Threads, and wove or rather work’d with fine Needles made of Wood, ‘either thick or thin, according to which it is intended 3 and to fuch a Perfection are they arrived in this Sort of Manufa&ure, that they ‘can make it as {mooth, and as foft, as a Piece of Englifh Broad- Cloth; and much ftronger. ail J We fhould have obferved that they have no fuch Things? as Glaf$-Windows ‘to: their Hoafes, however there are either Jarge round or fquare Vacancies in every: Room to receive both Air and Light; thefe Sort af Windows are covered gene- rally all. Dey with Shutters’ of thick Plank,” in which. many Holes are bored, in order to keep out the Heat of theSun. As for Chimneys they have no fuch Thing: In all great Houfes there is a Room appropriated for the Dreffing the Vi- uals, where the Fire is made in a Corner upon the Ground, and thofe that are’ employ’d in that - Service muft be well fmoaked.: The» common People frequently: make their Fires without‘Doors, for Rice and Fifh they never eat without fome Sort of Dreffing, but Fleth, to fave Trouble and: Fire, they frequently eat raw. ; ; : The King maintains nothing which has: the State or Air of a Court, having no Guards! about his Perfon, fo that he frequently walks abroad in the Streets in the Drefs before deferibed;: without either Shoes or Stockings:' All thofe thatmeet him pafs him by, and go on apon their BufinefS without fhewing him any. external:Mark “of Re- fpett ; nay fo little a Notion have they: of. Gere- mony, that it is common for Perfons of ne A Defcription of MAGADOXA. 185 to eafe Nature in the Streets, perhaps when the King is paffing by, and yet he is as well obey’d - as any Prince in the World. i eave The Nobility walk about in as carelefs a Man- ner as the King, and are known by their Turbants ; the better Sort of the common People wear Caps of various Colours, the Reft go intirely naked. ’ The Queen alfo walks about the Streets with- out either Guards or Attendants, and would pals as unregarded as the King, were it not that the Gaiety of her Drefs muft draw the Eyes of the Spectators; fhe commonly wears a Garment of either purple or green Silk, which ‘being tied about her Wafte reaches down to her Heels, with Variety of white, red, and green Feathers artfully difpofed in her Hair, however fhe is bare-footed like’ the Reft, whilft all the poorer Sort of the Sex go quite naked, without thinking they carry. et Thing about them they ought to be afhamed The Wives of the Men of Condition indeed all wear Clothes, and are drefs’d in the fame Fafhion With the Queen, tho’ net all fo gay or fo rich; but whatever their Habits may be, they take Care always to’ fhew their naked Breafts, which hang down to their Bellies, if they have had any Chil- dren; and'which we fuppofe is look’d upon as a Beauty, by their taking Care to expofe them to. View; they alfo paint the Nipples red, which is the only Art they ufe in fetting off their Perfons ; they bring their Children into the World with little‘or:no Pain, and without an Hour’s Confine- Ment‘ from the common Occupations of Life, - ~~ The only Occafion when the King appears with’ ®ny Thing that looks like Pomp or Magnificence is, when he rides ‘abroad to take the Air, then he 18 mounted upon one of his Elephants, with his , Favourites ‘and Companions about him they pa have have a Way of fixing upon the Back of the Ble« phant, a Frame of Boards about eight or ten Foot Square, on which, he, with fuch as he carries with him to bear him Company, fit as commo- dioufly as if in a Room, whilf two of his Ser- vants on Foot conduct the Beaft ; yet even here, tho” he goes thro’ any Crowd of People, no Man ftops to do him Homage, or to pay him any Sort of Obedience, nor does he feem to expett it, ha- ving no. Notion, that the Subjetts are to be kept in Awe by the shew of Grandeur which fuarrounds: their Prince: A Mark of good Senfe, beyond what is to be met with in the Courts of European. Princes. His Way of maintaining an inward Refpeé. in the Hearts of the People «which they have Senfe enough to know, is preferable to that External Which confift only in Shew aud Appearance, and fometimes conceals Contempt and Hatred at Bot- tom, is by doing Juftice in his Perfon, according to the beft of his Judgment and Capacity; he is himfelf both King and Judge, and decides all Dif- putes betwixt Man and Man (which indeed are very few) by a perfonal Mearing of the Caufe of Complaint. He is affifted by feven or eight Per- fons, who always fit about him for that Purpofe, and may be called his Councellors; nor was. it ever fo much as fulpe&ed that any of thefe, ei- ther for Bribe, or Reward, or Promife, “endea- voured to influence the King in his Judgment. Uc rarely happens that any Perfons is condemn’d to die; for as every Thing they feed on, except — Rice, Plantanes, Oil, Ge. is acquired by hunting and fifhing, there. are few Occafions for Thett amongft them ; however, when any Perfon has me- rited that Punifhment, the common Way of exe- cuting is, by throwing the Criminal, into the Den ' (which they call Bodyzaw) amongft the wild Beafts, ag fuch i A Defcription of MAGADOXA. 187 fuch as Tygers, Leopards, and Crocadiles which are kept hungry before-hand for that Purpofe. _ There are many other Creatures kept in that Bodizaw or Den which are peculiar to this Coun- try, fuch as the Augazet, which is the largeft of all their Beafts, except the Elephant, it is of a white or rather yellowifh Colour, with Streaks of Black running like Veins all over it, and alfo black Spots, the Face is not unlike that of a Cat, it has long fharp Claws ; when it is wild, it is extreamly fierce, but may be rendered as gentle and tractable as a Houfehold Dog. | A Boxee is an amphibious Creature, which al- — Ways lives by the Sides of Rivers, and feeds prin-- Cipally upon Fifh; it has a long Bill, and in alt Refpeéts the Shape and Form of a Bird, but wants Wings to fly, and inftead of Feathers, is covered all over with a hard Scale refembling the Bark of a Tree, and fo tough that an Arrow will not enter it; their Legs are very thick and fcaled in the fame Manner with their Bodies, having fharp Claws to their Feet ; the Natives are more afraid of this Creature than of any other in the whole Coun- try, efpecially, if they are obliged to travel any Where by Night, near the Sides of Rivers, for they fay it is fo fierce and voracious, that it will feize either Man or Beaft.. © fis The Maffau is another amphibious Creature, very. large, whofe Body is fcaly like that of the Bozee, but it is of a different Colour, being reddifh; the Bill alfo differs from that of the Bozee, for it is ‘thort and: fhaped like that of a Pidgeon; Itis a timorous Creature, that upon, hearing the leaft Noife immediately rufhes for the Water; its Food Sechieibe Weedsacs ¢ ie: Se a ay _ Ay Sache. is a Beaft about the Size of a large Lion, of a. dark brown Colour, with Shades of black all over the Body, and a Scale don. a Ma a ee ee ac 188 A Defcription of MAGADOX A. Back, as hard as Horn, the Eyes are’ extreainly fierce, and in all Refpetts a terrible Creature to Jook at, but yet. a Child would frighten it~ At the Sight of any human Creature it flies with great Swiftnefs to the Woods. oe One of the King’s Diverfions is; to go to’ this Bodizaw or Den of wild Beafts to fee them play ; they are ‘perfectly under the Command of their Keepers, and are taught to play Tricks like Dogs ; nay, it is almoft his only Diverfion, unlefs fleep- ing half the Day can be called a Diverfion.’ As for riding out upon his Elephants, ‘as we ‘took Notice before, he does it fo feldom, it ean fearce be reckon’d amougft his Pleafures. _, Hate, Plenty, and the Heat of the Climate have render’d the People in general inclined to be florh- ful, they have no Trade with the “Neighbouring Nations, nor do they defire to have any;” it is true, they have a little Sort of Traffick amoigtt themlelves, as thofe. that hunt and fhoot Goats; Venilon, Ce. we them often in Exchange for Dungeree Stuffs ; they have alfo Gold and Silver among ft themfelves, but very bafeé;——they don’t. feem incliued to Cruelty,“ unlefs againit white Men, whom they are taught to hate, tho” they fearce ever fee any; but there isa Kind of hifto- rical Tradition amongft them (for they have 10 Books) that their Country was once invaded *by White Men, who committed many Crueltiés upon them, and indeed it is likely that ‘the Porrugue/e might formerly have landed amongft them, While © they were making their India Difcoveries,and perhaps might have treated them like Slaves, from whence comes this Tradition, and which is the Cafe of their, inbred Hatred to white Mento this Day. °° -,, Thus the Molotto had Leifure to divert him- felf with obferving the Cuftoms and’ Manners of thefe ftrange People, who have tio Commerce or Com- ich & A Deferipsion of Macapoxa. 189 Communication with the Reft of the World. One Day as he was walking in the City, he was ex- treamly furpriz’d and terrified at. the Sight of a Bird of a monftruous Size, which ftalk’d clofe by him in the Street: It was what they call a.Pyowe, but he had never feen one of them before, fo that tho’ it is tame and inoffenfive, it is no Wonder he fhould be frighten’d at. it. ¢ A {iene as toShape, differs from all Birds amongft t. eir Colour is a whitith. brown, and in the Pinion of each Wing they have five, black, and five {carlet Feathe:s, yery broad, and above a Foot long; their Legs are. of a bright red, fomething {mall for fo large a Body, and above three Foot in Length; their Necks are alfo extreamly long, fo that from the Foot to the Top of their Heads they are generally ten Foot in Heighth; they breed in, the Mountains, never fit on more than two Eggs at a Time, which always produce a Male and, Female :;. The People catch tfem,.when - they are young, and let them loofe in the Streets, taking Pleafure in the Sight of them, for they do no Mifchief, and feed on any Thing they can picl: up. . He was fo encouraged by this Indulgence which was fhew’d him, that he thought he might go where he pleafed, and that the Reftzidtion which was laid. upon him, was as good as taken off; wherefore, he, was tempted by his Curiofity, one Day to walk out of the City,.and. was feen by a great many People. The Day following the Acca- bo or King, .with a ftern Countenance, ask’d him if he had been.out of the City? He was {o terri- fied at his Looks, knowing allo, that he had been commanded not to take that Liberty, that he was not able to anfwer: ‘The King’s Son who was pre- fent, {milingly. ask’d him, why he did, not {peak ? This, recovered him. a. little from his Aftonifh- Ment, fo, that he had, the Courage to own, he age 5 reg ar . “ay 190 6A Defeription of MAGADOXA. then the King with a more pleafing Afpet, de- fired to know of him, whether he had been to fee his ALvorzacks, or Tombs, he anfwered no; tho? he had a great Defire of feeing them, becaufe he had heard much Talk of them. So the Thing pafs’d over without any farther Reprimand for. this Time. The next Day in the Afternoon, the King rid ut on an Elephant in the Manner before defcribed, ordering the Molotto to attend him, and went to vifit the Afoorzacks, or Monuments of his Anceftors, which are fituated about three or-four Miles from the City: The Magnificence and Beauty of thefe Tombs, are almoft incredible, confidering that it is in a Country of Barbarians that they are made ; the Molotto was greatly furprized at their extra- ordinary Grandeur ; the King took Notice of his Aftonithment, and was not difpleafed at it, and enquiring of him how he liked them, the Molotto antwered, he had never feen any Thing equal to them, in‘all his Life, and that he believed Stran- gers would travel from all Parts of the World to. fee them, did they but know fuch Things were there. The King then enquired of him concern- ing the Tombs of the white Men, and ask’d feve- ral Queftions about the Ceremonies ufed in Fune- rals in al} the Countries he had been in; the Mo- lotto gave him the beft Account he could, ftill ex- tolling the Beauty of thefe Monuments above thofe of all the World. The King-then enquired of him whether he knew how Gunpowder was made, he anfwered no; that it was made by the white Men, and that he was but little acquainted with their Ways. He anfwer’d in this Manner, know- ing that if he fhould fpeak with Refpe& of white Men, it might do him tome Prejudice, becaufe of the Averfion he found they had towards them. Upon the whole, the King appeared pleafed. _ the A Defeription of MAGADOXA. 19% the Converfation of this Day, and the Molotto fancied he fhould grow into Favour. But two or three Days after, an Accident hap- pened which put him again into.a Fright, going Out to walk as ufual, he ventured as far as the Moorzacks, or Tombs,for he took a fingular Pleafure in the Sight of them. It happened in the mean Time that they wanted him, he was not to be found in the. King’s Houfe, or about the City ; upon which, there were feveral Perfons fent in Search of him different Ways, one of them found him among the Afoorzacks, or Tombs, and brought him home, he was difmally frightened, when he underftood the King’s Difpleafure ; where- fore, as foon as he came into his Prefence, he fell down upon his Face, as is practiced by thofe with whom he is difpleafed. The King ask’d him in an angry Tone where he had been? he anfwered at the Afoorzacks, or Tombs; then the King en- quired of thofe that had been fent in Search of him, whether. it was true, they affured him they . had found him there; upon hearing of which, he feemed to be immediately pacified, and faid to him (Korah) which fignifies properly to rife, but is never faid, except when he forgives. Then the King ask’d him, if he would not attempt to run way, provided he fhould appoint him to live Conftantly among: the Guards, who were maintain- ed for watching thofe Monuments? he anfwered no; and that he fhould be pleafed to pafs the Remainder of his Days in fo delightful a Place, _ Without ever having’ a With for feeing his own Country again, st ,» For this Time he was difmi(’d, but next Day being call’d up before the King, he was'told that we muft go to the Afcorzacks, or Tombs, there to _ Wait and do Duty as one of the’ Guards ; there © Was a Bamzaw or Prieft fent along with him, who ak eae oH Wis 192 A Defcription of MAGADOXA. was to inftru& him in his Duty there. On the Way as he went, the Bamzau or Prieft told him, that he muft live conftantly among the Monuments, . and that he would have Meat, Drink, and Lodg- ing provided for him without any Trouble, that he muft not take the Liberty of coming to the City, or going beyond the Bounds prefcribed, which the Reft of the Guards whom they call Paffaus would fhew him; that he muft be obliged to watch every fecond Night, to take Care that the Lamps which burnt in the Tombs. were fupplied with Oil, and never went our, and to keep the Tombs from any Filth or Naftiuefs. . When they arrived at the Place, the Bamzau or Prieft commanded all the Paffzus or Guards to be called together, acquainting them that the King had fent this Molotto amongft them to do the fame Duty, and ordered one whom he called out from amongft the Reft, to return to the King with him, it being the King’s Pleafure that the Molotto fhould fupply his Place.’ This was readily obeyed, and they departed together. The Paffaus or Guards received him civilly enough, they immediately began Acquaintance with him, explaining to him all the Particulars of their Duty, and fhewed him the Bounds with in which he was to confine himfelf; telling him if he pafs’d thofe Limits, they muft be obliged to killhim. This Order feemed a little too fevere, but he fancied it was only faid to terrify him, _Jeaft he fhould take it into his Head to attempt an Efcape; he flattered himfelf fo for two Rea- fons, Firft, becaufe of the Indulgence which had been fhewn him when he ventured to exceed his Orders in going out of the City ; and fecondly he took Notice that the Bamzau or Prieft {poke t0 the Paffaus or Guards apart, which he fancied was inftruéting them to keep him in Ignorance as t? the Defeription of MAGADOXAs 193 f their Orders; they brought fome — tice and Oil cold, and told him he muft watch that Night, becaufe it was the Turn of the Perfon in whofe Place he was come; in order to which, they brought him a Watch-Coat made of Hair, which they work very curioufly with Needles, fo that the whole Coat is of one entire Piece without a Seam; it hangs from the Shoul« ders ‘down to the Ground, but has no Sleeves, fo that it is more like a Cloak than a Coat, The Sun being fet, which is the Time they en4 ter upon the Watch, every two Men began to fix their Pohalick, over againft the Door of the Afoor- — rack they were to watch; but to underftand this — Matter, it will be neceffary to explain what a Pohalick is A Pobalick is a Kind of a Tent, Contrived to fhelter them from the Inclemencies of the Weather, for the Nights are fometimes very cold there, efpecially if it rains, wherefore, they take four Poles of about eight Foot long; which, ‘inftead of fixing in the Ground, are plac’d in four Stone-Sockets, placed on Purpofe, oppo- fite to each Moorzack, for that Ufe, with Crofsa Poles reaching from one to the other; but in« ftead of CanvafS they hang over it a Covering of Palmatu Leaves fewen togethers the two oldeft Standers have their Poft oppofite to the King’s Moorzack, the Reft are pofted according to theie Seniority, for they aré exat& Obfervers of the Rules of Precedence; the youngeft alfo in each Pohalick, fetches Wood for Fire, which is alfo abfolutely neceffary, as well to keep off the Muf- -ketoos which would be, othérwife, very trouble. fome, as to correct the Damps. As foon a8 the Sun rifes, he alfo takes down the Pohalick, fweeps up the Afhes very clean, which remain of the. Fire, and carries them away, that the Place may appear perfeétly neat. It is his Duty allo to go Vou. Il. N th 194 A Deéfcription of MAGADOX AS to the Bankoos ({o they call the Steward © . Moorzacks) for the Provifion of the Day, which he is afterwards to drefs both for himfelf and his Comrade. : Sats - This Part of the Duty was not difagreeable to the Molotto, for having no Books to read, he would have grown melancholly for Want of fome- thing to divert his Time, had he been entirely idle; their Allowance of Provifion was fufficient, and very good in its Kind. On Sundays and Tuef- days it was Fleth, either Beet, Mutton, or Goat, and Rice for Bread. On Wednefdays, Kaja (we have already told what that is) Ad¢ondays and Fri- days, Fith and Plantanes. Thurfdays and Saturdays Plantares, Rice, and Oil. Their Fifh was excel Jent in its Kind, but they ufually drefs’d it with- out taking out the Guts, and which they eat with it inftead of Sauce, but the Molotto corre&ed this Part of their Cookery, and having gutted the Fith before he broiled it, he found his Comrades very well pleas’d, and they always managed it AO nA ers oe See ee Wier al : While he pafs’d his Life here pleafantly enough, — one Day the Accabo, or King, fent a Guard to. fe‘ch him to the City; he was extreamly frigh-. tened at this unexpected Turn, and enquired of _ thofe that conduéed him, into the Meaning of it, * but they could give him no Account of it, but hurried him along very quick 5 when they arriv’d at the.City, they did not carry him before the Accabo, or King, as he expected, but conduéted him ftrait to the Haulob, or Prifon, where he had been . before confined. He had Bot been there above two Hours when his old Friend Morafab came to make him a Vifit, whofe Opinion he ask’d concerning his Coufinement, AMforafab told him, Ke’: judged it to be for no other Reafon, than becaule there had been a Schabew, or Ship, feen sae ae oe 3 nin __. A Defiription of MAGADOXA. 19 hing at a great Diftance off the Coaft, that there Were Men on the Hills then watching of her, and Others lying in Wait to furprize any that fhould attempt to come on Shore. While they were in Difcourfe, the Kasboo or Jaylor came in with fome boiled Rice and Fifh, and confirmed what | Morafab-had told him, and cheared him up by ] *furing him, that no Harm was intended him, that he was only confined. to prevent his making his | Efcape.. The Molotto knowing that every Thing } he thould fay, would be told again the King, be- 3 Caufe any Perfon may {peak to him with the ut- } Mmoft Freedom at, any Time, except when he is fitting in Judgment, told the Kasbco, that he had — Sliven over all Thoughts of vifiting his native } Country, more, having neither Wife nor Children ; _ norwas he defirous of feeing any. other Part of that Country, having taken a firm Refolution to Obey the Orders very punétually of never going beyond the Limits of the Adcorzacks; the Kasho } told him, that if he had any Value for his [sifee ic | Would be beft for him to do fo, for if he fhould | #t any Time be catch’d attempting any Efcape, he he would be ferved juft as the white Men had been, the Molotto anfwered he fhould deterve it, fince the King had been fo gracious to him, not Only to give him his Life, but. to appoint him to dive in a Place which he liked above any Thing he had ever feen, % 10 All this Difcourfe was reported that Night to ‘n) | the King, the Confequence of which was, that he Was fent for the next Morning ; the frft Queftion _ the King ask’d him was, whether that Shabew or Ship which had appear’d in Sight, wad the fame | Mwhich he came? He anfwered, he cduld not’ tell, Unlefs be was to fee it, (but that could not ke done now, for the was gone off without coming to *n. Anchor, or fending her Beat on Shore.) The N 2 King 196 A Defcription of MAGADOXA. King then ask’d him, whether he had a Defire to — return back to the Aooriacks? He anfwered, it was what he longed’ for of all Things,yvand re- peated the fame Things concerning the Pleafure he took in. that Place, which he had done before to the Kasboo., he found this tickled the King’s Vanity, and put him inte good Humour, where- ~ fore, he commanded him to be conduétted back; whither he arrived with a much lighter Heart. than he left it, having the Satisfattion alfo of fee- ing his Comrades mighty well pleas’d at his fafe Return amongft them. : - Here he pafs’'d his Time without any Care, ha- ving every Thing provided for him, being at Lei- fure all the Day long to divert himfelf as he would, for except taking his Watch in his Turn, he had nothing to do, but to clean the AZr- zacks every new Moon, both within and without, and to take: Care that the Lamps around them fhould be fupplied with Oil, and never go out. He obierv’d his Companions employed their Leifure Time all in fome Work, moft of them in making fome little Curiofities, which the Town{- People ufed to walk out, and buy of them, and which enabled them to purchafe Liquor and other Things they -had an Inclination for ; his Com- rade in particular ufed to amufe himfelf. with making Fifhing-Nets, but thefe Nets are very dif- ferent from thofe ufed in Europe, they are made of Sea-Grafs, wove out into a certain Length, and the Fifherman before he ufes them, faftens to them a certain Number of Hooks (for they are igno- rant of the Art of contriving Nets to catch Fifh without Hooks) his Comrade with a great Deal of Eafe ufed to make one of thefe a Week, and he obferving how he work’d them, did not doubt but he could do the fame 5 therefore he begg’d ‘of his Comrade to give him a little of his Sea- Grafs, BU, KARAS E EL ET RBER DERSLER LR) A A Defcription of Macapoxa. 197 Grafs, with which he began to make Trial, and fucceeded fo well, that in a few Days he finithed a » Net, which he truck’d away for a Quantity of Sea Grafs. He was now fet up for anew Trade, and was fo induftrious in it, that he work’d his Nets with much morse Curiofity than any of his Partners, and of Confequence had better Bufinefs, fo that in a little Time he was able to purchafe a Piece of Dun- geree Linnen with his own Earnings,y.of which he made himfelf a Waftecoat after the Englifh Fathi- On, and a Pair of long Drawers ; but he had not worn them above a Day or two when the Bankoo, or Steward of the Moorzacks, commanded him to. leave off the Waftecoat, that he might appear like the reft, who wore nothing but a Piece of any Stuif they could get, about their Waftes, to cover their Nakednefs. LX ig Upon the whole, he found he fhould have no teat Occafion to provide for his Back, which oc- Cafioned his being lefs diligent in his Work ; how- ever, he purchafed a Afohaz Covering to keep him Warm in the Night, with the Bazkoo’s Permiffion, and happening to talk fometimes with his Com- . tades about Nets, and defcribing how they were made in. Europe, the Bankoo asked him if he could Make one in the fame Manner? But finding he Was not to lay out his Earnings to pleafe himfelf, he anfwered, he could not; however, an Accident fell out foon after which brought him into great Favour. As it was Part of his Duty to go to the Bankoo’s generally in the Morning, for the Allowance of Provifion for the Day for himfelf and Comrade, he obferved, that tho’ their Allowance was fuffici- €nt in all other Refpeé&s, it was very fhort as to | _ Salt. One Day, when they had Plantanes, Rice . and Oil, he begg’d hard for a little more Salt, but oS he we the 198 4 Defcription of MAGADOKA. the Baakco cold him it could not. be done without defrauding fome of the reft, for Salt is exceeding fearce among them, hay ng no Way of making it, nor any Way of providing it but’ by fearching among the Rocks, near the Sea Side, where they pick it up in Bite-about the Bignefs of a Nut, and fometimes laiger; here Nature’ makes it by the ' continual beating of the’Sea‘in one Place; but the Quantities they are able to procure. this-‘Way aré very fmall; wherefore, fivding himfelf difappoin- ted, he happened to fay; that if he was at Liberty he could make Salt as plenty in Afagadoxa as it was in Europe. The Bankoo the fame Day acquain- ted the Accabo with what he had faid, fo that the rext Day he was fént for: He was no fooner arri- ved in the Prefence of the Accaio but he immedi- ately asked him if he could make Salt? He an- {wered, he believed he could, (and: the ruth on’t was he had often feen it made.) At the fame Time he deferibed the Manner of making it. The Accavo immediately order’d him to go.to Work; and to;have what Affiftance he requir’d; he did fo, and was fo induftrious and fuccetsful in it, that in fix Months Silt was as plenty amongft them as any where elfe. ne iee i ~The Accabo {ent for him again, and inquired of him concerning Fifhing-Nets, as they were ufed in Europe: He deicribed them to him; upon which he asked him if he could make one of them? Hé had ‘been asked the fime Queftion before by the Banko, and denied that he had any Skill that Way 3. but confidering with himfelf now that fince he was likely to pafs his whole Life amongft thefe People, jt’was his Bufinefs to gain their Favour all the Ways he could, he anfwered, he never had made any; however, if he (the Accabo) thought fr, he f The would try and do the beft he could. ~ A Defcription of MAGADOXA. 199 . The Accabo feemed mightily. pleafed with. his ~ Willingnefs, and asked him if he fhould want any to affift him? He anfwered he thould, and defired eight Perfons ‘to be employed in Spinning, and fix in Knitting. Thefe People were to follow his Di- —retions, accordingly they fell to Work, and, in the Space.of two Months, finifhed a Net eighty fa- thom long. aes When it was finifhed the Accabo himfelf had a Mind to fee what Effett ic would have beyond their own Nets ; accordingly he went on board o.e of their Junks, attended by his Favourises, having with him alfo feveral of their moft experienced Fifhermen: They had the good Luck to take a good Number of Fith the firft awl, among which were {everal Sorts they had never be‘ore feen, be- ig fuch Fifh as will not take the Hook, and fuch as always. keep deep in the Water. The Agcabo. - appeared highly contented with this Succefs, and Ordered feveral more of them to be made, which could be done without him now that he had fhewn them a Way, fo that Fih foon became infinite- ly more p'enty thanever it had been hefore. The Molotto expected no lefs than to be re- warded with fome extraordiiary Recompence for the publick Services; the leaft Favour he thought could be granted him would be to give chim the Liberty of a Freeman, and to let him live as an Inhabitant of the City, and to get his living amongft them, by any Sort of Induftry he could; but he found himfelf greatly miftaken, for all his Reward confifted in being fent back to the Afoorzacks, upon the fame Foot he had been. ‘before. | ives : - It is true, he paffed-his Time here with a great eal of Tranquility, and began to reconcile him- felf to the Thoughts of remaining there his whole Life, he was coayinced that nothing he could do Ey Wedges oe eee PVE WIT EWE WEN-"s Vw ss Sah Zi RISES PATE ASE RAY 200 A Defcription of MAGADOXA, to ingratiate himfelf, would procure him any Fa- vour or Liberty ; and an Accident fell out which gave him a terrible Notion of their Severity : One of the Paffaus or Guards, on a Night when it was not his Turn to be upon the Watch, went pri- wately into the City, contrary to Orders, and re- turned again before it was Day, but not fo pri- vately but he was feen by fome Perfon, who went and difcovered it to the Accato, the Confequence of which was, that he was fent for under a Guard the next Morning, and, being brought into the King’s Prefence, was, without any more Ceremo- ny, executed in the following Manner; He was obliged to kneel down, leaning his Head forwards, whilft the Executioner, with a heavy Bar of Tim- _ ber, ftruck him on the lower part of his Head, and ‘beat out his Brains. — ; ' This Example fo terrified the poor Molotto, that in fifteen Years he was in that Place he never ventured beyond the Limits, except when he was fent for by the Accabo, or to attend a Burial, which he was obliged to do when any of the Pa/- faus or Guards died, for they were not buried among the Adoorzacks, no more than any of the other of the common People. : ~ But it is Time that we defcribe this Place, which is not only the greateft Curiofity of this Country, but would pafs for a Piece of Magnificence in rhofe Nations where Arts and Sciences are known, and it is fit to be the more particular in it, as it may appear ftrange, that thofe People who are Barba- rians in all other Refpefts, fhould obferve fo much Pomp and Decoration in their funeral Cere- monies... ares oh Rens ' This burying Place, which they call Hoynatz, is pleafantly fituated in a beautiful Valley between - “two Hills, about two Engii{h Miles from the City . of Magadoxa , there are in it twenty nine ee: © a ' RagkE A Defcription of MAGADoxA. 201 zacks or Tombs, all which were firft built by the Kings, at whofe Expence the Paffaus or Guards are kept, their being four to each Aoorzack, who watch two and two by Turns, who take Care of the Lamps, which continually burn within, and keep every Thing clean to the greateft Nicety. Tho’ thefe A@oorzacks may be faid properly all to belong to the King, yet feveral other Perfons of the firft Rank are buried in them, by the King’s f{pecial Favour, for he fometimes gives a A4Zor- zack to fome Favourite, as a burying Place for his Family ; notwithftanding which Gift, when any of the faid Family dies, the King’s Permiffion muft be asked anew for burying him in the Atcorzack, the Reafon is, that it frequently happens that when a Perfon who has this Kind of Right to be buried in a Moorzack difobliges the King, he takes no Notice of it as long as the Party lives; but when he dies, he forbids him to be buried in the Afoorzack, by way of Punifhment. This may fhew what a Veneration they have for thefe Places, when they feem to think that all Happinefs, as well as Honour, confifted in laying the Body after Death in one of thefe Asoorzacks 5 and, indeed, it isone of the chief Pleafures of the King, as well as of the common People to vifit thefe Places often, which they do with a Kind of religious Refpett. The largeft Adcorzack or Tomb of all is the King’s own, no other Perfon being ever buried therein ; it is eighty Foot fquare, built of black and white Marble mix’d, with a Kind of Cupola . _ at Top, and over it a long Spire, the Infide, both Floor and Sides, is white Marble curioufly po- lifhed, and the Cieling or-Cupola painted green ; There are in it forty five Boozes of Gold, ftanding On as many Pedeffals of black Marble, of about four Foot high, ; A UEVEUTVEV ES SPI SPATE ASF WRAY 202 A Defiription of MAGADOKA. A Beoze is a kind of round Pot with a Cover; about eight Inches deep, and five Diameter, in which are placed the Afhes of the Dead of thofe that are depofited there; 1 fay the Afhes, becaufe the Bodies are firft_burned. | bas There are alfo fixteen large Lamps of Gold, with nine Lights to each, four in a Corner, and one Jarge one in the Middle, wich two Lights; the darge ones are never lighted but at Funerals, when they make a fine Shew, but that in the Middle barns conftantly. By the forty five Boozes, wherein are depofited the Afhes, it may be conjeCtured that as. many of their Kings lie there, and fo the Molotto was in- formed. The fecond for Largenefs belongs to the Ciffues or Queens, (for, it muft be obferved, that the Males ard Females are never:buried in the fame | Moorzack :) It is built all of white Marble, and is &fy nine Foot fquare, the infide Wall exaély the fame with the outfide, but the Floor is of black and wh'te Marble laid in Squares, much like what ~may be feen in Noblemens Houfes in Exrope. There are fifty fix Boozes-of Gold, ftanding on black Merbie Pedeftals, there are twelve large Lamps, each with feven Lights, three in each Corner, and one of Silver in the Middle, which burns con- ftantly, as in the King’s. © Ee “The third belongs to the Acobibs, or Princes ; it is alfo built of white Marble; i's Form is exactly round, being feventy nine Foot in Circumferente ; there are in it fifty three Boozes Handing on black Marble Fedeftals, with thirteen Lamps of Silver avith feven Lights each; twelve of them are plac’d ina circular Form, and the thirteenth in the Mid, dle, which burns contftantly, the Cieling is painted Green. : ‘The A Defeription of MAGADOXA, 203 The: fourth belongs to the Matotzes or Prin- cefles; It is built of a greenish Marble, vein’d with black, being of a circular Form like that of the Acobibs or Princes, and much about the fame ih Circumference; the infide Wall is of white Marble; the Floor of various Colours, as black, white, and green; and the Cieling which is made in the Form of a Cupola, is yellow: It hath fixty four Boozes, ftanding on Pedeftals of black and white Marble, and eight large Silver Lamps with feve Lights to each, placed in a circular Form, befides one in the middle which burns con- ftantly. **The fifth belongs to the Foramzeps or Male Chil- dren of the Prince; it is built of a white Marble, with large black Veins in it, both the infide Wall and Floor being of a light grey Marble; it is thirty Foot fquare, having nineteen Boozes of Gold, and fixty of Silver, ftanding on Pedeftals of the fame Sort of Marble, with the outfide Wall; there are in it eight large Silver Lamps, hanging two in each Corner, befides one in the middle which burns continually. The fixth Afcorzack belongs to the Squeenzibs or Female Children of the Prince; it is built of ‘-acurious red Marble, with Veins of white running thro’ it, and is twenty eight Foot {quare, the in- fide Wall and Floor being of white Marble; i¢ | has 2 hundred and nineteen Boozes of Silver-ftand- ing on: Pedefta!s of a blewith grey Marble; it has eight Silver Lamps difpofed two in a Corner, be~ fides one in the middle that burns continually. ‘All thefe here taken Notice of, belong to thofe of the King’s own Blood, -ut as it may feem a little too tedious to be particular in the Defcrip- tion of them all, we fhall only obferve who the great Perfons are, who are diftinguifhed by ts o0r= 204 A Defeription of MAGADOXA. Moorzacks affigned to them alone, or to. their Families. : Firft, There is one appointed for the burying ‘Place of the Baamzan or chief Prieft,; one to the Baulumzu or Treafurer ; one to the Jocybauthaux or — chief Councellor ; one to the Afoorenzep or Head General ; —— one to the Caffa or Secretary ; — one to the Paremzebs, which are a few People fo called by Way of Title, and are their chief No- bility ;—— one to their Wives, whom they call Tepfhoyes;-—— one to the Aorepzus or Generals of the Elephants,;—— one to the Hammons or Go- vernors of Towns ,;——one to the Hoyzepa or Head Teacher of the Elephants; —— one to the Sancof or Head Doétor. There is alfo one particularly kept for fuch as not being otherwile intitled to this Honour, fhall perform fome brave Aion in the War — there is one belonging to the Zanfham or Matter of the King’s Mufick-—— One to the Divatza- bowes or Concubines of the King—~—One to the Panpuzams or Male Children of the King’s Concu- bines One to the Parrasquas or Male Children of the High Prieft—- One to the Gauzets or Wives of the chief General One to the Watotzas or Wives of the Governors of Towns Que to the Hoydencbs or Wives of the Treafurer One to, the Okenzegs or Wives of the chief Coun- ’ cellor. But when I mention a Afoorzack to belong to the Treafurer, or to the General, it muft not be underftcod to be for the Ufe of him and_ his Heirs, but the next Perfon who fucceeds in his Poft is to be buried there, and his Heirs are no Ways intitled, unlefs they happen to fucceed him in his Poft. Thefe. A Defeription of MAGADOXA. = 205 Thefe are all built of Marble of different Co- lours, fome larger, and fome lefs, fome {quare, others quite round, fome having a {mall Spire at Top, and others without, yet the Ornaments within are as rich in many of them, as in thofe belonging to the King or Prince——- As for Ex- ample, in the AMoorzack of the Baamzan oF high Prieft, of the Baumlozn or Treafurer, of the Af- remzep or General, and of the Cafa or Secretary, the Boozes are all Gold; in others there are fome of Gold and fome of Silver, and confidering what a great Number there are of them, thefe Monu- — ments contain a vaft Wealth. ating cote - When the King, Prince, or any other Perfon who is intitled to a Place in one of thefe Monu- ments dies, the Corps is immediately ftripp’d naked, (let it be Manor Woman) after which, it is laid upon a Bier, and a thin Piece of Purple Silk being thrown over it, it is carried to be lain in State for fome Days to a certain Houfe, or Hall, built for that Purpofe, a little Way without the City——- This Building confifts of one large Room, fixty Foot in Length, and twen- ty fix broad, being thirty Foot high, and flat at Top; the Stone is a curious white Marble, it ts illuminated within with a great Number of Sikes ver Lamps; in the middle ftands a white Marble Table, fupported by fix Marble Pedeftals about three Foot high, on which is laid the Body. When they intend to remove it to the Huj- — ~ nabs or burying Place, they exactly obferve the Setting of the Sun; at which Time comes the chief Prieft, attended by all thofe who have a Right to be buried in thefe Places (for no others muft affift upon thefe Occafions) and drawing out a fharp Inftrument, which they call a Adockdoo, and which ferves the Ufe of a Knife, he opens the Body of the deceas’d, takes out the Heat ; z an 206 A Defeription of MAGADOXA. and delivers it into the Hands of the neareft Re- lation, who ftands ready for that Purpofe, at the Prieft’s right Hand; when this is done; the Body is carried to the lower End of the Hall, where.a Fire is prepared in a Hole, five Foot deep in the Ground, and about as many broad; the Body is put into the faid Fire, where it is confumed, then the Heart is again delivered into the Hands of the Prieft, who places it:in a little Stone-Pot, and puts it into the Fire; where it remains till it is dried to a Powder ; then the Athes of the Body being dried up, are put into the Booze, as, is. alfo the Heart; after which, they proceed to the Avy- natz, the neareft Relation carrying the Booze. When they arrive at the Afoorzack, which upon this Oc- cafion is all illuminated, the Booze is again delis vered into the Hands of the Prieft; who going’. into the Afcorzack alone, fhuts the Door after him, he remains a Quarter of an Hour, places the Bco- ze upon the Pedeital prepared for it, and) then returns, which makes an End of the whole Cere- mony. “" Tan peas SR All this is done without a Word; nor is there anv Sign of Sorrow or Lamentation amongft the Kindred, of the deceas’d, nor is it the Cuftom ever to {peak of him, or name him at all after he is dead. t we Thus we have given an Account of the Order _ and Ceremonies cf their Funerals, and of the Mag- ~ nificence of their Monuments, which make.a moft glorious Shew at a Diftance, nor are they lefs beautiful when near, the Materials of which they are built being very fine, and their Scituation de- lightful. anes nee But as to their Religion we can give but imper- fett Accounts, for they fcarce know what it is themfelves; they never ask’d the Molotto one Word concerning his Religion, and when he en- quired . Could make neither Head nor Tail of it: A Defiription of MAGADOXA. 307 quired of theirs, they had very little to fay about — it, but told fuch an incoherent Story, that he There is a Mofque or Temple about halt a Mile out of the City, of which they give a fabalous Account, as that it was built in ore Night, but no Man could’ tell how, or by whom; but their general Opinion was, that it was built: by Avos God of ~ the Sea, and at certain Times they ufed to flock, : and pay a Kind of Devotion there, but they could not tell why or wherefore. However by the beft Obfervations our Molotto could make, it appear’d to himas if they had feveralWorfhips amongf them, for he took Notice that fome paid their Devotions to a little Image, not unlike a Wolf, which they kept in their Houfés, and which are fo common, that the poorer Sort of Peop!e make them of Bits of Wood, of about four or five Inches long, and fell them about the Streets. an They bear no Sort of Hatred or Antipathy to Chriftians, as Chriftians, as we fee the Tucks and moft of the Sects of A¢ahomet do ; but the Truth On’t is, they do not know what a Chrift‘an is, yet (as we obferved before) they are bred up in @ Notion that white Men are alla Kind of Mon. fers, ahd they hate and deteft them, as we do Toads or othér poifonous Creatures, not for theic Religion, but their Colour... In Refpect to one thother they obferve the Laws of Society very Well, and perhaps there is lefs Fraud and fewer A&s of Tnjuftice committed among them, than in any Chriftian Country we can narre. So that Sur Molotto who was. now in a Manner naturaliz?d émongit them, and whofe Complexion was black fnough not to appear odious and terrible to them, Was as well ufed as the reft of the Paffaus or Guards, Or any other Petfon of equal Rank with him. It & 208 A Defiription of MAGADOKA. It is certain he once flattered himfelf with the Hopes of being placed in a better Condition of Life amongft them, or being fet at full Liberty, by Way ot Recompenee, for his inftruéting them in fome ufeful Things, which proved of publick Advantage to them, but he had long laid afide thofe vain Thoughts, for he found the of ‘their running fo fuddenly down the Fiill afterwards. The Fear of the crue! Death he fhould fuffer, in Cafe he fhould be taken, hinder’d: all: further: Confideration, fo‘ that without any more examining ‘them, he plunged himfelf ‘into the River, the:Current was very ftrong, however, he: made Shift.to ftem it better than he expeét- eds .andi whem he got over near the other Side, Providence fo order’d it, that ‘he was forced in-: 8 to A Defcription of MAGADOXA. 213 to a Part of the River, where there was an eddy Water, which drove him upon/ the Bank, fo that in about.the Space of-half am) Hour.or a little more, he ‘landed fafely,.on the:ther Side, ., » .. He was a little fpent with his Swimming,. wlien fitting down to.,take a» little, Breath, he ‘faw a Sight, which terrified him.as much as an Army of Enemies at his Heels could have done); it was 2 monftruous Aligator Jying near, the,Bank-fide, it appeared like fome prodigious.Oak in ‘the Wa- ter, and he has declared and given it under his Hand; that it feemed. to him large enough: to {wallow an Ox: At the fame Time he beheld his Purfuers, who were now arrived pretty near the. Oppofite, Bank, he. ftarted. up, and wingd with Fear; flew..rather than, tun, and there being fome ‘dhrubby low Wood near the River, he had. Pre- fence. of, Mind enough ,to.make his. Way. through them, knowing that if the Monfter, fhould follow him, it. could. not: pafs that,\Way, becaufe the an hicknefs of the, Wood, would hinder, it, befides it muft. prefently lofe Sight of him, and, indeed itis likely, that he owed his Efcape to. this lucky Thought; he run-on- with’ greater Swift= nefs.than at his, firft fetting out, (for his Fear had fupplied him with new Spirits,) but not with- . Out often looking back, which gave, him the Com-. fort of knowing that the Monfter and his Purfuers were, both out of Sight: When he had continued this Pace about two Hours, he came to a Valley betwixt two rifing Grounds, which.lay, open -to ‘the Sea, where he was joyfully furprized with a full View of the Ship lyirg. at .an.Anchor, not above a Mile from the Shore, he haftened imme- diately towards the Edge of the Water, and made @ Signal to them, by. waving his, Cap over. his Head, for hethought it to no Purpofe to hollow tT call, becaufe they were at too greatia Diftance eestidcst . O 3 to o14 A Defcription of MAGaDoxX A. to hear him. He continued this Aftion a confidé- rable Time, and began to grow impatient and un- eafy to the laft Degree, becaufe he faw them re- turn no Signal im Anfwer to him, whereby he might underftand that they faw him; or intend- ed'to fuccour him; but’ he was feon relieved from this Fright alfo, by the fudden Appearance of the Boat which was coming reund the Point of Land very near him, fhe being employed for fome Time in rowing along Shore, in order to difcover if the Country was inhabited. So great was his Joy at this Sight, and fuch was his Eagernefs of {peaking with them,’ know- ing by their Drefs they were Europeans, that he had not Patience to wait for their coming to him, but he ran haftily into the Water to meet them ; when he waded up to the Neck, he fet ‘himfelf afloat and fwam to the Boat, they proved to be ‘Dutchmen, however, they took him in, and ob- ferving the extream Satisfaction and Joy which appeared in his Countenance, they were very de- firous of knowing who he was, and whence he came, they {poke to him in Dutch, and tho’ he knew but little of that Language, yet he made a Shift to let them underftand that he fpoke En- - glifh, there were two or three amongit them that underftood our Language, and one of them fpoke ft very well; when be knew this, he gave them ‘to underftand in few Words that he was a Chri- ftian, that he had been a Prifoner or Slave in that Country for fixteen Years, that he had now made his Efcape, and was purfted by fix Barba- tians who were once come in Sight of him. As they had Arms in their Boat, they had 2 Mind to ftay a-while and fee whether thefe Barba- yians would appear, for they. had not beheld 2 human Creature fince they had -lain there, and were af Opinion that the Ceuntry was not in- ~ "| habited, A Defcription of MAGADOXA. 215, habited, (tho? the Ship had been feen from the Hills by the Natives) fo they lay upon their Oars. In about half an Hour five Men appear’d arm'd with Bows and Arrows, and running a great Pace; they came to the Water-fide, and beheld the Boat, which was but a little Diftance from them ; the Dutchmen fired two Mufquets, upon which they, difperfed and fled haftily away, but a little while after two of them came back again, and_ throwing down their Bows and Arrows, upon the Shore- fide, plung’d into the Sea, and feem’d to direé& their Way towards the Boat; the Dutchmen were furpriz’d what they could mean, but however, as nothing was to be fear’d from two naked Men, they lay ftill to fee what it would come to: In fine, the two Barbarians fwam to the Boat, and fpeaking to the Molotto, begg’d to be taken in, and to go along with them, for that they fthould certainly be put to fome cruel Death if they went back, for not having taken him and brought him back with them. The Dutchmen wete willing to receive them, knowing they would be worth Money to be fold for Slaves. When they got into the Boat, they gave an Account of lofing one of their Company in {wimming over the River, where they firft had Sight of the Molotto, who was devoured by an Alligator, in all Probability the fame the Mo- lotto had feen, and that the other three would tra- Vel as far as they could from their own Country, in order to fave their Lives; but for their Parts, they chofe rather to put themfelves on the Mer- cy of the white Men, than run the Hazard of being taken, or ftarved in pafling thro’ Countries they did not know. When he came on Board the Ship, he related to the Captain the whole Story of his Adven- tures, who finding he had been a Sea-faring Man, ee ee and 216 A Defcription of MAGADOXA. and that. he underftood’ Navigation pretty well, put him upon the Foot of an able Seaman. 9! '0 0. “They remain’d’ here about three Weeks, the Winds continuing contrary till: then, in which Time they laid in Water and Wood, ‘and diverted themfelves with Fithing , after ‘this they fail’d for’ Bathyia in the Eaf=Indies, where having ‘unla- dédand taken ina Cargoe of India Goods,they fail’d home for Holland’, the’ Moiotto:made two or three Voyages with them, but in the Year'1724; he: be~ jne“in Holland, and having a‘greit’ Defire to fee his old Captain, he embark’don the 28th of Afarch in Holland, avd pals’d into England, he’ found-out his ‘Captain who wasalive, and who: being overe! joy’d to fee him, ‘prov’d very generous’ to him,’ and ‘prevail’d ‘with’ him’ to’ give da Writing ‘the Particulars of all his Adventures, from whole Co-: py the foregoing Narrative is faithfully taken. <<: As’ to the Molotto he returi’d back to Holland, Jiidia Company, unle{s: he is lately dead, and’ fails fill in the Service’ of the Durch Eajh 217 pie. : oO FE ch eg “Cape. BELLAMY. ’ fy S\ we cannot, with, any Certainty, deduce. A this Man from his Origin, we 4hall begin: where we, find him firft a declared Enemy to Mankind, Capt. Bellamy and Paul Williams, in, two Sloops, had been upon a Spanifh Wreck, and not finding their Expeftation anfwered, as has been, mentioned in former Parts.of this, Hiftory, they: refolved not to Jofe their Labour, and. agreed to go upon the Account, a Term among the Pyrates,, which fpeaks their Profeffion. The firft, who had. the Misfortune to fall in their Way, was Captain Prince, bound from, Jamaica to Landon, in a Galley: built at that Port, whofe Cargo confifted: of Hle-. phantsTeeth, Gold. Duft, and other rich Merchans. dize. This Prize not, only enrich’d, but ftrengthe ened them; they immediately mounted this Gal-. ley with, 28 Guns, and put aboard 159 Hands of. _ different Nations ; Bellamy was declared. Captain, and the Velfel had her old Name continued, which. was Whidaw: This happen’d about. the latter End, of February, 1717. They, now thus fitted for the: continuing of their. defperate Refolution, fhaped . their Courfe for Virginia, which Coaft. they very ™much infefted, taking feveral Veflels :. They were wpon dhifting this Station, when they were very. SSS seberacks rib acaeb Barc near, ~ 218 Of Capt. BELLAMY, near, as the Pfalmift expreffes it, going quick down into Hell, for the Heayen’s beginning to lowre, prog- nofticated a Storm ; at the firft Appearance of the Sky being likely to be overcaft, Bellamy took inal} his {mall Sails, and Williams double reefed his main Sail, which was hardly done when a Thunder Shower overtook them with fuch Violence, that _ the Whidaw was very near over-fetting ; they im- mediately put before the Wind, for. they-had no other Way of working, having only the Goole Wings of the Fore-Sail to {cud with ; happy for them the Wind was at Weft and by. North, for had it been Eafterly, they muft have infallibly perifh’d ‘upon the Coaft. The Storm encreafed towards Night, and not only put them by all Sail, but obliged the Whidew to bring her Yards aport- Yand, arid all ‘they could do with Tackles to the Goole Neck of the Tillét, four Men in the Gun Room, and! two at the Wheel, was to keep her Head to the Séa; for had fhe once broach’d to, they muft infallibly have founder’d. ‘The Heavens, in the mean: while, were’ coverd with Sheets of Lightning, which the Sea by the Agitation of the faline Particles feem’d to imitate ; the Darknefs of the Night was fuch, as the Scripture fays, as might be felt; the terrible hollow roaring of the Winds, cou’d be’ only’ equalled by the répeated, J may fay, inceffant Claps of Thunder, fufficient to fivike a Dread of the fupream Being, who com- mands the Sea and the Winds, one would imagine in every Heart; but among thefe Wretches, ‘the Effect was different, for they endeavoured by their Blafplemies, Oaths, and «horrid ‘Imptecations, to drown the Uproar of jarring Elements. Bellamy fworé he was forry he could not’ run out his Guns to return the’ Salute, meaning ‘the Thunder, that he fancied the Godsthad got drunk over their _ ‘Fipple, and were gone together by the re n cs tee ey Of Capt: BELLAMY, 219 They continued feudding all that Night under their bare Poles, the next Morning the Main-Maf be- ing {prung in the Step, they were forced to cut it away, and, at the fame time, the Mizzen came by the Board. Thefe Misfortunes made the Ship ‘ng with Blafphemy, which was encreafed, when, by trying the Pumps, they found the Ship made a great Deal of Water; tho’ by continually ply. ing them, it kept it from gaining upon them: The. Sloop as well as the Ship, was left to the Mercy Of the Winds, tho” the former, not having a Tant- Maft, did not lofe it. The Wind fhifting round the Compafs, made fo outrageous and fhort a Sea, that they had little Hopes of Safety ; it broke “pon the Poop, drove in the Taveril, and wath’d the two Men away from ‘the Wheel, who were faved in the Netting. The Wind after four Days and three Nights abated of its Fury, and fixed in the North, North Eaft Point, hourly decreafing, and the Weather clearing up, {0 that they {poke ‘© the Sloop, and refolv’d for the Coaft of Carolina 3 _ they continued this Courfe but a Day anda Night, When theWind coming about tothe Southward,they changed their Refolution to that of going to Rhode Mand. AN this while the Whidaw’s Leak Conti- ued, and it was as much as the Lee-Pump could: do to keep the Water from gaining, tho’ it was kept continually going. Jury-Mafts were fet up, and the Carpenter finding the Leak to be in the Bows, occafioned by the Oakam {pewing out of a Seam, the Crew became very jovial again, the Sloop received no other Damage than the Lofsofthe Main-Sail, which the firft Flurry tore away from the Boom. In their Cruife off Rhude Ilana, Teg, sinning of April, they took a Sloop commanted Capt. Beer, belonging to Boffon, in the Lat. of Scurh Carolina, 40 Leagues from Land; they put the hid Captain on Board the Whidam Commodore, - 2S while ee ee eh eet 220 Of Capt. BELLAMY. while they rifled and plundered.his Veflel, which Williams. and. Bellamy propofed returning to him, but the Crews being averfe to it,.they funk her, and ‘put the Captain: athore upon . Block. Ifland. ~. L can’t pals by in Silence,Capt.Bellamy’s Speech to Capt. Beer. D—un my Bl——d, fays hey I ‘am. forry they won't let you have your Sloop again, for J fcarn-to do any one a Mifchief, shen it is not for. my Advantage 3 damn the Soop, me muff fink her, ‘and. fhe: might be of “fe to you. The, dame ye, you. are a. fueaking Puppy, and fo are all thofe who will fubsmit to be governed. by, Laws which rich Men ‘have made for their own Securitys Sor the comardly Whelps have not the Courage otherwife. to, defend what rhey ect by their Knavery; but damn ye alto-, gether: Damn them for a Pack of crafty Rafcals, . and. Jou, who ferve them, for a Parcel of hen-hearted Num=- shuls. They villify. us, the Scoundrels do, when. there is only this Difference, they rob the Poor under the Cover. of Law, forfooth, and we. plunder the Rich under the Protettion of our. own Courage; had you. not better make. One of us, than fueak after the A—s of th fe Villains for Employment ? Capt, Beer told, him, that: his Con- fcience would: not. allow him to break thro’ the Laws.of God and Man. You are a devilifh Confeience, Rafcal, d—an ye, replied Bellamy, I am a free Princes and I have as much Authority to make War on the whole. World, as he who has a hundred. Sail of Ships: at Seay andan' Army of 100,000 Men in the Field; and this miy Confcience tells me; but there is no arguing. with fuch. Sniveling Puppies, who allow Superiors to kick them about Deck at’ Pleafure, and pin their Faith upon, a Pimp of a, Parfon'; a Squab, who neither prattices nor believes what be puts upon the chuckle-headed Fools he preaches to-—+ The Pyrates wanting neither. Provifion nor Water,, andathe Whidaw’s Damage being repaired, ‘they paft. their'Time very joyially. One of.the Crew had. been’a Stroler, a Fellow who had. pafs’d ‘thro’ a. great many real as well as fittitious Scenes of Life, « Faholor motel. Be Titans Fe ane Of Capt. BELL AMY. 42% the ftroling Bufine{s not anfwering the-Greatnefs of his Soul (as he expreffed it) he thought it more profitable, and lefs fatiguing, to turn Collector. Ac- cordingly ‘in’ York{hire’ he borrowed an excellent Gelding, (I make Ufe of his own Terms) with a hunting Saddle and Bridle, and with a Cafe of Pocket Piftols,> which he before had, he fet out to feek Adventures, without taking Leave of his Company ; he met, he faid, with feveral Knights ‘Ersant, whom as‘they declined the'Combat, he fpoiled and fent to offer themfelves at the Feet of his Dulcinea, but being under the Influence of fome _ malicious Enchanter, who envied his glorious Feats of Arms, and fear’d they would: eclipfe by the | Brightnefs of their Luftre, thofe of fome favourite Knight whom he protected ; or otherwife, know ing by his Skill, that he fhould one Day fuccumb under the Weight of his irrefiftable Arm, by his magical Power, threw him into a loathfome Dun- geon loaded with Irons, whence the wife Man, who had'Care of his Affairs, and was deftined to write the Hiftory of his heroick Deeds delivered, and putting him on board a Ship, tranfported him to the famous Ifland of Famaica; and after various Turns of Fortune, link’d him in Society with thefe Marine Heroes, the Scourge of Tyrants and Ava- tice, and the brave Afferters of Liberty. | This whimfical Fellow made a Play whilft he was on Board, which he called the Royal Py- rate; and this (which to fee once would make a’ a Cynick laugh) was. acted on the Quarter-Deck With great Applaufe, both of the Actors and Poet 5. but an Accident which turn’d the Farce into Tra- gedy, occafio.ed an Order of Council to forbid | its being play’d a fecond Time. The: Cafe was” thus ; Alexander the Great, environ’d by his Guards, » Was examining a Pyrate who was brought before him; The Gunner, who was drunk, took this ip Se a A) Le OWS WB ae - tes Wes SPANHA QP ANHA Db A ait Ale) 924 Of Capt. BERLE AMT, be in earneft, and that his Mefs-Mate was in Dari ger, and hearing Alexander fay, ! f Know’ ft thou that Death attends thy mighty Critnes; Aud thou thal?’ hang to Morrow Morn betimes. Swore by G-——d he’d try that, and running into the Gun Room where he ‘left. three Companions over a Bowl of Rum Punch as drunk as himfelfy told them, they were going to hang. honeft Yack Spinckes, and if they fuffered it, they fhould be all hang’d one after:another, but by G-——d, they fhould not hang him, for he’d clear the Decks ; and taking a Grenade with: a lighted Match, followed by his Comrades with their Cutlath, he fer Fire t@ the Fuze and threw it among the Actors, Thé Audience was on; the Gang Ways and Poop, and falling in. with’ their Cutlath, poor Alexander had his left Arm: cut off, and: Yack Spinckes his Leg broke with the burfting of the’ Shell: The Ship was im-' mediately in an Uproar, and)the Aggreflors feiz’d, who elfe would have made Havock with the uards, or have been cut to Pieces by them; for they -had all Cutlathes. Alexander the Great re- venged the Lofs of his Arm-by the Death of him who deprived him of his Limb. The Gunner and two furviving Comrades: were:that Night clapp’d into Irons, and the next Day. at ‘a-Court-Marihal, _ not only acquitted: but applauded ‘for their. Zeals Alexander and his Enemies weré reconciled, and the Play forbad any more ‘to be-acted, Sie A Fortnight after the fetting Capt. Beér athores Williams. boarded and took a Weflel off Cape Cod laden with’ Wine; the Crew of which encreafed the Number, of their Prifoners :. They put feven Men on Board the Prize; with Orders'to keep Cori4 pany with the Ship and Stoop, commanded by ne Oar arly ok Boblamg. Of Capt. BELL AMY. 233. | Bellamy and Williams, and eft aboard her the Mafter. : aS the Ship and Sloop had been long off the Carreen, they ftretch’d away to the Northward, and made the beft of their Way to Penobjcott River, Ch lies between Neva Scotia and the Province of Main, where they defigned to heave down. This Tra of Land is along the Coaft about 190 Miles from Weft to Eaft, reckoning from the Province of Main to St. Croix; and about 200 Miles over from North to South, counting from the River Quebeck to the Sea. King Charles the Second made a Grant of it in 1663, to his Royal Highnefs James Duke of York, who made a Settlement at Pemaquid; it abounds in all Sorts of Timber, and would bear excellent Hemp ang ria al a a of Naval Stores; is rich in Copper, Lead, Tron Ore; and the Seas are ftock’d with Whales, Cod, Sturgeon, Herrings,Mackrel, Salmon, Oyfters, Cockles, Gc. the Soil produces all Sort of Eure- peat Grain and Fruits; and the Woods fhelter a great Number of Deer, as Elks, Re and Fallow Deer, @c. and this Country, if fettled, would Ste tainly be of great Advantage to England. Thope i Reader will pardon this {mall Digreflion which the Intereft I take inevery Thing, which may tend to the enriching or extending the Dominions of out glorious Britain, my dearly loyed Country, force me into: But to return, when they were at the Mouth of this River, it was thought more eligible to careen in the River Adechiffes ; they entered fe as agreed, and run up about two Miles and a half, when they came to an Anchor, with their Prizes. The next Morning all the Prifoners were fet ke fhore with Drivers, and Orders to ailift in t e. building’ Huts; the Guns were alfo fet zineres ‘and a Breaft Work raifed, with Bib Eaae ss or the Canon on each Side the River, this too eae 234 Of Capt. BELLAMY, | four Days: A Magazine was dug deep in the Earth, and a Roof rais’d over’ it -by the poor Slaves the Prifoners, whom they treated after the fame Manner as the Negroes are ufed by the Weft-India Planters. The Powder. being fecured, and every. Thing out, they hove down the Sloop, cleaned her, and when fhe had all in again, they careened the Whidaw, by the largeft Prize. Here the Stroler told the two Commanders, that they might lay the Foundation of a new Kingdom, which, in time, might fubjec&t the World, and ex- tend-its Conquefts beyond thofe of the Roman Em- pire. J am, it is true, faid he, by Birth, the Son of a Miller, bit I have Ambition, Avarice, and Learning enough, to be a Secretary of State, for I was a Servitor at Ox‘ord before I turn’d Stroler 5 and if you think fit to eet this Tratt of Land into an Empire, ana your joint Imperial Adajefties will employ my Abilities, don’t queftion but Iwill prove a truePatriot 5 that is, by the Fi- gure I will make, I will be a Credit to your Court, and by the fqueexing your Subjetts (whom under the fpecious Pre- tence of Liberty, I will keep in abjett Slavery) drain fuch Sums as fhall ever keep them poor,and your and my Treafury full. Rome, the Miftrefs of the World, was founded by @ couple.of.Sheep-Stealers, and peopled by run-amay Slaves and infolvent Debtors ; how much more advantageoully might you two undertake the ereéting of a new Monarchy, whofe Subjects are no Strangers to the Art of War, who are not environ’d as they were with invidious Neighbours, and who may encreafe your Power, and propagate the Species, by taking into your Protection the Indians of thefe Parts, and the difcontented and defperate People of the neighbour- © ing Englith and French Colonies? To ftrengthen your felves, vaife every. ufeful Aan to fome Dignity in the State, and fhare the Prifoners (I mean [uch as won't fwear Allegiance) as fo many Slaves unworthy of Liberty. among your great Men 5 build more Veffels, keep them con ftantly on the Cruize, and force all the Prifoners exther by fain or foul fe Of Capt. BELLAMY. 223 foul to acknowledge your Sovereignty ; it was thus the Sreateft Empires of the World were founded , fuperior Force was always acknowledged a juft Title, and the Aicients ever efteem’d the Prifoners they made, whofe Lives were in their Power by the Law of Arms, lam= | ful Slaves 5 and the employing their Lives in the Ser- vice of the Conqueror, but a grateful Retribution for Preferving of them. I leave it to the mature Delibe- vation of your great Wifdom, whether it is not more eligible to found here an Empire, and make War by a@ lawful Authority derived from your Royal felves, than \ le under the opprobrions Appellations of Robbers, Thieves — . Profligate Rogues and Pyrates for begging Pardon of Your Majefties, for that Freedom of Speech, which my Zeal, for your Royal Service, and the publick Good oblige me to; the World treats you and your loyal Subjetts with no fofter Terms. But, when you have onté de- clared your felves lawful Monarchs, and that you have Strength enough to defend your Title, all the Univerfi- ties in the World will declare you have a Right Jure Divino; and the Kings and Princes of the Earth, wilt fend their Ambaffadors to court your Alliance. e Bellamy and Williams told him, They would con- fider on his Propofal, and they would let him know what they fhould in their great Wifdom conclude upon In the mean while, they thank’d him for his Advice, promis'd when they began to found their Monarchy, (fhould they find it expedient,) to make him Prime Minifter, ot Quarter-Mafter afhore; and when he had enriched him= Self and Family, by the fleecing their Subjetts, they af- Sired him they would pafs an A of Indemnity for his Security; and concluded with ordering a Bow! of Punch for every Mefs. = The Whidaw being clean’d, they thought of _ Sruizing again, and accordingly fteer’d for Fortunes Ba in Newfoundland; they made fome Prizes on — the Banks, forced all the’ Men, and funk the pWelfelss log ulld ou i coe ee wi. I. P They 226 Of Capt. BELLAMY. 2 They had not been long on this Coaft before they were feparated by a Storm, which held fome_ Days. Off the Ifland of St. Paul. the Whidaw {pied. a Sail, which fhe immediately gave Chafe to; the Ship brought to and lay, by for her, fhe provd a French Man of 36 Guns, carrying Soldiers ‘to Quebeck. The Whidaw engag’d with great Refolu- tion, and the French did not fhew lefs, for he boarded the Whidaw, and was twice put off, with the Lofs of Men on both Sides. Bellamy after two Hours Engagement thought the Frenchman too hard a Match, and was for fhaking him off; but his Enemy was not as willing to part with him, for he gave Chafe, aud as he fail’d altogether .as well as Bellamy, the latter had certainly been ta- ken and had received the due Punifhment of his Crimes, had not the Night coming on fayour’d his Efcape: He loft in this Engagement 36 Hands, befide feveral wounded, the poor Minifter of State, our before-mentioned Stroller, was in the Number ef the flain. The Widaw returned to the Coaft of Newfound- land; and off Placentia Bay met with his Confort and the Prize. They refolved to vifit again the Coaft of Wew England, the Whidaw being much fhatter’d in the late Engagement, having receiv’d a great many Shot in her Hull; they ran down this. Coaft, and between St. George’s Banks and Nantukets Shoals, took the Afary Aune. The Mafter of the Veffel, taken formerly off | Cape Cod, was left on board her, and as he was “very well acquainted with the Coait, they order’d him to carry the Light and go a-head; and the Pyrates commonly kept him at Helm: He up- on a Night of publick Rejoicing, feeing all the _Pyrates drunk, laid hold on the Opportunity, and run his Veffel athore about Midnight, nese: oe and Sy Of Capt. BELLAMY: 52g Land of Eafham, out of which he alone efcap’d With Life. The Whidaw fteering after the Lighr, Met with the fame Fate ; the {mall Veffel ran in- to a fandy Bay, and the Men got afhoré without. Difficulty. : : ’ When the Whidaw ftruck, the Pyrates murder’d all their Prifoners, that is, all their forced Men; as it is concluded, from the mangled Carcaifes _ Which were wafh’d afhore ; but not a Soul ef- eed out of her or William’s, who was alfo oft. 4 ts The Pyrates, to the Number of feven who ef: _ Caped, were feiz’d by the Inhabitants, and on the Information of the Mafter who efcap’d, and on their own Confeffion, were imptifon’d, condemn’d, and executed. They were all Foreigners, very 38norant and obftinate,; but by the indefati- fable Pains of a pious and learned Divine, who €onftantly attended them, they were, at length, by the {pecial Grace of God, made fenfible of, and truly ‘penitent, for the enormous Crimes they had been guilty of. As the Trial of thefe Py- rates, and their Behaviour while under Sentence, and at the Place of Execution,was printed at Boffon, and is to be had in Town, I fhall refer the curious Reader: to that fmall Trat. OF Captain William Fy, And his Crew. S to the Birth of this Pyrate, we can dif cover nothing by the Enquiries we have hitherto made ; and, indeed, had we fuc- ceeded in our Search, could it have been of ‘any great Confequence ? For, its certain, by the Beha- viour of the Man, he muft have been of very ob- | {cure Parents; and, by his Education, (as he was no Artift) very unfit, in all Refpects, except that of Cruelty, for the villainous Bufinefs he was in. We have been inform’d, that he had been a Py- rate in a private Capacity, and having efeaped Juftice, had an Opportunity of repenting his for- mer Crimes, and, as a foremaft Man, or petty Officer, of getting his Bread in a warrantable Way: But nos ignorant as he was of Letters he was ambitious of Power, and capable of thé. moft barbarous Actions to acquire it. Captain Green Of Briftol, in April 1726, fhipp’4 this Fly as Boatfwain, at famaica, being bound, 1% the Elizabeth Snow of Brifol, for the Coaft of Guintes Of Capt. WILLIAM Fir. 229 Guinea. Fly, who had infinuated himfelf with fome ‘ ef the Men, whom he found ripe for any Villainy, refolyed to feize the faid Snow, and murder the Captain and Mate, and, taking the Command on himfelf, turn Pyrate. He propofed this his Defign to his Brothers in Iniquity, who approving it, he, having the Watch at one o° Clock in the Morn- ing, on the 27th Day of AfZz, went up to one Morrice Cundon, then at the Helm, accompanied by Alexander Mitchel, Henry Hill, Samuel Cole, Tho- mas Winthrop, and other Confpirators, and- {wore damn him, if he fpoke one Word, or ftirr’d either Hand or Foot, he would blow his Brains out; and, tucking up his Shirt above his Elbow, with a Cutlafs in his Hand, he, with Afitchel, went in-. to the Captain’s Cabbin, and told him, he muft turn out. The Captain asking what was the Mat- ter, was anfwered, by A/Zitchel, they had no Time to anfwer impertinent Queftions; that if he would turn out, and go upon Deck quietly, it would fave. em the Trouble of fcraping the Cabbin; if he would not, a few Buckets of Water and a Scraper would take his Blood out of the Decks. That they had chofen Captain Fly for Commander, and damn his Blood, they would allow of no other, and oe not wafte their Provifions to feed ufelefs en. The Captain reply’d, that fince they had fo refolyed he fhould make no Refiftance , but beg- ed they, would not murder him, fince his living could be no Obftacle to their Defigns; that he had never been harfh to either of them, and there- _ fore they could not kill him out of revenge ; and if it was only for their Security, he defired, if they would not take his Word to do nothing to obftruct the Meafures they had refolved on, they would fecure him in Irons till he might be put fomewhere on Shore. Ay, G—dd—mn ye, fays : P 3 Fly, eso || Of Capt. VILLIAM FLY, _ Fly, to live and hang us, if we are ever taken: No,-no, walk up and be damn’d, that Bite won't” take, it has hanged many an honeft Fellow al- ready. Aditchel and Fly then laying hold of him, pulled him out of his Bed. The poor Captain intreating to fpare his Life, for his Soul’s fake, told’em he would bind himfelf down by the moft folemn Oaths, never to appear againft them ; that he was unfit to appear before the Judgment-Seat of a juft and pure God; that he was loaded with Sins, and to take him off before he had wathed thofe Stains which fullied his Soul by the Tears of Repentance, would be a Cruelty beyond Comparifon greater than that of depriving him of Life, were he prepared for Death, fince it’ would be, without any Offence committed againft them, dooming him to eternal Mifery ; however, if they would not be perfwaded that his Life was confifient with their Safety, he begg’d they would allow him fome Time to prepare himfelf for the great Change. That he begg’d no other Mercy than what the Juftice and Compaffion of the Laws would allow them, fhould they hereafter be ta- ken. D—wa your Blood, faid Mitchel, no Preaching. Be damnd.an you will, what?s that to us 2 Let him look out who bas the Watch. Upon Leck, you Dog, for we fhall lofe no more Time about you. phe sears “They haw!'d him into the Steerage, and fore’d him upon Deck, where one of the Hell-Hounds asked if he had rather take a Leap like a brave _ Fellow, or be to tofs'd over like a fneaking Raf- _ceal. The Captain, addreffing himfelf to Fly, faid, Boat{wain, for God's fake don’t throw. mye cverboard, if ~ you do, I am for ever loft ; Hell's the Portion of my Crimes. ——-— Damn him anfwer’d Flys fince he’s fo devilifh godly, well give him Time to fay his Prayers, and I'l) be Parfon. Say after me. Lord, have Adergy om yee. . Short Prayers are = 2 we , aw sts oF 4 beft , _ Of Capt. WILLIAM FLY. 231 pet fo no more Words, and over with him, my Lads, Lik ana nee : The Captain ftill cry’d for Mercy, and begg’d an Hour’s refpite only, but allin vain; he was feized by the Villains, and thrown over Board ; catch’d however, and hung by the Main-Sheet, which Winthorp teeing, fetch’d the Coopex’s broad Ax, and chopping off the unhappy Mafter’s Hand, he was fwallowed up by the Sea. 2S Past he Captain being thus difpatched, Thomas Fen- - kins, the Mate, was fecured and brought upon Deck, to fhare the fame cruel Fate. His Intrea- ties were as ufelefs as the Captain’s; the Sen- tence. they. had paffed upon him was not to be teverfed; they were deaf to his Prayers and Re- monftrances, Strangers to Humanity and Compat- fion. He was of the Captain’s Mels, they faid, and they fhould e’en drink together ; it was Pity to part good Company. _ Thus they jefted with his Agonies; he, how- ever, made fome Struggle, which irritating his Murderers, one of them fnatched up the Ax, with Which Winthorp had lopped off the Captain’s Hand, and gave him a great Cut on the Shoulder, by mif- fing his Head, where the Blow was aimed, and he Was thrown into the Sea. He fwam notwithftand- ing, and called out to the Doétor to throw him a Rope, who, poor Man, could not hear him, being fecured, and laid introns in his own Cabin; and had he heard, and been able to have thrown the Rope required, could it be expfted that thefe har- den’d Wretches would have relented, and fhewn him Mercy ? But, the finking Man will catch at a Straw, and Hope, they. fay, is the laft that de- fertsus. While we have Life we are apt to flat- fer our felves, fome lucky Accident may fa, Your us, i. ree 232 «= Of Capt. WILLIAM FLY. It was next debated what fhould be done with the Doétor. Some were for fending him to look after the Captain and Mate, but the Majority, as he was a ufeful Man, thought it better to keep him. All Obftacles being removed, A“itchel falu- ' ted Fly Captain, and, with the reft of the Crew who had been in the Confpiracy, with fome Ce- remony, gave him Poffeffion of the great Cabin. Here a Bowl of Punch being made, Aforice Cun- don was called down, and one Yohn Fitzherbert fet to the Helm in his Place. At the fame Time the Carpenter and Thomas Streaton were brought be- fore the Captain, who told them they were three Rafcals, and richly deferved to be fent after the Captain and Mate, but that they were willing to to fhew them Mercy, and not put them. to Death in cold Blood, and he would therefore only put them in Irons, for theSecurity of the Ship’s Crew; they were accordingly ordered out, and iron’d. Fly then told his Comrades it was convenient to — yefolve on fome Courfe, when Word was brought them, that a Ship was very near them. The Council broke up, and made a clear Ship,when, in a very little whileafter, they found it was the Pompey, which hadWleft Jamaica in‘ Company with the Snow ; the Pompey ftanding for the Snow, which did not make from her, foon haled, and asked how Captain Green did, and was anfwered by Flys that he was very well. They did not think it to attack this Ship, but returning to hold their Confultation, it was refolyed to fteer for North Earolina. : Upon their Arrival on that Coaft they fpied a Sloop at Anchor within the Bar ; fhe was call’d the Soha and Hannah, and commanded ‘by Captain Ful- fer, who thinking the Snow might want a Pilot fiepp’d into his Boat with his Mate, Mr. Arkin few, amd Mr. Roan, two Paffengers, and a er + 2 Of Capt WILLIAM FLY; 238 Lad, in order to bring her in. When they ,came on board, they were told, that the Snow was come with a Cargoe from Yamaica, Captain Fylker and Mr. Roan were defired to walk down to the Captain, who was in the Cabbin; Fly received them very civilly, ordered a Bowl of Punch, and hearing Captain Fulker had brought another Paf- fenger on Board, Mr. Atkinfon was alfo invited down. ' The Punch being brought in, Captain Fly told his Gueft, that he mas no Man to mince Matters 5 that he and his Comrades were Gentlemen of Fortune, and fhould mike bold to try if Captain Fulker’s Sloop was a better Sailor than the Snow, if fle was, fhe would prove much fitter for their Bufine{s, and they muft have her: The Snom came to an Anchor about a League off the Sloop, and Fly ordered Fulker, with fix of his own’ Hands, into the Boat, to bring her alongfide of the Snow; but the Wind proving contrary, their Endeavours proved alfo vain, and they returned again in the Boat, bringing Captain Fulker back with them. As foon as they came on board the Szow, Fly fell into a violent Paffion, curfing and damning Fulker for not bringing off the Sloop; he gave him “his Reafon, and faid, it was impofible. Damn ye, replied the Pyrate, you lie you Dog, but d—n my B——d, your Hide “fhall pay for your Roguery, and if I can’t bring her off Pl burn’ her ber where fhe lies. He then order’d Captain Fulker to the Geers; no Reafon, no Arguments, could prevail ; he was ftripp’d and lath’d after a Yery inhuman Manner: And the Boat’s Crew be- ing fent again, with much ado carried her off as far as the Barr, where fhe bilged and funk, The Pyrates then endeavoured to fet what re-- Mained of her out of Water on Fir e, but they could not burn her. ~~ 234 Of Capt. WILLIAM FLY. The Snow getting under, Sail to look out for fome Booty, Fulker and the others defired they might be fet at Liberty, but it was de- nied them for the prefent, tho’ not without a Pro- mife that they fhould be releafed the firft Veifet they took. The fifth of Sune they left Carolina, and the next Day they fpied a Sail, which prov'd the Fohn and Betty, commanded by Capt. Gale, bound from Barbadoes to Guiney. Fly gave Chafe, but finding the Ship wronged him, he made a Signal of Diftrefs, hoifting his Jack at the. main Top-Maft Head; but this Decoy did not hinder the Ship making the beft of her Way. Fly con- tinued the Chace all Night, and the Wind flack- ening, he came within Shot of the Ship, and fir’d feveral Guns at her under his black Enfign; the Ship being of no Force, and the Pyrates ready to board, the Captain ftruck ; and Fly manning his - Long-Boat, which carried a Pateraro in the Bow, the Crew being well armed with Piftols and Cut- lathes went on Board the Prize, and fent Capt. Gale, after having fecuzed his Men, Prifoner on board the Szom. This Prize was of little Value to the Py- ; rates, who took nothing but fome ‘Sail-Cloaths and {mall Arms, and after two Days let her go, but took away fix of his Men, fetting on board Capt. Fulker and a Paffenger (Mr. Athin- fon was detained) and Capt. Green’s Surgeon ; they kept this Gestleman, Mr. Atkinfon, knowing he was a good Artift, and lately Mafter of the Bo- neta Brigantine, as a Pilot for the Coaft of New England, which they were fatisfied he was well acquainted with. Upon Mr. Arkinfon’s defiring to have his Liber-- ty with the others, Captain Fly made him the following Speech: Look ye, Captain Atkinfon, it és en Rta : nat Of Capt. WILLIAM FLY. 235 ——d for your Company, G-— a nye; G—d a 2a my Soul, ei 5 bG a, and that’s fair; but G Ad—23, “ye, and G—d’s B—d and W——ds, if you don’t ait like an honeft Man G»——d d———n ye, and offer tq play us any Rogues Tricks by G d, and G—d fink ‘me, but Ill blow your Brains outy G—d d—ax me, if 1 don't. Now, Capt. Atkinfon, you may do as you pleafe, you may be a Son of aWhore and pilot us wrong, ~which, G d d---n ye, would be a rafcally Trick by G--d, becaufe you would betray Men who truft in you but, by the eternal J———s, you fhan’t live to fee a hang’d. I don’t love many Words, G—d d——n ye, if jou bave a Mind to be well ufed you fhall, patg, B— ds but if you will be aVillain and betray your Truft, may G—d ftrike me dead, and may I drink a vot that we cave a “Bowl of Brimftone and Fire with the D——I, if I don’t “fend you head-long to H—ll, G——d d——n me; and fo there necds no more Arguments by G—d, for ve. told you my Mind, and here’s all the Ships Crew for Witneffes, that if I do blow your Brains out, you may blame no Body but your felf, G—d d—an ye. Mr. Atkinfon anfwered, it was very hard he “fhould be forced to take upon him the Pilotage, ~when he did not pretend to know the Coatt, and _ that:his Life fhould anfwer for any Miftake his ‘Ignorance of the Coaft might make him guilty of, and therefore begg’d he might be fet on board Capt. Gale; and that they would truft to their “own Knowledge, fince he did not doubt there be- “ing better Artifts on Board. Wo, No, replied Fly, that won't do by G: d, your palavring won't fave your Bacon. Muchas palabras no valen nada, as the ‘Spaniards fay fo either difcharge your Truf? like an hone? Man, for go you fhan's by G—d, or Til fend ‘you with my Service to the D——1; fo ne more Words, » G==-d d——n ye, ou Taciatneas There 236 86 Of Capt. WILLIAM FLY, There was no Reply made, and they ftood for _ the Coat of New England; off Delaware’s Bay they made a Sloop, commanded by one Harris; bound from New York to Penfilvania: She had on Board about fifty Paffengers; Fly gave Chafe, and come ing up with her, hoifted his black Enfign, and _ ordered her to ftrike, which the immediately did ; and Fly fent Capt. Arkinfon on Board with three of his Hands, to fail her, tho’ he would not al- - low him, (Atkinfon) any Arms: They, the Pyrates, ranfack’d this Prize, but not finding her of any Ufe to them, after a Detention of 24 Hours, they let her go, with her Men, excepting only a well made young Fellow, whofe Name was James Benbrooke, whom they kept. Fly, after having releas’d the Prize, ordered Cap- tain Atkinfon to carry the Sow into Martha’s Vine- yard, but, he willfully mifs'd this Place. Fly find- ing himfelf beyond Naztuckets, and that his De- fign was baulk’d, called to Atkinfon, and told him, he was a rafcally Son of an envenom’d Bitch, and d—-n his Blood it was a Piece of Cruelty to let fuch a Son of a Whore live, who defign’d the Death of fo many boneft: Fellows. Atkinfon, in his Defence faid, he ne- ver pretended to know the Coaft, and that it was every hard he fhould die for being thought an ‘abler Man than he really was; had he pretended to be their Pilot, and did not know. his Bufinefs, he deferved Punifhment ; but when he was fore’d upon a Bufinefs which he before declared he did ‘not underftand, it: would be certainly cruel to make him fuifer for their Miftake—— G—~d d—n ye, replied Fly, you are an obftinate Villain, and your Defign is to hang uss buts B—-d and W-—ds you Dog, you fhan’t live to fee it, and faying. this, he ran into his Cabbin and fetch’d a Piftol with Defign to fhoot Arkinfon , but by the Enter pose > a Ble ani eS REN Of Capt. WILLIAM FLY. 237 of Mitchell, who thought him innocent of any Des fign, he efcaped. ri Atkinfon, who perceived his Life every Minute in Danger, began to ingratiate himfelf with the Pyrates, and gave them Hopes, that with good and gentle Ufage, he might be brought to join them; this he did not fay in exprefs Terms, but by Words he now and then let drop, as by Accident: They were not a little rejoiced at the View of having fo good an Artift to join them; nay, fome of them hinted to him, that if he would take upon him the Command, they were ready to difpoffefs Capt. Fly, who carried his Command too high, and was known to all the Crew to be no Artift, and to underftand nothing beyond the Bu- finefs of a Boatfwain. Atkinfon thought it his In- tereft to keep them in the Opinion that he would Join ; but always declined hearing any Thing as to the Command... This made him lefs feverely us’d, and protected him from the Infults of Fly, who imagined he would betray them the firft Opportunity, and therefore more than once propofed his being. thrown over Board, which was never approved by the Snow's Company. : From Nantuket they ftood to the Eaftward, and Off Brown’s Bank made a Fifhing Schooner. Fly coming up with her fired a Gun, and hoifting his black Enfign, fwore, d--n his Blood, if they did not tnftantly bring to, and fend their Boat on Board, he twould fink ber: The Schooner obeyed, and fent a- “Way her Boat on Board the Sow; he examined the Captain what Veffels were to be met with, and promifed, if he could put him in the Way of Meeting with a good Sailor, to let him go, and Bive him his Veffel, or he fhould otherwife keep ber: The poor Man told him, he had a Compa- : TOR \ 2380 Of Capt. WILLT AM FLY. nion which would foon be in Sight, and was 4 much better Veffel 7, accordingly about 12 at Noon the fame Day, which was the 23d of June, the other Schooner hove in Sight; ‘upon which, Fly mann’d this Prize.with fix Pyrates, and a Prifoner nam’d George Tasker, and {ent her in Chafe, ha- ving himfelf on Board the Snow, no more than three Pyrates, Captain Atkinfon, (who had work’d himfelf into fome Favour with him) and fifteen forced Men ; but he took Care to have his’ Armé upon Deck by him. ct The Men who had not taken on with Fly, were, Atkinfon, Capt. Fulker’s Mate, and two Youths belonging to him; the Carpenter and Gunner be- Jonging formerly to Captain Green; fix of Captain Gate’s Men, and the aforefaid Benbrooke, who be» longed to Captain Harris, with three of the Men out of the Schooner. Atkinfon feeing the Prifoners and forced Men were five to one of the Pyrates, thought of delivering himfelf from the Bondage he was in; and, as by good Luck, feveral other Fifhing Veflels hove in Sight, right a-head of the Snow, he call’d to Captain Fly, and told him, he {pied feveral other Veffels a-head, defiring, he would come forward and bring his Glafs; Fly did fo, and leaving his Arms on the Quarter-Deck, fat him on the Windlafs to fee if he could make what they were. Arkinfon, who had concerted his Meafures, with one Walker and the above-mention’d Benbrook, fecured the Arms on the Quarter-Deck, aid gave them a Signal to feize Fly, which they did, with very little Trouble, and after made themfelves Mafters of the other three Pyrates and the Snow; the reft of the Prifoners, not knowing any Thing of, or what the Defign might be, re- maining altogether inattive, and brought the Syow and Pyrates to Great Bremfter, where a Guard was puton Board Fune 28, 1726, Soon, Of Capt. WILLIAM FLY. 239 Soon after, the faid Pyrates were brought to their Trial, that is, on the fourth of July following, before the Honourable William Dummer, Efq; Lieu- tenant Governor and Commander in chief, of the Province of Maffachufer’s Bay, Prefident of the fpe- cial Court of Admiralty, held at the Court-houfe Of Boffon, affifted by 18 Gentlemen of the Council, before whom they were found guilty of Murder and Pyracy, condemn’d to be executed, and ae~ cordingly ‘were executed the 12th of July; Fly was _ order’d to be hang’d in Chains at the Entrance of | the Harbour of Boffox. Thus ended the fhort Reign of an obdurate Wretch, who only wanted Skill and Power to be as infamous as any who had {coured the Seas; the Names of the three Pyrates, executed with him, were Samuel Cole, George Condick and Henry Greenvill. Ls ae ae NS 20 F austen Capt. Thomas Howard, And his Crew. E have faid in another Life, viz. White's, _ that he was a Lighterman on the River Thames, his Father was of the Bufinefs, and had the Charaéer of a very honeft Man. Af= ter his Father’s Deceafe, he giew very extrava- gant, and fquander’d away not only what he had left hisSon, but what he had allotted for hisWidow Mother to our Adventurer, whofe Indulgence put- ting every Thing into her Son’s Hands, was fol- low’d by being her felf turn’d out of Doors, for he fold the Houfe over her Head. After having ruin’d himfelf and Mother, his Friends fearing the Wickednefs of his Inclinations would bring a Scan- dal upon them, perfuaded him to g0 to Sea, and procur’d him a Voyage to Jamaica, on board a Merchant Ship. At this [land he ran away from his Ship, and affociating himfelf with fome defpe- rate Fellows, they ftole a Canoe, and went away to the grand Camanas to join fome others of their own Stamp, who lurked thereabouts, with Defign to go on the Account, the Term for Pyrating: They met thofe they look’d for, made up'a Company of - 20 Men, furprized and made themfelves Beas? 7 ~ - Of Capt. Too. How ARD. 34% aby Turtling Sloop, and fet out in Search of : ooty. ‘The fir& Prizes they made were only Turtlers; Which, however, encreas’d the Number of their Crew, fome being willing to join them, others bes ing forced, with Threats of being fet afhore on fome defolate Key. ee Been See . They after fome Tithe cruizing met with an 4rifh Brigantine, who had Provifions and Servants On board. They made an Exchange with the Ma- fer, gave him Provifion to carry him to Jamaicds and allow’d five Hands to go with him; the reft (except the Servants, who readily took on with - the Pyrates) were all: forced. ; Not long after, they furprized a Sloop Which had beech trading on the Spanifi Coatt ; 4s the had 6 Guns, and was a fit Velfel for their Turn, they chang’d her againft the Brigantine: fe= Veral Hands belonging to this Sloop enter’d Voluns tiers, and feveral more were obliged to join them by Compulfion. : Mi Siege After this Capture, they fteer’d for the Coaft of Virginia, and; in their Way, met with a large New England Brigantine, laden with Provifions, bound for Barbadots. This they made Prize of; and thift- | 2g their own Guns on board her, fent the Mafter way in the Sloop; after forcing fome of his Meri With them. They had now a Vélfel of to Guns, and a Crew of 86 Men, of whom one Fames was, Captain, and Howard Quarter-Mafter, While they lay on the Coaft of Virginia, they thade Prize of feveral Ships from England, out of Which they took Men, Liquors, Provifions, Cloaths, 8nd whatever elfe they either liked or thought . ieceffary, As thefe Ships had feveral Felons on board; who Were Tranfports, they had outofthem » ‘Number of Voluntiers, befide forced Men § fo that they hada large Complement. Amiong other Vous iy @ Vit: Eat 242 § Of Capt.THO. How arp. Virginia Ships which fell into their Hands, they made Prize, with little Trouble, of a fine Galley, mounted with 24 Guns, which afforded them a great many Voluntiers, as fhe hada Number of tran{portedMalefattors and Servants on board. They changed their Brigantine for this Ship, and foon after, the Man of War, which waited on this Coatt, heaving in Sight, they thought proper to. take their Departure. eT From the Coatt. of Virginia, they fhap’d their Courfe for that. of Guiney, where they took a great many Ships of different Nations, all which they rifled of what they thought fit: Out of thefe Ships they forced on board a Number. of Men, equal to the Number of thofe formerly compell’d, who defired, and whom they permitted, to be dif- charged, after much Entreaty. After they had been fome Months on the Coaft, they {pied a large three deck’d Portuguefe Ship from Brazil, mounted with 36 Guns; they.gave Chafe and came up with her: The Captain would make no Refiflance, but-his Mate; who was an Englifhman, named Rutland, thinking it Shame to give up fuch a Ship, refoived to defend her ; which the Portu- guefe Captain confented to, but went Punt out of Harm’s Way. Rutland, who had been Maffer of an Englifh Brigantine, taken from him on the fame Coatt by another, Gang of Pyrates, fought them the better Part of a Forenoon, but. the Portugue/é flying the Decks, and only thirty Men, who were Lnglifh, Dutch, and Frenchy Standing by him, he was obliged to ask Quarters, which were given. When the Pyrates came on board, they asked Rutland, if he was Commander? he anfwer’d, No. They en- quired after him, and being told, he was fome- where in the Hold, they fearch’d, and found him hid in the Powder-Room; whence they hawled him up, and whipp’d him round the Deck for his 3 “Lf ’ Cowardice. Of Capt. THO. How Arp. 243 Cowardice. Rutland, and thofe who fought the” Ship, they forced on board, and their Comple- Ment being now 180 Men, they exchanged their Galley for the Portugue/e Ship, carried her in Shore, and ripping off her upper Deck, made her deep Wafted, and much fnugger, by cutting down fome Of her Gunnel. This: Prize they named the Alexander. _ They went down the Coaft in this Ship, and Made feveral Prizes, fome of which they difchar- Sed, and put on board fuch of their forced Men as begg'd their Difcharge; others, they funk, and burnt others ; but forced on board all Care Penters, Cawlkers, Armiorers, Surgeons, and Mu- ficians, In their Way to Czpe Lopez, where they defigned, and afterwards did clean, they found 4 large Briftol Ship at an Anchor, which had lofta Sreat many Men by Sicknef&, and had then but few healthy on board, who got into. the Boat, ‘nd endeavoured to get to Shore, but were preven- ted by the Pyrates: Here they changed fome their Ship; but on a Survey, found the By: ob an too old for their Purpofe, and therefore left ‘erat an Anchor, after they had taken what ‘ More of their for¢ed Men, and did intend to “Bef they thought of Ufe to them ; this Ship belong'd to one Mr. Godly of Briffol. _, They met with nothing elf in their Way to ape Lopez, where they clean’d their Ship, took in AY Wood ‘and Water, and then ftood away to Sea again. _ At their leaving Cape Lopez, they fpied an En- flifh Ship, which they came up with and en- Biged; the Merchant Man made an obftinate De- Nce, and finding the Defign to board, made to Slofe Quarters. Howard arid {even or. eight. more Entered, but the Pyrate’s Boatfwain not having cured his lathing, they féll'a-ftern, and left thele < Q2 : Men S VVEVCEVEUTY 244 Of Capt. THO. HOWARD. Men on board the Merchant-Ship, who feeing themfelves in Danger, hawl’d up the Boat, which the Chace had a-ftern, and, cutting the Rope, got on board the Alexander, which being confidera- bly the larger Ship, and drawing a great deal more Water, ftuck on an unknown Bank, which the Merchant Man went over, and by this lucky Acci- dent efcaped. This obliged the Pyrates to ftart their Wa- ter, and throw over the Wood to get the Ship off, which put ’em under a Neceflity of going back to Cape Lopez to take in thofe Neceffaries. After having a fecond time wooded and water’d, they put again to Sea, fell in with and took two Portu- guefe Brigantines, which they burnt, and fetting the Menon Shoar, they made for, and doubled the Cape of Good Hope, and fhap’d their Courfe for Madagafcar, where to the Northward of, and forty “Mile trom, the Bay of Auguftine, and near a {mail Ifland, they run the Ship on a Reef, where fhe ftuck faft. The Captain being then fick in his Bed, the Men went afhoar on the {mall adjacent Ifland, and carried off a great deal of Provifion and Water _ to lighten the Ship, on board of which none but the Captain, the Quarter-Mafter, and about eleyen more were left. The Quarter-Mafter, who was Howard, with the others, took all the Treafure, and put it on board the Boats, made off for the Main of Madagafcar 5 the Captain, hearing no Body ftir upon’ Deck, made fhift to crawl out of his Cabbin, and feeing em put off, fird the two fore chace Guns at ’em, which alarm’d (to no Purpofe) the Men afhoar ; as the Sea ebb’d, the Ship lay dry, and they could walk to her from the Ifland. She might have been faved had they had the Boats to carry out anAnchor ; but for want of them they brought every Thing afhoar, at Tide of Flood, upon ee t a4 ¥ r s Of Capt. THO, HowaRD. 248 ‘As the Ship’ lay in a quiet Place, they had Op- Portunity to rip her up, and build a Veffel out of her Wreck. The major Part of the Crew being _Englifh and Dutch, who fided together, they forced about 36 Portuguefe and French (thinking the Crew too numerous for their Provifions in their pre- fent Circumftances) to get upon a Raft, and take their Chance with the Sea-Breeze to get to the Mand of Mdadagafear, about 3 Leagues from them, They finith’d a Veflel of 6oTuns, but the Day they defign’d to have launch’d her, a Pyrate Brigantine hove in Sight, who took ’em on bdard. Howard and his Conforts ftood along the Weft- Side of the Ifland, with Defign to round the North End, and to, go to St. Mary’s, but finding the Cur- rent too {trong to ftem, they lay there about a_ Fortnight ; in the Interim they fpied three Sail of tall Ships, which were Men of War under Comma- dore Littleton, (viz. the Anglefea, Haftings and Li- xard,) who had carried a Pardon to the Ifland of St. Aary, accepted of by many of the Pyrates. Thinking thefe might be alfo Pyrates, they made @ Smoak, which brought the Boats afhoar; , but finding they were Men.of Wars Boats, the Pyrates thought fit to abfcond, wherefore finding nothing, nor any Body, the faid Men of War’s Boats re- turm’d, and the Ships kept their Cruife. They had here plenty of Fifh and wild Hogs, which they found in the Wood. . One Day, when Howard was Hunting, his Comrades took the Op- Portunity, went off, rounded the North End, and deft Mr. Howard to provide for himfelf. ‘About four or five and twenty Leagues from the Cape, they went intoa fine Harbour on the Eaft Side, not frequented nay, hardly known to the European Ships. They were here received handfomely, treated and provided with freth Meat, and what Neceffaries they wanted, by the King Q3 of 246° Of Capt. THO. How ARD., of this Diftria&, whofe Name was Mufhmango, wha had formerly beéndriyen from Augu/tine by War, and travelling thro’ the Heart of the Country, had here. fixed his Settlement. When the Boats were vi- éualled, and while Yobafon, who took on him the’ Command after they had deferted Howard, was. Eoats and Booty, and ftood away.to the South- ward, along the Coaft, defigning ‘for St. Afary’s, going every Night into fome Harbour, or coming. to an Anchor under fome Point when the Winds proved ccntrary. Jobnfin- addieifed hitafelf to the King, and told. him the Boat and Goods were his Property 3 up-, on which he went along Shore with a Number of Men, and found the Boat at an Anchor, and all afleep, except. one to look out, at whom the King fired his Blunderbufs, and kil?’d him; the Report. of the Piece awaken’d the others, who cut and flood off the Coaft. The King teturn’d, gave Yohn- fon an Account of his Expedition, and furnith’d him a Canoe, fome Calabathes of frefh W ater, Pro-- vifions and Launces, that he might purfue after his People. Fobnfon kept the Shoar on Board till he came to: the Ifland of St. Afary’s, where he ‘heard his Com- rade Fugitives were gone to, and fettled at_Ambona- voula, in a Village belonging to the Natives on the - River of Aananfallang , leaving his Cance, he went. into one belonging to an Inhabitant, who carried him to his Companions. Sow cy After he had been here fome few Months Fouy- gette, already mentiond in White’s Life, came in with his ship from AZartiaico: With this Veftel they faild to the Wef-Side, and came to an Anchor at ani lfland called Anguawla, 30 Leagues from the Place where they, left Howard. ; Some afhoar with three more, the reft went off with the: Of Capt. THO. Howard. 247 ~ Some of the Subje&ts of the King of Anquawla had before met with, and brought hither, Captain Howard, who feeing the Ship at an Anchor near Shore, haled her, and defired-the Boat might be fent to fetch him off, which’ was accordingly- done, and he joined the reft of the Crew. ., Here two Boys ran away from them, whom they demanded of ‘the ‘King; but he not delivering them, they went afhore by Day-Break, furpriz’d his Town, and brought off 12 of his Concubines, Whom: they detain’d on board, till their Boys, who Were Blacks, were returned, and then delivered them: back. From this Ship he went on board the Speaker, where’ hé ‘continued till fhe was lof on Uauritius, when he came back to’ Madagafcar, and fertled at Aupuftine, here he ftaid till the Prof- Prous, a Ship of 36 Guns, commanded by Captain Fiilliard, came in; which Howard and fome other Pyrates, (with the Affiftance of the Boatfwain and fome. of the Crew: belonging to the Ship) feized. Inthe taking this Ship, the Captain and his chief Mate. were killed, and feveral others wounded. Howard was by the Company declared Captain. Several of the Ship’s Crew took on with them, and ‘they went round the South End to the Eaft Side, til they came the Length of Aaritan, where they found fome of the Speaker’s Company, whom they ‘took on board, and made up their Comple- Ment about 7o Men. > ~ , From hence they fteer’d for the Ifland of St. Mary, where they heel’d their Ship, water’d, Wooded, and fhipp’d fome more Hands: Here they had an Invitation from one Ort Van Tyle, who liv’d onthe Main of A¢adagafear, to come to the Cere- wony of chriftening two of his Children; they were kindly received and treated by him, but it having been reported, that this Ore Van. Tyle had Urdered fome Pyrates, they in Revenge, tho Srbio Q4 they 248 Of Capt. THo. How Ar p> they. had no Certainty of the Fatt, took him Pyi- foner, plunder’d his Houfe, and what Goods they! could not take off in a great Canoe belonging ta him, they threw into the River or burnt. Ort Kan. Tle they defign’d to carry on, board, and hang at: a Yard Arm, but one of the Pyrates help’d him: to efcape, and he took into the. Woods, where meeting fome of his Blacks, he way-laid his Canoa, and Howard's Pinnace by the River Side 5. befides: what Goods they had on board of this Dutchman's, they had feveral Women and Children belongirigy to him, and fome white Men, who had left them under his Care. The Pyrates. fet. the Women to: the Paddles, and the Canoa was over-fet on the Bar 5 Ort Van Tyle fired on the Men, and fhot one. thro’ the Arm and thro’ the Thigh; whom with his Comrade,he took Prifoner,and kept with him: The reft of the Men got afhore on the South-Side the River and efcaped him ; the Women on the North- Side, and returned home. When the Pinnace came down, he fir’d and hot the Captain thro’ the Arm, | but he got on:board, where his Arm was fet. Af- ter this, the Profperous fail’d for Methelage, where i » with a Defign’to go to. the Eaft- ; while he lay here, came in a large Dutch Ship, well mann’d, and. of 40 Guns ; the Profperous was not ftrong enough to attack her, and the’ Dutch fearing he fhould {poil his Trade, would not meddle with Captain Howard, tho’ hard Words pafs’d, and the Dutchmen threatned to fall foul on him if he did not leave the Place, which Howard thought fit to do, and fail’d to Mayotta, i Few Days after the Departure of the Profperous. Captain Bowen, in the Scotch Ship, came in, anchor- ed within {mall Arm-Shot, and tight a-head of the Dutchman, whom he faluted with 11.Guns Shot and all, which the other returned, with 15 after the fame Manner ; Drums beating, and Trumpets ; = founding, Of Capt. THO. HoWARD; _ 249 founding, on both Sides. The Dutchman, however, Was furprized, and under Apprehenfions ; he hal’d the Pyrate, and anfwer ‘was return’d, From the Seas = he then bid: *em fend their Boat on Board, which accordingly went with the Quarter. Mafter, who told the Captain, that they had no Defign on him, but were going againft the AZoors, and: came in for Provifion 3 he replied,they could get none there, and the beft Way was to be gone; however the Quarter-Mafter went afhore (where the ‘Dutch had Made his Fattory, and had fome Goods) and ‘thot down three Oxen, which ‘he ordered the Natives to help to-cut in Pieces ; the Dutchman perceiving’ 4 Friendthip between the Natives and Pyrates,. Reing Bowen full of Men, and hearing two more Pyrates were expected, thought fit to go off in the. Night, and leave the Goods he had put on fhore. © Few Days after Bowen feizing the Goods left; Went for AZayotra, where he join’d the” Profperous, and Jay for the Seafon to go to the Eaft-Indies. Af- ter fome Stay here, their Salt Provifions perifhing, they return’d to Madagascar to revittual, Bowen tov St, Auguftin’s, and Howard (on board of whole Ship Was Captain Whaley, taken as is faid in Bowen’s Life} *O Aerhelage, agreeing to meet at the Ifland of St, Johns, to lie for the Atoors Fleet; where, after ‘ome Difippoints, they met, and got Sight of the Moors Fleet, one of which fell a Prize to Bowen ; but the Profperous being a heavy Sailor, did not ome up with them till they were at an Anchor at the Bar of Surat,where they waited to lighten. The Moors, feeing few Hands on board, for Howard con- Sealed his Men ; and not imagining a Pyrate would venture up, they concluded him an Englifh Eaft- India Man: Howard clapp’d the largeft on board, Which ftood him a {mart Engagement, and killed 'm about 30 Men. At length the Pyrates forced Captain Whaley, who fpoke the Afoors aera 6) 250 © Of Capt. THow How AR D: ‘to go on board and offer Quarter, which they accepted : There was on board this Prize a Noblé=: aman belonging to the Great Asogul, who-had been at Juff2 to:buy Horfes for his Mafter 3. the: Prize yielded them a great Booty, tho” they found but Part of the Money which was. on board, They ine tended to carry her to Aadagafear, but her Bow- {prit being. wounded in the boarding, fhe lof all. her Mafts, wherefore, they fet her a-drift, and fhe. xan afhore at Deman, belonging to. the Portuguefes » From hence he fteer’d to the Malabar Coaft, where: he met Bowen in his Prize, which mounted: 56 Guns ; here.a.Difpute arofe,.as thall be mention’d in the Appendix of Bowen’s Life, both Crews went’ on board Bower, funk the Profperous, and burnt the Scotch Ship, called the Speedy Return: Hence they ftood along the Coaft of India, and Hieward, with about 20 more, landed with what they had, and retired among the Natives, where Award married: a Woman of the Country, and being a morofé ill natur’d Fellow, and ufing her ill, he was omure der’d by her Relations. Captain LEWIS. AndhisCrew Ro HIS worthy Gentleman was an early Py2 ip - fate; we firft find him a Boy on Board the 7 _ _Pyrate Banifter, who was hang’d at the Yard _ mM of a Man of War in fight of Port-Royal in Fa= “iaica, This Lewis and another Boy were taken With him, and brought into the Ifland hanging by | (he Middie at the Mizzen-Peak. He had a great _ 4,Plitude for Languages, and fpoke perfeétly well that of the Atofquill Indians, the French, Spanifh and Englifh, I mention our own, becaufe it is doubted Phether he was French or Englifh, for we cannot "acehim back to his Original. - : ; He failed out of Famaica till he was a lufty Lad, ey was then taken by the Spaniards at the Havana, pacre he ftaid fome Time; but at length he and x more ran away with a {mall Canoe, and furpri- ced Spanifh Periagua, out of which two Men join- @ them, {0 that they were now nine in Compa- “Y: With this Pariagua they fuprized a Turtle- — ing Sloop, and forced fome of the Hands to take oat oR 332 Of Captain LEWIs. on with them, the others they fent away in the Periagua. © 2 He play’d at this fmall: Game, furprifing-and taking Coafters and Turtlers, till with forced Men and Voluntiers he made up a Complement of 40 Men. With thefe he took .a large Pink built Ship, bound from Yamaica to the Bay of Campeachy, and after her feveral others bound to the faid Bay 3 and having Intélligence ‘that there lay in the Bay a fine Bermudas built Brigantine of 10 Guns, com- manded by Captain Tucker, he fent the Captain of. the Pink to him with a Letter, the Purport of which was, that he wanted fuch a, Brigantine, and Gf he would part with her, he would pay him ho- .neftly 1cooo Pieces of Eight ; if he refufed this, he would take Care to lie in his Way, for he was refolved, either. by fair or foul Means, to have the’ Veflel. CaptainTucker having read the Letter, {ent for the Mafters of Veffels then lying.in the Bay, and told\them, after he haddhewn the Letter, that if they would made him up 54 Men (for there were: about 10 Bermudas Sloops) he would go out and: fight the Pyrates. They faid, No, they would not hazard their Men, they depended.on their. Sailing, and every one muft take Care of himfelf as well as he could, Ly 4 ao - However, they all put to Sea together, and fpied a Sail under the Land, which had a Breeze while they lay becalmed; fome faid he was a Turtler, others, the Pyrate, and fo it proved; for it was ho-- ~ neft Captain Lewis, who putting,out his Oars, got in among them. Some of the Sloops, had four Guns; fome two, fome none. Yofeph Dill had two, which he brought on one Side, and fired {martly at the Py- rate, but unfortunately, one of them fplit, and kil- led him three Men. | Tucker called to all the Sloops to fend him Men, and he would fight Lewis, but to no On board a good Of Captain Lewis; 853 ho Purpofe; no Body came on board him: In the méan while a Breeze {prung up, and Tucker trim Ming his Sails left them, who all fell a Prey to the Pyrate; into whom however he fired a Broadfide at Soing off. OneSloop, whofe Mafter I won’t Name, Was a very good Sailer, and was going off; but Lewis firing a Shot at him, brought her to, and he lay by till all the Sloops were vifited and fecured, Then Lewis fent on board him, and ordered the Maffter into his Sloop. As foon as he was aboard, he asked the Reafon of his lying by, and betraying the Truft his Owners had repofed in him, which Was doing likea Knave and Coward, and he would Punith him accordingly; for, he faid, you might have got off, being fo mucha better Sailer than my Veffel. After this Speech he fell upon him with a Rope’s End, and then fnatching up his Cane, drove him about the Decks without Mercy. The Ma- fer, thinking to pacify him, told him he had been Out trading in that Sloop feveral Months, and had a Quantity of Money, which was hid, and which, if he would fend on board a Black belonging to the Owners, he would difcover it tohim. This had not the defired Effet, but one quite Contrary ; for Lewis told him he was a Rafcal and Villain ‘for this Difcovery, and, by G---d, he would bay him for betraying his Owners, and redoubled his Strokes. However, he fent and took the Mo- Ney and Negroe, who was an able Sailor. He. - took out of his Prizes what he had occafion for, 40 able Negroe Sailors, and a white Carpenter ; the largett Sloop, which was about 90 Tuns, he took for hig own Ufe, and mounted her with 12 Guns ; his Crew was now about 80 Men, Whites and Blacks... After thefe Captures he cruifed in the Gulf of Florida, lying in wait for the Wefi-India homeward bound Ships which took the Leeward Paflage, teva: ‘ ra YANO NANVANT ONAN ONO ac bs 254 Of Captain Lewts; ral of which falling into his Hands were plundered, by him, and releafed 5 from ‘hence he went to the Coaft of Carolina, where he cleaned his Sloop, and a great many Men, whom he had forced, ran away, from him ; however, the Natives traded with him for Rum and Sugar, and brought him all he wanted, without the Government’s having any Knowledge of him, for he had got into a very private Creek ; tho’ he was very much on his Guard, that he might not be furprized from the Shoar, From Carolina he cruized on the Coat Of Virgie . J nia, where he took and plunder’d faveral Mer- chant Men, and forced feveral Men, and then re- turn’d to the Coaft of Caroliza, where he did abun dance of Mifchief. ee _ As he had now abundance of French on board. ‘, who had entered with him, and Lemis hearing the ~Englifh had a Defign to Maroon them, he fecured “the Men he fufpetted, and put them in a Boat, with ‘all the other Englifh, 10 Leagues from Shoar, with only 10 Pieces of Beef, and fent them away, keeping none but French and Negroes; thefe Men, it is fuppofed, all perifhed in the Sea. sk a From the Coaft of Carolina he thaped his Courfé for the Banks of Newfoundland, where he over- hawled feveral Fifhing Veffels, and then went into s commodious Harbour, where he cleaned his ~ Sloop, and went into Trinity Harbour in Conception Bay, where there lay feveral Merchants, and fiezed a 24. Gun Galley, called the Herman: The Com- mander, Captain Beal, told Lemis, if he would fend his Quarter-Mafter afhoar he would furnith him with Neceffaries. He being fent afhoar, a Council was held among the Mafters, the Confequence of which was, the feiziag the Quarter-Mafter, whom they carried to Captain Woodes Rogers; he chained him to a Sheet Anchor which was afhoar, and planted “Guns at the Point, to prevent the Pyrate getting out; — : but Of Captain. LEWIS. | 255 bué to. little Purpofe; for the People from one Of thefe Points firing .too foon, Lewis quitted the Ship, and, by the Help of Oars and the Fa- Yourof the: Night, got out in his Sloop, though the received many Shot in her Hull, The laft Shot that was fired at the Pyrate did him. confiderable Damage, ; He lay. off and on the Harbour, fearing he Would have his Quarter-Mafter, and intercepted ‘Wo fifhing Shallops, on board of one was the Cap- _ tan of the Galley’s Brother; he detained them, and fent Word, if his Quarter-Mafter did not im- Mediately come off, he would put all his Prifoners to Death ; he was {ent on board him without He« _ fitation. “Lewis and the Crew enquired, how he had been ufed 2 and he anfwered, very civilly. Its Well, faid the Pyrate; for had you been-ill treats €d, I would have put all thefe Rafcals to the Sword. They were difmifs'd, and the Captain’s Brother going over. the Side, the Quarter-Mafter fopp’d him, faying, he muft drink the Gentlemens Realth aihoar, in particular Captain Roger's, and, Whifpering him in the Ear, told him, if the Crew had known of his being chain’d all Night, he would have been cut in Pieces, with all his Men. After this poor Man and his Shallop’s Company were Gone, the Quarter-Mafter told the Ufage he had. Met with, which enraged Lewis, and made’ him Teproach his Quarter-Mafter, whofe Anfwer was, that he did not think. it juft the Innocent fhould fuffer for the Guilty. | The Mafters of the Merchant Men fent to Caps fin Tudor Trevor, who lay at St. John’s in the Sheerne/s Man of War: he immediately got under Sail, and mifs’d the Pyrate but four Hours. rae She kept along the Coaft, and made Se Nizes, French and Englifh, and put into a Har oat Where a Freuch Ship lay making Fish; She was ae Of Captain Lewis: at the latter End of the War for a Privateer; wa$ an excellent Sailer, and mounted 24 Guns, The Commander haled him the Pyrate anfwered, from Famaica with Rum and Sugar. The French Man bid him go about his Bufinefs; that a Py- rate Sloop was on the Coaft, and he.might be the Rogue; if he did not immediately fheer off he would fire a. Broadfide into him: He went off and lay a Fortnight out at Sea, fo far as not to bé defcry’d from Shoar, with Refolution to have the ~ Ship. The French Man being on his Guard, in the mean while raifed 4 Battery on the Shoar, which commanded the Harbour, After a Fortnight, when he was thought to be gone off, he return’d, and took two of the fithing Shallops belonging to the French Man, and manning them with Pyrates, they went in; one Shallop attack’d ‘the Battery, . the other furpriz’d, boarded, and carry’d the Ship, juft as the Morning Star appear’d, for which Rea- fon he gave her that Name. In the Engagement the Owner’s Son was kill’d, who made the Voyage out of Curiofity only. The Ship being taken, 7 Guns were fired, which was the Signal, and thé Sloop came down and lay a Long-fide the Ship: The Captain told him, he fuppos’d he: only want- ed his Liquor; but Lewis made Anfwer, he wanted his Ship, and accordingly hoifted all his Ammu- nition and Provifion into her; When the French Man faw they would take away his Ship, lie told cher Trim, and Lewis gave him the Sloop; and, excepting what he took for Provifion, all the Fifh - he had made. Several of the French took on with him, who, with others, Exglifh and French, had by Force or voluntarily, made him up 200 Men. ike From Newfoundland he fteer’d for the Coaft of Guiney, where he took a great many Ships, Englifh, Dutch, and Portuguefe among thefe Ships was one belonging to Carolina, commanded by Captain sas sides While oe Of Captain LEWIS) B59 While-he was in Chace of this Vellel an Accident happen’d, which made his Men believe he dealt With the Devil; for he carried away his Fore and Main-Top Maft ; and he, Levis, running up the Shrouds to the Main-Top, tore off a Handful: of Hair; and throwing it into the Air, ufed this Ex- Preflion, Good Devil take this till I come: And, it was Oblerved, that he came afterwards fafter up with the Chace than before the Lofs of his Top-Mafis. . | Smith being taken, Lewis ufed him very civilly,and Save him-as much, or more in Value, than he took ftom him, ard let him go, faying, he would come ‘0 Carolina when he. had made Money on the Coatt; and would rely on his Friendfhip. Pain ae They kept fome Time on the Coaft, when they quarrell’d among themfelves, the French ‘and Eng~ “ih; of which the former was more numerous, and, they refolved to part: The Freach therefore chofe 4 large Sloop newly taken, thinking the Sbipie Bottom, which was not Sheath’d, damaged by the orms. — j , acon board According to this Agreement they took on oat - What Ammunition. and Provifion they. thought fit Sut of the Ship, and put off, chufing one le Barre Caprain.. As it blew hard, and the Decks were os Cumbered, they came to aa Anchor wales gf e Coat, to flow away their Ammunition, Goods, @ Ge ‘Lewis told his Men, they were a Parcel of Rogues, — and he would make ’em refund; accordingly run @ Long-fide his Guns, being all loaded and Naas . Primed, and ordered him to cut away his e 9 r he would fink him. Le Barre was obliged to Obey. Then he ordered them all afhoar ; sthey. begeed to have Liberty of carrying thee fans Goods, ec. with em, but he allow’d em scar fall Arms, and Cartridge Boxes. Then he! es the Sloop a Long-fide, put every Thing on boar the Ship; and funk the Sloop. @ is Z Voi. It. R ke ‘258 Of Captain LEwts. | LeBarre and the rett begg’d to be taken on board; however, though he denied em, he fuffered /e Barre. and fomé few to come, with whom he and his Men drank plentifully.. The Negroes on board Lewis told him, the French had a Plot againft him. ‘He anfwer’d, he could not withftand his Deftiny ; 2 for the Devil told him in the great Cabin, he fhould | ae , OF ag SS ‘be murdered that Night. <> ; * eee Inthe dead of Night came the reft of the French = 9° | Ue ats 2 ee on board in Canoes, got into the Cabbin and killed ee Captain Cor 11€. hus 3 Lewis 5 they fell on the Crew, but, after an Hour Roe ts and Half’s Difpute, the French were beat off, and aes the Quarter-Mafter, Sohn Cornelius, an Irifh Man, 3 Bates 2 And his: Cre W. fir ceeded Lewis. mae me Be — 2 WAving now the Command of the Morning “, oo Star, Corzelius kept on the Coaft, and made . feveral Prizes both Englifh and Portugue/e 5 the former he always difcharged, after he had taken what he thought fitting, but the latter he Commonly burnt. ‘ , While he was thus ravaging the Coaft, two Exglifh Ships which had flaved at Whydah, one of 36 Guns, and the other of 12, which fought clof, Were ready to fail; and having Notice of a Py- | ate, who had done great Mifchief, refolved to keep Company together for their Defence. The * | Captain of the fmall Ship lay fick in his Cabbi, | 2nd the was left to the Care of the Mates. When they had got under Sail, 200 Negroes Jump d over board from the larger Ships, which obliged her to bring to and get out her Boats; the Mate of _ the other went into the Cabbin, told the Acci- Ment, and advifed lying by, and fending their oa OF Boats to affift their Confort; but the renee be- “ie age a ] (326 ill, and willing to get off the’ Coaft, a him : a Keep on hisWay,for it would be dangerous, having — se 420 Slaves on board,and being but weakly mann’d, = ele _ when 260 Of Captain CORNELIUS. when the Boats were gone they might rife upon him. The Mate urged the Danger of the Pyrates, . thould they leave their Confort. Fhe Captain an- fwered, the Seas were wide, and he would not bring to; accordingly they kept on their Way. with a frefh Gale. Two Days after, the. Mate about Eight in the Morning, ordered a Man to the Maft-head, who {pied a Sail, which made them prepare for an Engagement. There was on board one Jofeph Wil- liams, who had fetved the African Company three Years on the Guiney Coaft, who {poke the Negroe Tongue very well; he told the Slaves he had pick’d out to the Number of 50, that the Ship in Sight he believed would fight them, and if they got the better, would certainly, as they were Can- nibals, kill and eat them all, and therefore it be- hoved them to fight for their Lives ; they had Lances and {mall Arms given them. About Ten Cornelius came up with them, and being haled, anfwered, he was a Man of War, in Search of Pyrates, and bid them fend their Boat on board; but they refufing to truft him, tho’ he had Englifh Colours and Pendent aboard, the Py- rate fired a Broadfide, and they began a running Fight of about io Hours, in which Time the Ne- groes difcharged their Arms fo fmartly, that Cor- w#elius never durft attempt to board. About 8 at Night the Ship blew up abaft, they immediately cut the Lafhings of the Long-Boat, but the Ship going down they had not Time to get her out, and barely enough to Jaunch the Yawl, which lay on the Forecaftle. The Ship went down on one Side, and Jofeph Williams running on the other was hook’d by the Mizzen-Trufs, and was . carried down with her; but having his Knife in his Hand, - and a great Prefence of Mind, he cut the Waft- band of his Trowzers where he was catch’d, got , @keary \ Of Captain CORNELIUS. 261 Clear; and fwam after the Boat, into which about 16 had gotten, and: either knock’d thofe on the _ Head, or cut off their Hands, who laid hold on it ; however, with much Entreaty, he was permitted to lay one Hand on to eafe him: They made to the Pyrate, who refufed to receive them, without _ they would enter with him, which, to fave their Lives, they all agreed to, and was then civilly re- Ceived, and dry Cloaths given them; thefe and One Negroe were all the Souls faved. Ina little Time after this he took two Portuguefe Ships, which he plundered and kept with him; and one foggy Morning hearing the firing of Guns, Which, by the diftance of Time, he judg’d to be Minute Guns, as they really were, for the Death Of an Englifh Commander ; he called his Men on board from the Prizes, fent.them about their Bu- ‘finefs, and dire&ted his Courfe by the Report of the Canon he had heard. iat Bg __ In about two Hours ‘he fpied the Ship that had fired, came up with her very foon, and took her Without Refiftance. The Officers of the Ship which _ blew up, finding this Prize Englifh, and that the Pyrate did not intend to detain it, begg’d to be dif Charged, as they had all large Families, which Muft perifh without their Support. 25 Ra Cornelius taking them into’ Confideration, dif- charged Mr. Powis of Limehoufe, who has fince been a Commander, and raiféd a Fortune; the then Chief Mate, Mr. George Forelong, the Boatfwain, Car- Penter, and other married Men, fet them on board the Prize, and was very generous to them out of the Plunder of the Portuguefe Ships, becaufe they had made a broken Voyage; but ofeph Williams and the Batchelors he detained, and forced fome Sut of the Prize, which he let go. b 262 Of Captain CORNELIUS. _, After this he took three Portuguefe Ships at ani Anchor, which he plundered and burnt, after he had hove down by one of them; he continued fome Time longer on the Coaft, did a great Deal of Mifchief to the Trade, and forced.a great many Men: Thefe he put to do all the Slavery of the Ship, and they were beat about the Decks, with- out daring to ftrike again. I fhall take Notice of an Inftance of this Kind, to fhew how far Revenge will carry a Man, One Robert Bland was at Helm, and called Fofeph Williams to take the Whipftaff, till he went to play, Williams refufed it; upon which Bland draubb’d him with the Lanyard of the Whip- ftaft very feverely, Williams that he might revenge himtelf, and have Liberty to fight Bland, went that Inftant and entered him(elf a Voluntier in the Ships Books, and ask’d Leave to fight Bland, which was allowed him, but with no other Weapons than his Fifts; he, however, challenged his Antagonift, _ who was too hard for him; fo that he ¢irned Py- rate to be heartily threfh’d. : - - Cornelius thinking they had been long enough on the Guiney Coait, doubled the Cape, off which he {pied the Lizard and two more Men of War, un- der the Command of Commadore Littletov ; Corne- lius was for giving Chafe, but finding his Men un- - willing, there being, as they gave for Reafon, 70 forc’d Men on board, and thefe Ships being, as they fufpetted, Men of War, he made the beft of his Way for Madagafcar, went up the River Methelage, on the Weft side, and anchored againft Pombotoque, a {mall Village of Blacks. - The Quarter-Mafter went afhore, and the black Governor examined him, for feveral of. thefe Blacks fpeak Englifh, he told the Governor they were come for Provifion and to trade: Upon which he fent a Couple of Oxen on board, and then ordered fome of the Inhabitants to go up with : Of Captain CORNELIUS. | 263 With the Quarter-Mafter to. the King. The Boat’s - Crew feeing a Number. of Blacks come upon the Strand without the Quarter-Mafter, apprehended fome Mifchief had befallen him; but: were eas’d Of their Fears, when they faw two Oxen given them, and were told, the White Man, who was 80ne to the King, would be back next Day, it Not being above 20 Miles from the Shore. When the Quarter-Mafter, who ‘carried up a Blunderbufs, a fine Gun, anda Pair of Piftols, for 2 Prefent to the King, told him they wanted Provi-- fions, he asked where they were bound? To which € anfwered, to feek their Fortunes, for, at pre- feut, they were very poor. Look ye, replied the King, | require nothing of you, all White Men I look upon as my Children; they help’d me to Onquer this Country, and all the Cattle in it is at their Service. I will fend you down Provifions €tough, and when that is {pent you ‘hall have More; he accordingly fent 1coo Head of Cattle, _ Sut of which he bid them chufe what they would, and they falted up a roo fat Oxen. It may be an Amufement to the Reader to have 4 thort Hiftory of this King, who was called An- dian Chimenatto, that is, King Chimenatto: He was 2d Son of Andian Lifouchy, whofe Country lay be- Tween A©ethelage and St. Auguftine, his elder Bro- _ ther Was Timanangarivo. pit the Death of Andian Lyfouchy, Chimenatto, af- ‘ifted by a younger Brother, and a great Number of the People, endeavour’d to wreft the Kingdom from 's elder Brother Timanangarivo, but he was de- “ated, and with his Party obliged to retire, how- “ver, he. ftill made War upon his Brother, till he Was, by repeated Loffes, very much weaken’d, and febtehenfive of being attack’d by him; he retir’d itther Northward, where he made War on Az- dan Methelage, but without great Sugtef{s, fo that "eg : R4 he 264 Of Captain CORNELIUS. he fettled on a Point of Land by the Sea-Coaft, where the Tyloutes, that is, Inhabi‘ants of the Sea; who are defcended from the Arabs, and the Pau- gimbos, who are efteem’d the meaneft Caft on the whole: [land, were very vexatious and trouble- fome'to him, and kept him in continual Alarms, | * In the mean while a couple of Ships‘arrived at — ungowl (the Country of Timdnangarivo) belonging to Frederick Phillips, of New York, to flave; but hearing the old King ‘was dead, who had a great ~ Refpect for the Whites, and that Timanargarivo had ‘cut off the.Crew of a Brigantine, on Pretence- that they had poifo.’d his Father Andian Lyfouchy, for he drunk on board her { much Brandy that he died of it; they would not ftay here, but went farther on the Coaft to look for Trade * Andian Chimenatto {py ing them, caufed a Smoak to be made, which’ brought one of their Boats on Shoar 5 Chimenatto received the Crew. very civilly, and invited the Ships in, promifing Trade. ‘' The Commanders ask’d if he had Slaves? He faid he had but few, however, if they would al-— low fome of their Men to go with him to War, . che would flave both Ships: They anfwered, that’ Timanangarivo his Brother, had murder’d fome of. their Countrymen, and they could put no Confi- dence in him; wpon. which he gave them the Hiftory of his Wars, faid his Brother was a wick- ed Man for what he had done; but if they would fend fome Men with him, he would give his Wives and neareft Relations for Hottages, to be kept on board. iesebiid wares : : ~~ ‘ ' This was.agreed to, and Chimenatto furnithed them with as much freth Provifion as they could difpofe of; twenty Whites went with him to War, and they took a Town and a great Number of Slaves, out of whom’ he ordered the Captain to — pick and cull what they pleas’d; they asked the Here be Of Captain WILLIAMS: Here Williams was ufed with more Refpett thar he had been even by his lai Patron, and. lived with this Prince fome Years; but a War breaking - out; he was routed in a fet Battle, in’ which Wil- liams was his Companion; inthe Purfuic the poor Welfhman finding he could not get off, clappd his Musket at the Foot of a Tree, and climbing up; he capitulated: Hé, was now terribly afraid of being cut to Pieces, for he had fhot and wounded. a great Number of the Enemy, they, however, promis’d him good Quarter, and “kept their Word. ; : The King of A¢aratan, who took him, ufed hint as well as any of the former had done ; and car- ried him always with him’ to the Wars, in: which Fortune was more propitious, for the Parties Williams commanded had conftantly the better of _ their Enemies, and never returned but with great Booties of Cattle and Slaves, for all the Prifoners they take are fo, till redeem’d; tho’ thefe Prifo- -ners are, for the moft part, Women and Chilé ».dren, they feldom giving Quarter’to any other. The Fame of his Bravery and Succefs, fpread it felf round the Country; and his Name: alone was fo tertible, that the giving out he was at the Head of any Party, was giving the Enemies an Overthrow without a Battle. . This reaching the Ears of Dempaino, a mighty Prince who lived 200 Miles from him, and who had feveral Petty Princes Tributaries, he fent an _ Embaffador to demand the White Man; but. his Patroi, who had no Mind to part with him, de- nied that he had any White Man with him, that he who was called fo was a Native of the Coun- _ try. For the Readers better underftanding this Paffage, I muft inform him, that there is a Racé of what they call White Men, who have bee#, * fettled on ALadagafcar; Time out of Mind, and até : oats defcendeé i Mands of fo great a Monarch. oii, s LE’ therefore thould” receive Laws from none ; Of Captain WILLIAMS. 257 efeended from the Arabs ; but mixing with the Negroes, have propagated a Race of Molattoes, Who differ ia nothing from the Manner of living. Of the Black Natives. oz: To proceed, the Embaffador defired to fee this Man, and Williams coming to him, being extreme- ly tann’d, he had pats’d for what he was repors ted, had he been before apprized of what had been faid, to have anfwered accordingly, for he Poke the Language perfectly ; or had the Em- Palador not examined him; who, after he had °me Time viewed him, ask’d of what Country 18 was, and whether it was true that he was one got Madagafiar ? Welliams an{wered, he was an En-. S"man, and was left in the Country, relating the Particulars, asl have already fet them down, ad- ding he chad been five Years-in the Ifland. . _ The Embaffador then told the King, that he ‘Muf. fend the White Man with him, for fuch ete ‘the Orders of his Mafter the great Dempaino, Who Was Lord over moft of the Kings on the de the Country. where he refided; and that ie Would be ‘dangerous, for him to difobey the Com- », The King anfwered, thofe who were fubject to Denpaine ouglit to obey his Commands, but for Bee ey no Man greater than him- and with this Anfwer diimif’d the Ambaflador; Who, at his Return, reported to his Mafter the 8 Words, adding, they were delivered in a *ughty Strain. Dempaino, who was not ufed to Goo his Commands difputed, order’d one of his oetals to march with 6000 Men, and demand N€ White Man, and in Cafe of Refufal, to de- pounce War, that .he fhould fend him back an *PrefS of it, and he would follow in Perfon with — a Thefe yny to enforce a Compliance. lit for no other End than to. fhew the and Efteem he had for the Europeans. 258 Of Captain WILLIAMS. ~ Thefe Orders were put in Execution with thé greateft Difpatch and Secrecy ; fo that the Tow” was invefted, before any Advice was given of thé ' Approach of an Enemy. The General told thé -Kieg, it was in his Choice to have Peace or Wat with his Mafter, fince it depended on the Delivé- ry of the White Man.’ : _ The Kicg thus furpriz’d, was obliged, howevet contrary to his Inclinations, to give Williams uP to the General, who return’d with him to Den- paine, without committing any Holtilities; tho’ bé threatned to befiege the Towr, and put all but the Women and Ch'ldren to the Sword, if thé King of Aararan did not pay the Expence of b'% _Mafier’s fending for the White Man, which b rated at I00 Slaves, and 500 Head of Cattlé the King objetted to this as a hard Conditio? and an unjuft Impofition, but was obliged to ac quiefce in it, : One Thing, remarkable enough, had like ¢? have flipp’d me; which is, the King of Adarat” fent Williams to the General without any Atte? dace, which made him ask, if the White, Ma” was a Slave? The King anfwered, he had 19° ufed him like one. I may very well, faid the General, be of a contrary Opinion, fince you hav? fert no Bcdy to wait upon him: Upon which Rep!” mand, the King fent Williams a Prefent. of a Slave: He was received by Dempaino with a great m#” ny Careffes, was handfomely cloathed | accordiné “to the Country Manner, had Staves. ailotred ¢? wait on him, and every Thing that’ was necefla1y and convenient; fo that King Dempaino was at th . Trouble of fending. 6000 Men, one would thinks great Value He co ‘Ship on Shore, by CarelefsnefS they ; . Back, and loft pe The Crew lived here till the Arrival of the Pelican, another Pyrate, mentioned I North’s Lite. Here the King feeing 259 Of Captain WILLIAMS. When the Bedford Galley, a Pyrate, commanded by Athen Jones, a Wellman, came on the Coat, on. board of which Ship Williams was permitted to en- ters they went to Auguffine, where, laying the broke her North’s Life ; fome of them went on board this Ship, and fteer’d for the Eajft-Jndies. Walliams dhifted out of this on board the Mocha Frigate, & Pyrate, commanded by Captain Culliford, ane Made a Voyage; then, returning to. St. Afarys, they fhared the: Booty they had got in the Red ‘Seas, | hall not here mention the Particulars of this, laft Expedition, defigning to write Captain filiferd’s Life, which it more properly belongs 0. = ~_ Some.of the Crew, being Weft Indians, having an Opportunity, SH home ;_ but Willams re- Main’d here till the Arrival and taking of Capt. Forgette, which has been already mentioned: He Was one of thofe who took the Speaker, (the Man- Ner has been told before, in another Lite) pane Voyage in her, and returned to Laas a ey ue aa What Prefent he intended to make him for for Mer Kindnels? Williams anfwered, he had been gre Paid by the Prince whom he took him from ant by his Services, which Anfwer fo irritated his fe: Tatanian Majefty, that he ordered him to aut “pountry and he could hardly. after that fe Im“ with. Patience. °= : ‘Sa he went on board the. Profperous, te Captain Howard, Commander, who, ae a Mary's, and thence to the Main, as is faid in thi -Pyrate’s Life, and was one of the Men left behind ‘tinved with this Prince till the Arrival of a ships - When they hada Defign to carry off Ort Van Hylee which was fome Years after his leavirg Afarat@” : POLAISD itchman kept him to hard Labour, a8 pian i ; ; ; he! aaa Pes : ting Ya 260 Of Captain VILL Tams, ting Potatoes, Gc. in revenge for the Deftruction and Havock made in his Plantations by the Crew of the Profperous ; he was here in’ the Condition. of a Slave fix Months, at the Expiration of which Time, he had an Opportunity (and embraced it) to run away, leaving his Confort, Tho. Collins, be-. hind him, who had his Arm broke when he was taken by the Dutchman, 3 tees as Having made his Efcape from a rigid, revenge- ful Mafter, he got’ to a Black Prince, named Rebai- harang, with whom he lived half a Year; he from hence went’ and kept Company with one’ jahs Pro, another Dutchman, who had a’ {mali Settle- ment on Shore, till the’ Arrival of the Men’ of War,commanded by Commodore Richards, who took both Pro and his Gueft Williams, put them in Trons (on board the Severn) till they came to Sohaniay where the Captain ‘of the Severn undertook «for 2000 Dollars to go againft the Mohilians, in which “Expedition feveral of the Man of War’s Crew were killed, and the two Pyrates made their BL “cape in a {mall Canoe to Mohila, where” they fhelter’d themfelves a while in the Woods, out of which they got’ Provifions, and made over for Johanna; here they recruited themfelyes and went away for Mayorta, an Ifland 18 Leagues in Length- The King of this Ifland built them a Boat, and giving them Provifions and what’ Neceffaries they required, they made for and arrived at Madagal- “car, where, at Methelage, in the Lat. of 16, 409: or thereabouts, they join’d, as has been faid, Cap tain White. tt Here they lay about 3 Months, then fetting © ~ Fire to their Boat, they went into White's, and rounding the North End came to Ambonavoula $ here Williams ftaid till Captain White brought the Ship Hopewell, on board of which he entered be -fore’the Maft, made a Voyage to the Red Seass RE towards Of Captain. WILLIAMS. 261 ‘owards the End of which he was chofen Quar- ter-Mafter. At their Return. they touch’d at Afa/- "4renas for Provifions, where almoft half the Com- iD went afhore and took up their Habita- aS: pet om AMafcarenas they fteer’d for Hipewell (by 0 tividing theit Plunder, they fettled themlelves. Twelve, Months after, the Charles Brigantine, Captain Halfey, came in, as is mentioned in his yor age 5 at their Return they came to Maratan, . Ved afhore, and affifted the King in his War rptintt his Brother, which :being ended in the. “trugion of the latter, and a Pyrate lying at yeonavoula, feuding his Long-Boat to A¢anangcaro, te thin ten Leagues of Alaratan, Williams and the. et went on board, and in three Months after he a been at Ambonavoula he was chofen Captain. tthe Scorch Ship, mentioned in Halfey’s Life. . This Ship he work’d upon with great Harneft- he and made the Scars Prifoners labour hard at © fitting her up for a Voyage; and fhe was. et eady for the Seas when a Hurricane forced et athore, and fhe was wreck’d. eS, 8] Some Time after this he fet up and finifhed a fr oP» in which he and ten of his Men, defign’d 7% Mafcarenas, but miffing the Ifland they went head Madagafcar,to a Place called Methelage, where th laid his Vellel athore and flaid a Year; but he King being tired with his morofe Temper, and to ‘ Wagreeing with every Body, he was order’d he° 80ne, and accordingly fitting up his Vefiel of But to Sea, intending to go round.the North End. the ne Iland ; but the Wind being at E. S. E. and Po, current fetting to N. W. he put back to a tg Called the Boyne, within 10 Leagues of Me- 8% in the fame King’s Dominions whom he had Me call’d Hopeful) Point, on Madagafcar, where — sf. Williams went on board him and made a‘ — EW KS SPARS FA 4 262° Of Captain Witt ams, Jeft. The Governor of this Place was defcended from the Arabs, and it was here that the Arabi- ans traded. i When he came to an Anchor, he and three of . his Mea (he had but 5 wich him) went oa Shore; paddled by two Negroes. David Eaton and Wil- | bani Dawfon, two of the Men, required a Guide, to thew them the Way to the King’s Town; the Governor order’d them one, and, at the fame, time, Iaid an Ambuth for them in the Road, and caufed them to be murdere|. When they had leit the Boyn, Williams and Weyeurs, a Evenchmatty who alfo came athore in’ the Canoe, went to bay ~fome Samfams, which are agate Beads; as they were looking over thefe Goods, a Nuniber of tue Governor's Men came about them, feiz’d them - both, and immediately difpatch’d Afeyeurs, Wilk liams they bound, ard tortu’d almoft a whole Day, by throwing het Athes on his Head and in “his Face; and putting little Boys to beat him with Sticks; he offer’d the Governor 2000 Dol Jars for his Life, but he anfwer'd, he’d hive both that and the Money too; and accordingly whe# he was near expiring, they made an End of hit with their Lanices. After this barbarous. Murder, the Governot thought of feizing the Sloop, on board of which were no more than two White Men, fix Negr¢é Boys, and fome Women Slaves of the fame C0- lour ; however, he thought it beft to proceed bY Stratagem, and therefore putting a Goat and fomé Calabafhes of Toke on board William’s Can0& with twelve Negroes arm’d, and the Sloop Ne Broes to paddle, ‘he fent to furprize her. whe? the Canoe came pretty near the Veffel, they hal dy and ‘ask’d if they would let them come aboard * One of the Men ask’d William’s Negroes where _ the Captain” was? He anfwered, drinking Bare ; wi Of Captain WILLIAMS. ~ 263 With the Governor, and fent them Provifion and Toke. A Negroe Wench advifed the White Man, Whofe Name was Wiliam Noakes, not to let them “ome on board, for 2s four White Men weit ‘hore, and none of them appear’d, ihe iufpected tome Treachery; however, on the Anfwer made him from the Canoe, he refolved to admit them, “id giving the Wench a Kick, cryed, D—m ye, "uff we have no frefh Provifins for your Whimftes 5 he called them on board, and no fooner were they on Deck but one of them {hatching Noakes his Piftol, {hot him thro’ the Head, and feizing the other White Man, threw him over-board and drown'd him; after which, being Mafters of the ‘effel, they carried her mandrifledher, The King was at this Time a hunting, as is his uftom to hunt Boars three Months in the Year 5 bat the Account of thefe Murders foon_reach’d him, however, he ftaid the accuftom’d Time of hig Diverfion; but when he returned home, and the Whites, who were ebout him, demanded Ju- fice, he bid them be quiet, they might depend “Pon his doing it: He fent to the Governor of yy, and told him, he was glad that he had cut Ott Williams and his Crew, an Example she ‘was re- Olved to follow and clear the Country of them “ll, That he had fome Affairs to communicate to him, and defired he would come to Court as foon as poffible, but take Care he was not feen by any of the Whites, for fear by his, they thou’d Tevenge the Death of their Companions. The Governor on thefe Orders came away im- ediately, and ftopp’d two Miles fhort, at a little Town two Miles diftant from the King’s, and fent Word he there waited for his Commands. The King ordered him [to be with him early Next Morning, before the Wh'te Men were out oe their Beds: he fet forward. accordingly the ee next £64 OF Captain WILLIAMS. ,. Next Day betimes, but was feiz’d on the. Road by Negroes placed for that Purpofe, and brought bound to the King, who, after having reproach’d him with the Barbarity of his A&tion, fent him to the White Men, bidding them put him to what Death they pleafed; but they fent Word back, he might difpofe of his Subjef&ts Lives as he thought fit, but for their Part they would never draw a Drop of Blood of any who belonged to him. Upon which Anfwer the. King’s Uncle or- dered him to. be fpeared, and he was accordingly thruft thro” the Bedy with Lances. The King, - after this Execution, fent to Boyn, and had every: Thing brought which -had belonged to Williams and his Men, and divided ir among the Whites, faying, He mas forry the Villain had but one Life to make Attencment for the Barbarity he had been guilty of: | MACACA | Capt. Samuel Burgefs, And his Crew. MApt. Samuel Burges was born in New-York, and had a good Education; he was what they call a well-fet Man, and bandy legg’d; he fail’d fome Time as a Privateer in the Weft-Indies, and very ofteu, the Gang, he was with, when the Time o! their cruizing was expir’d, would take no Ceremony of prolonging the Commiffion by their own Authority. esilies By his Privateering he got together fome little. = Money, and returned home, where the Govern-. Ment having no Notice, or, at leaft, taking none, Of his pyratical Practice, in ftaying beyond the Date of his Commiffion: He went out Mate of @ Ship, in the Service of Frederick Phillips, bound to the Ifland of AMdadagafcar, to trade with the Pyrates, where they had the Misfortune to. lofe their Ship, and lived eighteen Months at Aun Suftine, when an Englifh Pyrate coming 1, the King of the Country obliged him to go on board her,tho Much againft his Inclination, for he was tired of /. @ roving Life ; but their Choice was to go or ftarve, for the King would keep them no longer. = He AT TNS DE AA BD AOA NFA UNO BE OE 266 Of Captain BURGESS, He went with this free Booter to the Eaf In- dies, where they made feveral rich Prizes; re-. turned to St. Mary's, where they took in Provi- fions, Wood, and Water. Several of their Gang knock’d off here; but the Captain, Bargefs, and the Remainder, went away for the Weft Indies, dil- pofed of their Plunder on the Spanifh Coaft, and then returning to New York, purpolely knocked the Ship on the Head at Sandy Hook, after they had fecur’d their Money athore. The Government not being inform’d of their Pyracy, they lived here without Moleftation, and, in a fhort Time, Burgefs married a Relation of Mr. Phillips, who built a Ship, called the Pembroke, and fent hima fecond Time to Afadagafcar. In his Way to this Ifland, he went into the River of Dilagou on the African Coaft, where he took in a Quanticy of Elephants Teeth; and thence to Az- uftine, where he met with feveral of his old Ship Sates with whom he traded for Money ‘and Slaves. Leaving this Place he went to Methelage, where he alfo took fome Money and. Negroes 3 and from thence he fhaped his Courfe for 5t. Mary’s, on the Exft Side, where he alio drove @ confiderable Trade with his old Comrades, took feveral of them Paffengers, who paid verv gene- roufly for their Paifage,; and taking with him an Account of what was proper to bring in an- other Trip, he return’d to New York, without any finfier Accident: This Voyage clear’d 5,000 1+ Ship and Charges paid. ‘ Vash "His Owner encouraged by this Succefs, bid him chufe what Cargoe he pleas’, and fet ont again 5 accordingly he laded with Wine, Beer, &e. and returning to Madagafcar arrived at Marataw on the Eaft Side, where he difpofed of a great Part of his Cargoe at his own Rates, At Afethelage he aifpofed of the reft, and return’d, clearing for Of Captain BURGESS. 267 himfelf and Owner 10,0001. befides 300 Slaves he brought to New York. 7 After a fhort Stay at home, he fet out again ®n the old Voyage, fell in firft with Azethelage, where he vittualled and traded; from thence he Went round the South End, touch’d and fold Part of his Cargoe at a large Profit, to his old Acquaintance. He madea trading Voyage round the Ifland, and at St. MZary’s met another Ship be- longing to his Owner, which had Order to follow his Direétions; he ftay’d at this Port till he had difpofed of the Cargoe of both Ships; he then — thaped his Courfe homewards, with about 20 Py- tates Paffengers, who had accepted the Pardon brought by Commadore Littleton. In his Way he touch’d at the Cape of Good Hope, for Wood, Water, and frefh Provifion: While he was here, the Loyal Cook, an Eaft India. Man came — in, who made Prize of Burgefs, and carried him to the Eajt Indies; he there would have delivered Burgefs’s Ship to the Governor of Maderafs, but -the Governor would have no Hand in the Affair, and told the Captain, he muft anfwer to the Eaft-India Company and Burgefs’s Owner for what che had done. Moft of the Pyrate’s Paffengers thought them- felves clear’d by the A& of Grace; but fome of them, not willing to truft to it, got off with What Gold they could, in a Dutch Boat; they Who truited to the Pardon were clapp’d in Goal, and died in their Irons. I cannot omit the Sim- Plicity of one of them, who had, however, the Wit to get off: When he defigned to go away, he look’d for his Comrade for the Key of his Cheft,. to take his Gold with him, which a- Mounted to Seventeen hundred Pounds; but this Comrade being afhore, he would not break open the ig 268. Of Captain BURGESS: ? Cheft, for it’ was Pity, he faid, to fpoil a. good. new Lock, fo left his Money for the Captain of the Eaf-India Man, ; The News of this Capture came to the Ow- ner before the Ship return’d, and he fued the Company , but, ‘at their Requeft, ftaid for the Arrival of the Loyal Cook, which brought Burgefs . The Captain Prifoner to England foon after. finding himfelf in an Error, and that what he had done could not be juftified, abiconded; the Com- pany made good the Ship and Cargo to the _ Owner. Burge/s was fet at Liberty, continued fome Time in London, was impeach’d, and Pyra- cy fworn againft him by Cuiliford (mentioned in Williams’s Life) who notwithftanding, he came home on the A& of Grace, was clappd into WNemgate, tried aud acquitted, tho’ he was beg- ar’d. 2 Burgess Owner ftickled very hard for him, and expended great Sums of Mousey to fave him; however, tho” he pleaded the Neceffity of his going on board the Pyrate, (as his Life fhews ic) he was. tried and condemn’d; but by the Inter- céffion of the Bifhops of London and Canterbury, was pardon’d by the Queen. Afcer this, he made a broken Voyage to the South Sea, Lieutenant to a Privateer, and returning to London, was out of Bufinefs a whole Year. Re then fhipp’d himfelf Mate on board: 'the “Fannab, afterwards called the Neptune, and went to Scotland to take in her Cargo, the Owner being of that Nation; but before fhe got thither he rhe Owner broke, and the Ship was ftopp’d, and lay . 18 Months before the was difpos'd of: But be- ing fet to Sale, and fix Scorch Gentlemen buying her, the old Officers were continued, and fhe . proceeded on her firft defigned Voyage to Aduda- gafcars Of Captain BURGESS. 269° Lafcar, in which ‘the Captain and Burgefs quarrel- ling, was the Lofs of ‘the Ship; ‘for the latter, Who was acquainted with the Pyrates, when they artived at AMadagafear, {pirited them up to fur- Prize her: The Matiner how, being already {et down in Halfey’s Life, 1 need not repeat.” . 1 hall only take Notice, that Captain A#Uer be- ing decoy’d aihore, under Pretence of being thew'd fome Trees, fit for Mafting, Halfey invited him to @ Surloin of Beef, and’a Bow! of Arrack Punch’; he accepted the Invitation, with about 20 of the. Pyrates. ‘One Emmy, who had been a Waterman — ©n the Thames, did not come to Table, but fat by, mufiled up ina great. Coat, ‘pretending he Was’ attack’d by the Ague, tho’ he had put ie On ‘to: conceal his ‘Piftols only. After’ Dinner, When Haley went out, as for fométhing’ to enters tain‘his Guefts, (Miller and his Supetcargo,) Emmy Clapp’d’a’ Piftol ‘tothe ‘Captain’s Breaft, and told him, he was his Prifonér; ‘at the fame Inftant, two other Pyrates enter’d the Room, with each * Blunderbufs in his Hand, and told'the Captain and his Supercargoe, that no Harm‘ fhould come to'either, if they didnot bring -it upon them- felves by an ufelefs Refiftance. While this patt with- 40 Doors, the Wood being lined’ with Pyrates, all Miller’s Men, whom he had brought’afhore to fall Timber,’ were fecur’d;- but ‘none hurt, and all Civilly'treated. When they had ‘afterwards got Poffeffion of the Ship, in the Manner mention’d before, they fet all their Prifoners'at Liberty. _, Miller, with eleven of his Men, was fent’ off, #8 is faid in Halfey’s Lifé: The Company chofe — Burgefs Quarter-Mafter, and fhar’d the Booty they hound, had: made out of the’ Scotch Ship, and the Grey. Soon 270 Of Captain BURGESS. Soon after happen’d Hal/ey’s Death, who left Burgefs Executor in Truft for his Widow and Children, with a confiderable Legacy for him- felf, and the other Pyrates grumbling at a new Comer’s being preferr’d to all of them, took from Burge/s 3,000 1. of Halfey’s Money, and -1200 |. of his own, which was his Share of the two Prizes. Tho’ he had been treated in this Manner, they were idle enough to give him the Command of the Scots Ship, and order’d him to fit her out with all Expedition, and to take on board fome Men and Goods Jeft in the Brigan- tine: He fet to work on the Ship, with full Defign to run away with her; but fome Py- Fates, who were in another Part of the Ifland, being informed of thefe Proceedings, thought it not prudent to truf him, fo he left the Ship, and. getting among his old Comrades, by their Interpofition, had all his Money return’d. _ After this he lived five Months on the Ifland (Of St. A¢ary’s, where his Houfe was, by. Acci- dent, burnt down, out of which he faved no- _ thing but his Money; he then went on board David Williams, when he mifs'd the \fland of Maf- arenas, and returned to Methelage, where he ftaid with the King, and was one of the Men amov$ whom he divided Wiliam’s Effests. From Methelage he went with a Parcel of Sam- fams to Axguftine, with which he bought fifty Slaves, whom he fold to the Arabians. In his ‘Return to Adethelage, he met Captain North in # Sloop, with thirty of Afiver?s Men on board} “thefe Men propos’d the taking Burgefs, who had, they faid, betrayed, ruined, and baniited them thei! Country, by forcing them to turn Pyrates; but North would not confent: Upon which, they co? fined him, took North and ftripp’d him of ‘all thé- Moneys at 8 UE VRUEYV BV SES PV a SVE Be Ve SAS BNE SAREE EEE E ERE SLE EAE EES ES: Of Captain BURGESS.. 278 Money, and then releafing their Captain, gave him 300 |. as his Share, which he returned to Burgefs on his Arrival at Methelage. 5 Burge/s lived here two or three Years, till he was Carried off by fome Dutchmen; they belonged to an Eajt-India Man, and were taken by two French | Ships, which being bound for Afocha, and {carce, Of Provifions, came into Afethelage to vidual, where they fet 80 of their Prifoners afhore. When they parted from this Port they fail’d for %- hanna, where they left the Dutch Officers, who built a Ship, and came back for their Men. Bar- &efs being of great Ufe to them, they took him On board, and fteer’d for a Port, where fome Dutch, taken in another Ship, were maroon’d ; but they were wreck’d at Youngoul, where Burge/s con- tinued eighteen Months. After ‘this Time was expir’d, he was defirous of leaving the Place, and addrefiing himfelf to the King, who was Uncle to the King of Afethelage, he. requefted. |. ner with fome of the principal Blacks, and drank very plentifully with them of Honey Toke, in which it is fuppofed he was poifon’d, for he fell ill and died foon after, leaving what he had to the Care of the chief Mate, for the Ufe of his “Wife and Children, Jog apo os APPENDIX > | Firt VOLUME, fpeale have already touched upon thé’ Hiftory of fome of the Pyrates, which we fhall have Occafion to name here over again, but fince the printing our firft Volume, the followiig Re= Wh: _ dations are fallen into ‘our Hands, . hast being much more cutious and particular Age@ty Thing hitherto made publick upon thefe fhirs, we are fatisfied our Readers will find their cea pao wen ~tertainment in the Perufal of if. =. i APPENDIS Gg dou the 20th of July 1718, Mr. Woods Rogers, by Sthor and: Vice-Adimiral of the Bahama Iflads, sake ak : ae ty ® (ent from England with the King’s Proclas a? RES, SEAL ae T “gs te fon, and Pardoa for all Pyrates who had furs — = dered by aTime Specified inthe faidProclamas meee ee tion, Bo om am oa. OPT EF EAA OO AIC BAR , ( 274) : tion, arrived at Providence. It was Evening when the Fleet came off the Town of Naffau in the faid Ifland, when Richard Turnley, the Pilot, who was on board the Délicia, did not judge it fafe to venture. over the Bar that Night, wherefore it was refol- ved to lie bye till Morning. - In the mean Time there came fome Men o1 board the Fleet from off a little Ifland, called Harbour Ifland, adjacent to Providence. The Ad- vice they brought was, that there were near 2 thoufand Pyrates on Shore upon the Iiland of VE vidence, waiting for the King’s Pardon, which ha been long expetted. The principal of their Come manders were Benj. Horneygold, Arthur Davis, se Burgefs, Tho. Carter, and they were all in or abou the Townof Naffau; that the Fort was extreme- ly out of Repair, there being only one Gun miOW IE ed, a.nine Pounder, and no Accommodation Me Men, but one little Hut or Houfe, which ae inhabited by anold Fellow, whom the Pyrates, 1 Derifion, called Governor Sawney. i! The Fleet was feen from the Harbour, as uher as the Town, fo that Captain Charles Vane, we had no Defign of furrendring , but, on the contt A ry, had fitted out his Ship witha Refolution of 4 of tempting new Adventures, took the Advantage ° | the Night to contrive his Efcape; and though i Harbour was blocked up, and his Ship drew ae _ much Water to get out by tother Eaft Paflage, a fhifted his Hands, and Things of moft Value, wpe a lighter Veffel, and charging all the Guns of. a Ship he quitted with Double-Round and Partti iH - he fet it on Fire, imagining, that fome of ad Ships, or their Boats, might be fent near hime? te he might do fome Mifchief when it thould down to them. . ot Sver his Head. G75, Thofe in the Fleet faw the Light, and heard the uns, and fancied the Pyrates on Shore were ma- king Bonfires, and firing Guns for Joy that the ing’s free Pardon was arrived ; and Captain Wj. wy, Gommander of the Rofe Man of War, fent his Boat with his Lieutenant on Shore, which was ing tercepted by Vane, who carried the Crew on Board; and firipped them of fome Stores they had in the Boat, he kept them till he got under Sail, which Was till Day-break, when there was Light enough for him to fee how to fteer his Way through the. aft Paffage ; which was. no fooner done but he hoifted a black Flag, and fired a Gun, and then let € Lieutenant and Boat’s Crew depart and join the Fleet. ae The Fleet got {afé into the Hatbour, and aé foon 4S the Lieutenant arrived on Board, and related What’ had pafied, the Buck Sloop was ordered to Chace Vane, fhe made what Sail the could through the Haft Paflage after him, having a Recruit of Men well armed {ent to her from the other Ships s but being heavily laden with rich Goods, Vane had the Heels of her, which the Commadore obferving, ade a Signal for her to leave off the Chace, and Feturn, which the did accordingly. They immediately fell to mooring and fecuring we Ships, which took up the Time till Night ¢ ext Morning the Governor went on Shore, being eceived at his Landing by the Principal People in _ the Government of the Place, as Thomas Walker, E.{q; Chief Juftice, and Thomas Tz lor, Efg; Prefident of the Council ; the Pyrate Captains, Hornygold, Davis, arter, Burghe/s, Currant, Clark, with fome others, . ee up their Crews in two Lines, reaching from € Water-Side to the Fort, the Governor and other Officers marching between them; in the mean Time, they being under Arms, made a running Fire Ts Being SPLOT OTA INFANT AOS ag : Being arrived at the Fort, his Commiffion was ‘opened and read, aud he was {worn in Governor 0: the Ifland, according to Form. G The next ay the Governor made out a Com miffion to Richard Turnley, the chief Pilot, to Mr. Salter, a Factor, and {ome others, to go on Board and examine all fufpected Ships and Veffels in the Harbour, to take an Inventory of their feveral La- dings, and to fecure both Ship and Cargo for the Ufe of the King and Company, till fuch Time as 4 Court of Admiralty could be called, that they _ might be lawfully cleared or condemned by proving which belonged to Pyrates,.and which to fair Traders. ; The Day following a Court-Martial was held, in which a military Difcipline was fettled, in or- der to prevent Surprizes, both from Spaniards and Pyrates, till fuch Time as the Fort could be re- paired, and put into a Condition of Defence ; for this Purpofe the Governor was obliged to make Ufe of fome of the pardoned Pyrates, fuch a3 Hornygold, Davis and Burghefs, to whom he gave fome Commands; and George Fetherfton, ames Bor 70), and Dennis Macartey, with fome other Pyrates : a lower Rank, aéed under them as inferior Of cers. pe Soon after the civil Government’ was alfo fet- Jed, fome of the principal Officers being appointed Juftices of the Peace, others of inferior Degrees Conftables and Overfeers of the Ways and Roads» which were overgrown with Buthes and Under woods al! about the Town of Waffau ; fo that if any Bne- my had landed in the Night, they might lie # Ambufcade in thofe Covers, and furprize thé Town; wherefore feveral of the common PyrateS were employed in clearing away the faid Buthe> aud Uuderwood, tt ated fs — “gphe (277) . _ The Governor, with ome Soldiers, guarded the Fort, and the Inhabitants, who were form’d into Train’d-Bands, took Care of the Town; but as there was no Sort of Accommodation to lodge fuch * Number of People, they were forced to unbend the Sails, and bring them on Shore, in order to - Make Tents, till they had Time to build Houtes, _ Which was done with all poflible Expeditiou, by a ind of Architetture altcgether new. - Thofe that were built in the Fort were done by Making fix little Holesin the Rock, at convenient iftances, in each of which was ftuck a forked Ole; on thefe, from one to t’other, were placed ~ ftofs Poles or Rafters, which beiug lathed at Top, nd on the Sides, with {mall Sticks, were after- Wards covered with Palmata Leaves, and then the Oufe was finifhed ; for they did not much trou- © ble themfelves about the Ornaments of Doors and Windows. : {n the mean Time the repairing the Fort ‘was “arried on, and the Streets were ordered to be kept Clean, both for Health and Conveniency, fo that it began to have the Appearance of a civilized lace, * A Proclamation was publifhed for the Encourage- Ment of all fuch Perfons ihould be willing to fettle Upon the Ifland of Providence, by which every Per= fon was to have a Lot of Ground of a hundred and twenty Foot fquare, any where in or about the Town of Nafau, that was not before in the Poffeffion of others, provided they fhould clear the Rid Ground, and build a Houfe tenantable, by a ertain Time therein limited, which might be eafily doe as they might have Timber for nothing. This had the Effect propofed, and a great many imme- diately fell co work to comply with the Conditions, Morder to fettle chemfelves there, ©” i 3 Many ok ARQ : Many of the Pyrates were employed in the Woods in cutting down -Sticks to make Pallifa- does ; and all the People belonging to the Ships (Officers excepted) were obliged to work four’ Days in the Week upon the Fortifications, fo that in a fhort Time a ftrong Entrenchment. was caft ‘round the Fort, and being well pallifadoed, it ren dered the Fort tolerably ftrong, But it did not much fuit the Inclinations of the Pyrates to be fet to work; and though they had. Provifion fufficient, and had alfs4i good Allowance - of Wine and Brandy to each Man, yet-they began to have fuch a hanketing after their old Trade, that many of them tok Opportunities of feizing Perriaguas, and other Boats, in the Night, and ma~ king their Efcapes, fo that in a few Months there was not many of them left. However, when the Spanifh War was proclaim’d, feveral of them return’d back again of their ow? Accords, being tempted with the Hopes of being employed upon the privateering Account, (which 18 fomething like pyrating ;) for that Place lying neat the Coaft of Spanifh America, and alfo not far from the Gulph of Florida, feemed to be a good Statio® for intercepting the Spanifh Velfels going to old Spain. “oe . : They were not miftaken in this Suppofition, for the Governor, according to the Power vefted 1% him, did grant Commiffions for privateering, and made Choice of fome of the principal Pyrates wh? had continued upon the Ifland, in Obedience t? the Pardon, for Commanders, as being Perfon® well qualified for fuch Employments, who made up their Crews chiefly of their feattered Com” panions, who were newly returned upon the Hope of Preferment. ‘About € 279 J About this Time a Fithing Veffel belonging to the Ifland of Providence brought in the Matter of a Ship and a few Sailors, whom ihe had picked up at Sea i a Canoe; the faid Mafter was called Captain King, who failed in a Ship called the Nep- tune, belonging to Souch-Carolina, \oaden with Rice, Pitch, Yar, and other Merchandizes, bound for London, ‘ The Account: he gave of himfelf was, that he Was met with by Charles Vane the Pyrate, who car- Ned him into Grees Turtle Bay, one of the Bahama Mlands, by whom he was plundered of a great Part Of his Cargoe, which confifting chiefly of Stores, _ Was of great Ufe to them ; that afterwards they Cut away Part of one of the Mafts of the Ship, and fired a‘Gun down her Hold, with Defign of finking her; that they took fome of his Men in- to their Service, and when they were failing off ave him and the reft a Canoe to fave themfelves ; that with this Canoe they made fhift to fail from . One little Ifland to another, till they had the good 7 Luck to meet the Fifhing Boat which took them ‘Ups and that he believed Charles Vane might ftill be cruifing thereabouts. * Upon this Intelligence the Governor fitted out @Ship which was named the Willing Mind, mann’d With fifty ftout Hands, well armed, and alfo a Sloop With thirty Hands, which he fent to cruife amone ft thofe [flands, in fearch of Yume the Pyrate, giving them Orders alfo to endeavour to recover the Ship Neptune, which Captain King told them had » till Goods of a confiderable Vaiue left in her, They went out accordingly, but never faw Vane; however, they found the Neptuze, which was not funk 2s the Pyrates intended, for the Ball they | fired into her ftuck in the Ballaft, without paffing through, by Reafon the Gun, had not been fufi- Gently charged, and fo they returned with her T4 about € 28 ): about: the roth of November 5 but an unlucky Ac? cicenuc happeved to the shi p Willing Mind, occafion= ed either by the ignorance or. Caréleifuels of the Filor, which was bulged in going over the Bar. In the mean Time Vane made towards the Coatt OF Hifpaniola,. living riotouily on Board, having ftore of Liquor, and plenty of freth Provifions, tuck as Hogs, Goats, Sheep, Fowl, which he gat upot ealy Terms, for touching at a Place. called Tflea. therer, he plundered the Inhabitants of as much of their Provifion as they could carry away: Here they cruifed to about February, when, near the Windward Patlage of Cape Mafe, they mer with ~ a large-rich Shp of London, called the King (ton, loa- den with Bale Goods, and other righ Merchan-' dize, and having feveral Paifengers on Board, fome Englifh, and fome Jews, befides two Women. Towards the North-End of Jamaica they allo met with a Turtle Sloop, bound in for that [fland, on Board of which (after having firft plundered cher) they put the Caprain of the Kingfton, aud fome of his Men, and all the Pailengers, except 7 the two Women, whom they kept for their ows . Entertainment, contrary to the ufual Praétice of Pyrates, who generally fent them away, leaft they. fhould: occafion Contention. i _ The sh’p Kingffon they kept for their own Ue} for now their Company being ftrengthened by @ great many Recruits, fome Voluntiers, and {ome forced Men out of the Neptune and Kingfton, they thought they had Hands enough for two Ships 3 accordingly they fhifted feveral of their Hands on Board the Kingffon, and Yobn Rackham, alias Callico Gack, (fo called, becaufe his Jackers and Drawers were always mace of Callico) Quarter-Mafter t0 Vane, was unanimoufly chofen Captain. of the . Kingfton. : ee eee : ‘ iA _ Refit thereo®, was not exoired. rR > a 5 (281) _., The Empire of thefe Pyrates had not been fong __ thus divided before they had like to have fallen into a civil War amongit themfelves, which muft ave ended in the Deftruction of one of them. The fatal Occafion of the Difference betwixt thefe two Brother Adventurers, was this ; It hap. _ bened that Yane’s Liquor was all out, who fending to his Brother Captain for a Supply, Rackham ac- cordingly {pared him what he thought fit ; but ft falling thort of Vane’s Expettation, as to Quan- tity, he went on Board of Rackham’s Ship to expo- ftulare the Matter with him, fo that Words arifing, Rackha threaten’d to fhoot him thro’ the Head, if he did not immediately return to his own Ships _ 4nd told him likewife, that if he did not fheer off, and part Company, he would fink him. Vane thougnt it-beft totake his Advice, ‘for he thought the other was bold enough to be as good as his Word, for he had it in his Power to be fo, his ‘Ship being the largeft and ftrongeft of the two, a Accordingly they parted, and Rackham made for the Ifland of Princes, and having great Quautities of rich Goods-on Board, taken in the late Prizes, they were divided into Lots, and he and his Crew thared them by throwing Dice, the higheft Caft bes. - tng to choofe firft: When they had done, they Packed up their Goods in Casks, and buried them — £0 Shore in the Ifland of Princes, that they might ve Room for frefh Booty. In the mean Time it happened that a Turtle Sloop belonging to Jamaica tame in there, Rackham fent his Boat, and brought the Mafter on Board of him, and asking him feve- Tal Queftions, the Mafter informed him, that War With Spain had been proclaimed in Samaica ; and that the Time appointed by the general Pardon for ryrates to furrender, in order to receive the Be- Upon OPTRA OE VEU EW EOS (_ 282.) 5: Upon. this Intelligence Rackham and his Crew fuddenly changed their Minds, and were refolved to take the Benefit of the Pardon by a {peedy Sur- render ; wherefore, inftead of ufing the Matter ily as the poor Man expetted, they made him feveral ‘Prefents, defiring him to fail back to Jamaica, and acquaint the Governor they were willing to fur- render, provided he would give his Word and ho- nour they fhould have the Benefit of the Pardon > which, as extenfive as it was, they apprehended “they were not intitled to, becaufe they had rum away in Defiance of it at Providence. They defired the Mafter alfo to return with the Governor’s An fwer, affuring him he fhould be no Lofer by the Voyage. The Mafter very willingly undertook the Com: miffion, and arriving at Jamaica, delivered his Metf- fage to the Governor, according to his Inftru&ions 5 but it happened that the Mafter of the King/tom, with his Paffengers, being come to Jamaica, ha ¢ acquainted the Governor with the Pyracies 0 Vane and Rackam, before the Turtler got thither, __ who was attually fitting out twoSloops, which weré now juft ready, in purfuit of them, fo that the Governor was gery glad to difcover, by the Turt- ler’s Meflage, where Rackam was to be found. d The two Sloops, well mann’d, accordingly faile out, and found Rackam in the Station where oe Turtler had defcribed him, but altogether in Di order, and quite unprepared, either for Sailing o for Fight, moft of his Sails being on Shore erected into Tents, and his Decks lumber’d with Goods ? he happen’d to be on Board himfelf, tho” moft 0 his Men were athore, and feeing the two Sloops 4° - a Diftance, bearing towards him, he obferved chem with his Glafs, and fancied he faw on Board fom’ thing like Preparatiois for fighting. This Wee what he did not expet, for he look’d for no Oy ( 283 ) My, and while he was in Doubt and Sufpence a= bout them, they came fo near that they began to fire. X He had neither Time nor Means to prepare for Defence, fo that there was nothing to be done but to run into his Boat, and efcape to the Shore, which he did accordingly with the few Hands he had with him, leaving the two Women on Board to be taken by the Enemy. The Sloops feized the Ship Kingffon, mann’d her, and brought her into Yamaica, having ftill a great Part of her Cargoe left; when the arrived, the Mafter of her fell to examining what part of the Cargoe was loft, and what left; he fearched alfo for his Bills of Lading and Cockets, but they were all deftroyed by Rackam; fo that the Ship being freighted by feveral Owners, the Mafter could not tell whofe Property was faved, and whofe loft, till he had frefh Bills of Parcels of each Owner from England. There was one remarkable Piece of good Luck which happened in this Affair; there were, amongft other Goods, fixty Gold Watches on Board, and thirty of Silver; the Pyrates divided the Silver Watches, but the Gold being packed up amongft fome Bale Goods, were never difco- Vvered by them, and the Mafter, in fearching, found - them ail fafe. In the mean Time Rackam and his Crew lived in the Woods, in very great Sufpence what to do With themfelves; they had with them Ammuni- tion and {mall Arms, and alfo fome of the Goods, fuch as Bales of Silk Stockings, and laced Hats, With which, it is fuppofed, they intended to make themfelves fine ; they had alfo two Boats and a Canoe. ae , Being divided in their Refolutions, ' Rackam with fix more determined to take one of the Boats, and Make the beft of their Way for the Ifland of Provi- dence ir Oe POON es BAU Aer WA SSD a (284) ‘dence, and there claim the Benefit of the King’s. Pardon, which they fancied they might be intitled to, by reprefenting, that they were carried away “by Vane, againft their Wills. Accordingly they put fome Arms, Ammunition and Provifion, int the beit Boat, and alio fome of the Goods, and fo fet Sail. They firft made the Ifland of Pizes, from thence got over to the North-Side of Cuba, where they deftroyed feveral Spanifh Boats and Launces 5 one they took, which being a ftout Sea Boat, they © fhifted themfelves and their Cargoe into her, and fank their own, and then ftretched over to the Ifland of Providence, where they landed fafely a- bout the Middle of A44y 1719, where demanding the King’s Pardon, the Governor thought fit to al- low it them, and Certificates were granted to them accordingly. 3 Here they fold their Goods, and fpent the Mo- ney merrily; when all was gone, fome ingaged themfelves in Privateers, and others in trading ~ Veilels. : - . : Party ; but finding them not inclined, they gavé them a Boat to row themfelves afhore, ordering them to give their Service to Haman, and to teil him, they would fend him his Sloop again when they had done with it. ae Rackham and Anne Bonny, both bore a great Spleen to one Kichard Turnleyy whotn Anne had ask’d to be a Witnels to the Writing, which Yames Bonny her Husband, was to give to Rackam, by which {he was to be refigned to him; Turnley réfuled his Hand - upon that Occafion, and was the Perfon' who ac+. quainted the Governor with the Story, for which they vowed Revenge againft him. He was gone from Providence a turtling before they made theit — Efcape, and they knowing what Ifland he was up on, made to the Place. They faw the Sloop about a League from the Shore a fifhing, and went 4 board with fix Hands ; but Turaley, with his Boys by good Luck, happened to be afhore falting fome wild Hogs they killed the Day before; they in- quired for him, and hearing where he was, rowed athore in Search of him. pp ara e ; Turnley from the Land faw the Sloop boarded, and obferved the Men afterwards making for the Shore, and being apprehenfive of Pyrates; which, are very common in thofe Parts, he, with his Boys fled into a neighbouring Wood. The Surf was ve- ry great, fo that they could not bring the Boat to Shore; they waded up to the Arm-Pits, and " Turnley, peeping through the Trees, faw them bring ‘ Arms on Shore: Upon the whole, not liking thes? Appearance, he, with his Boy, lay fhug in thé Buthes. ‘ i : vi, oh gee: ee When they had looked about and could not fee him, they hollow’d, and call’d him by his Name but he not appearing, they thought it Time lot to look for him in fuch a Wildernefs, and there? fore they returned to their Boat, but rowed ag? roWwe pack “ihe € 289 ) back to the Sloop, and took away the Sails, and feveral other Things. They alfo carried away wich them three of the Hands, viz. Richard Connor the Mate, ¥ohn Davis, and Fohn Howel, but rejected David Sopard the fourth Hand, tho” he had ‘been an’ old experienced Pyrate, becaufe he was lame, and difabled by a Wound he had formerly re- ceived. When they had done thus much, they cut down the Main-Maft, and towing the Veflel into deep Water, funk her, having firft put David Som- rd into a Boat to fhift for himfelf; he made Shift to get afhore, and after fome Time, haying . found out Turnley, he told him, that Rackam and Mary Stead were determined, if they could have found him, to have whipp’d him to Death, ashe leard them vow with many bitter Oaths and Im- Precations; for whipping was the Punifhment the Governor had threatened her with by his Infor- Mation. : From thence they ftretch’d over to the Bury Manas, plundering all the Sloops they met, and itrengthening their Company’ with feveral additio- nal Hands, and fo went on till they were taken and executed at Port Royal, as as been told in the Be Vonina” veemitic3: guid be About this Time, the Governor, in Conjunéion With fome Fattors then refiding at Providence, thought fit to freight fome Veffels foratrading . Voyage ; accordingly the Batchelor’s Adventure, a Schooner, Captain Henry White, Commander ;, the ancafter Sloop, Captain William Greenway, Comman- st, the Aay Sloop, Captain John Augur, Commaa- der, of which, lait David Soward was Owner, Cit having been given him by fome Pyrates his for- Mer Affociatés) in which he alfo fail’d this Voy- 8Se, were fitted out with a Cargo of Goods and Bec relis 0 ae Mors ( 290 ) Merchandizes, bound for Port Prince on the Ifland of Cuba. The Governor thought it advifeable, for the Benefit of the Inhabitants of Providence, to fettle 2 Correfpondence with fome Merchants at Port Princes firft, in order’ to procure frefh Provifions, there being fcarce any upon the Ifland at the Gover- nor’s firft Arrival; and there being at Port Princé great Pienty of Cows and Hogs, he propofed to get a fuficient Number of each, to ftock the Ifland for Breed, that the People for the future, might have frefh Provifion of their own. ' They fet Sail on Sunday the fifth of Oétobers 1718; the next Day they arrived at an Iland known by the Name of Green Key, lying South, South-Eaft from Providence, in the Degree of 23, and 40.North Latitude, being diftance about twen- ty five Leagues; they caft Anchor, in order to wait for Morning to carry them thro’ fome Rocks and Shoals which lay in their Way, and fome went afhore to try to kill fomething for Supper» before it fhould be dark ; they expected to meet ¥ fome wild Hogs, for, fome Time before, one 30- * Seph Bay and one Sims, put two Sows and a Boat into the faid Ifland; for they living at that Time at Providence, and being. continually vifited by Py- rates, were always plundered of all their freih Provifions; wherefore, they thought of fettling 4 Breed upon Green Key, that they might have Rée- courfe to in Time of Neceffity. This Ifland is about nine Miles in Circumfe- "rence, and about three Miles broad in the widef Place; it is overgrown with wild Cabbage an Palmuta Trees, and great Variety of other Herbs and Fruits, fo that there is Plenty of Food ‘for the Nourifhment of fuch Animals; but thé “Trees lying fo clofe together, makes it but bad ERE 24S : fers ‘3 : : . Hunting, : . € 298), Hunting, fo that they kill’d but one Hog, which; Owever was of a monftrous Size. The Hunters returned on, Board their Ships -8ain before Seven, having firft divided the Hog, nd {ent part on Board each Veifel for Supper that Night. After Supper, Captain Greenway and . Captain IVhite came on Board of Captain Augur’s loop, in order to confult together, what Time to fail, and being all of Opinion, that if they Weigh’d Anchor betwixt the Hours of ten and fleven, it would be Day before they would come Up with the Shoals; they agreed upon that Hour for fetting Sail, and fo return’d to their own Veffels, Soon after, Phineas Bunch, and Dennis Macarty,with 2 great many others, came from White’s Sloop on “card of Augur’s, their Pretence was, that they “ime to fee Richard Turnley and Mr. James Carr, Who had formerly been a Midihipman in the Rofe Man of War under Captain Whitney, and being a Steat Favourite of Governor Rogers, he had ap- Pointed him Supercargo this Voyage. They defi- ‘ed to be treated with a Bottle of Beer, for they knew Mr. Car had fome that was very good, his Care, which had been put on Board, in Srder to make Prefents of, and. to treat the Spa- mh Merchants with... ' As it was not fufpetted they had any Thing lfe in View, Mr. Carr readily went down, and ‘Ought up a Couple.of Bottles of Beer: They fat ‘Pon the Poop with Captain Augur in their Come ns and were drinking their Beer; before the fond Bottle was out, Bunch and Macarty began b, rattle, and talk with great Pleafure, and much pevfting of their former Exploits.when they had One erates crying up a Pyrate’s Life to be the We y Life for a Man of any, Spirit. While they Te Tunning on in this Manner, Bunch ona fuds Mors U2 | den ease” 70ST TOE, EN AA OE VEU EE ES : C292 ) | den ftarted up, and fore damn him, he would be Captain of that Veffel; Augur anfwered him the Veffel did not -want a Captain, for he'was able to command her himfelf} which feem’d to put an End to the Difcourfe for that Time. Soon after, Bunch began to tell what bright Arms they had on Board their Sloop ; upon which, one of Augur’s Men handed up fome of their Cut- lathes which had been clean’d that Day ; among them was Mr. Car7’s Silver-hilted Sword; Bunch feem’d to admire the Sword, and ask’d whofe it was; Mr. Carr made Anfwer it belong’d to him; Bunch replied it was a very handfome one, and drawing it out, march’d about the Poop, flourifh- ing it over his Head, and telling Mr. Carr he would return it to him as foon as he had done, with it : At the fame Time he began to vapour again, and to brag of his former Pyracies, and coming neat Mr. Car, ftruck him with the Sword; Turnley bid him take Care of what he did, for that Mr. Carr would not take fuch Ufage. nehad As they were difputing upon this Matter, Der- nis Macarty ftole off, and with fome of his Affo- ciates feiz’d upon the great Cabin where all the Arms lay: At the fame Time feveral of the Me, began to fing a Song, with thefe Words, Did not you promife me, that you would marry me (which it- feems was the Signal agreed upon among the Con- fpirators for feizirig the Ship) Bunch no foonet heard them, but he cried out aloud by G—d that willl, for Iam Parfon, and ftruck Mr. Ca’7 again feveral Blows with his own Sword; Mr. Cart and Turaley both feiz’d him, and they began t? firuggle, when Dennis Macarty, with feveral others return’d from the Cabin with each a Cutlafh i? one Hand,’ and a foaded Piftol in the other, 204 running up to them faid, Whar do the Gouernor’s DS offer to refift ? And beating Tuynley and Carr with a, Ow helt {a (293) their Cutlathes, threaten’d to fhoot them: At the fame Time firing their Piftols clofe’ to their Theeks, upon which Turnley and. Carr begg‘d their lves. : ‘When they were thus in Poffeflion of the Vef- fel, they haled Captain Greenway, and defired him to come on Board about earneft Bufinefs: He, knowing nothing of what had pafs’d, takes his | Boat, and only with two Hands rows on Board of iq lem ; as foon ashe was come, Dennis Adacarty leads him into the Cabin, and, as foon as he was there, lays hold of him, telling him he was now a Pri- foner, and muft {ubmit : He offered to make fome Refiftance ; upon which, they told him all Re- fiftance would be vain, for his own Men were in the Plot ; and, indeed, he faw the two Hands Which row’d, him aboard now armed, and joining With the Confpirators; wherefore he thought it Was Time to fubmit. - As foon as this was done, they fent fome Hands °n Board-to feize his Sloop, or. rather to acquaint his Men with what had been done, for they ex- Peted to meet with no Refiftance, many of them being in the Plot, and the reft, they fuppofed, Not very averfe to it: After which, they decoy’d Captain White on Board, by the fame Stratagem they ufed to Greenway, and likewife fent on Board his Sloop, and found his Men, one and all, well difpofed for the Defign, and what was moft re- Markable was,. that Captain:Augur feeing how hings were going, joined with them, fhewing him~ felf as well inclined for pyrating as the worit Of them. Thus they made themfelves Mafters of the three Veflels wich very little Trouble. The next Thing to be done was to refolve how to difpofe. of thole Who were not of their Party ; fome were for killing John Turnley, but the Majority carried it for mar- Sa U3 rooning, — “294 ) rooning, that he might be ftarved, and die like a Dog, as they calledits their great Spleen to him _ was, becaufe he was the Perfon who had pilot- ed the Governor into Providence. ~ Accordingly Turaley, with fobn Carr, Thomas Rich, and fome others, were ftripp’d naked, and tumbled over the Veliel’s Side into a Boat which lay along- fide ; the Oars were all taken out, and they lett them nothing to work therfelves afhore with but an old Paddle, which, at other Times ferv’d to fieer the Boat, and fo they commanded them to be gone. —— However, they made fhift to get fafe afhore to the Ifland, which, as we obferved before, was quite uninhabited. The next Morning Dennis Aacarty, with feveral others, went on Shore, and told them they muft come on Board again, and they would give them fome Clothes to put on. They fancied the Pyrates began to repent of the hard Ufage they had given them, and were willing to return upon fuch al Errand; but when they got on Board again, they found their Opinion of the Pyrates ‘good Nature was very ill grounded, for they began with beat- ing them, and did it as if it were in Sport, one having a Boatfwain’s Pipe, the reft beating them” till he piped Belay. . — ~The true Defign of bringing them on Board 4- gain was to make them difcover where fome Things lay, which they could not readily find, as parti cularly Mr. €urr’s Watch and Silver Snuff-Box, but , he was foon obliged to inform them in what Cor- ner of the Cabin they lay, and there they were found, with fome Journals.and other Books, which they knew how to make no other Ufe of, but by turning into Cartridges—-Then they began tO queftion Thomas Rich about a Gold Watch which had ouce been feen in his Poffeffion on Shore at Pre vidence,; but he protefted that it belonged to oy tail _ €at, for they : ( 295 ) fain Gale, who was Commander of the Guard-Ship Called the Delicia, to which he then belonged ; but his Proteftations would have availed him little, had i not been that fome on Board who telonged alfo. to the Delicia knew it to be true, which put an Nd to his Beating; and fo they were all dif Charged from their Punifhment for the ’prefent. . Some Time after, fancying the Pyrates to be mM better Humour, they begg’d’ for fomething to had none of them had any Nourith- Ment that Day or the Night before; but all the Anfver they received was, that fuch Dogs fhould Rot ask fuch Queftions: In the mean Time, fome of the Pyrates\ were very bufy endeavouring to Perfuade Captain Greenway to engage with them, A they knew him to be an excellent Artift, but was obftinate and would not; then it was pro- pofed what thould be done with him, and the ord went for marrooning, which was oppofed by Ome, becaufe he was a Bermudian, meaning, that might perhaps fwim away, or fwim on board “us Veffel again, for the Bermudians are all ex- Sellent Swimmers; ‘but as he reprefented, that he Could not hurt them by his Swimming, he ob- ‘tind the Favour for himfelf and the other Off- fers, to be fet afhore with Turaley, Carr, and Rich. “Accordingly they were put into the fame Boat Without*Oars, to the Number of eight, and were Ordered to make the beft: of their Way. on Shore, ' The Pyrates, the next Day; having examined all their Velfels, and finding that Greenway’s Sloop was ‘the Sloop, it is likely Rot fit for their Purpofe, fhifted. every Thing out f it; thofe that were fent on Shore could fee ae thence what’ they were doing, and when ey faw them row off, Greenway fwam on Board ,-to fee. whether they had them. They perceiy’d him, lefe any Thing behind 1G; ee eet and , ( 296) and) fancied, he repented his refufing to join with them, and was come to do it now;, wherefore fome of them.return’d back.to the Sloop, to {peak to him, but they found him of the fame Opinion he was in before; however he wheedled. them. into fo much good Humour, that they told him he might have his Sloop,again, in which, indeed, they had left nothing except an old Main-Sail, and old Fore-Sail, four {mall Pieces of Jrifh Beef, in at old Beef Barrel, and about twenty Bifcuits, with a broken.Bucket. which! was ufed to-draw Water in, telling him -that,he. and the reft muft not go on Board till they were. fail’d. Greenway {wam afhore again to give Notice to his Brothers in, Diftrefs, of what had pafs’d; the fame Afternoon Bunch with feveral. others went on Shore, carrying with them fix Bottles of Wine and fome Bifcuits. Whether this. was done to tempt Green way again, or no, is hard to fay ; for tho? they talk’d to him a great Deal,. they! drank all. the Wine themfelves to the laft Bottle, and then they gave each of the poor Creatures a Glefs a-piece, with a Bit of Bifcuit, and immediately after ‘fell a beating them, and fo went on Board. _ ; While they were on Shore, there came in 2 Turtle which belong’d to. one Thomas Bennet of Providence, whereof, one Benjamin Hutchins was Ma- fier; they .foon laid: hold of her, for fhe went ex- cellently well; Hutchins was reputed an extraor- dinary good Pilot among thofe Iflands, wherefore they tempted him’ to engage with them ; at firft he refufed, -but-rather than be maroon’d, he af- terwards confented, | It was now the ninth of Ofcber, and they were juft preparing to fail, when they tent on Shore, ordering the condemn'd Méalefattors to come on Board of the Lancefter, that was Greenmay’s Sloop > they did fo in the. little Boat they went on Shore 'f ‘Piece of Cable, which they ftrung into Rope Yarns, (297°) Shore in, by the Help of the fame Paddle; they found feveral of the Pyrates there, who’ told them that they gave them ‘that Sloop to return to Pro. vidence, tho” they let. them have no more Stores than what were named before; they bad them take the Fore-Sail, and bend it for a Gib, and furl it clofe down to the Boltfprit, and to furl the Main-Sail_clofe up upon the Boom: They did as they -were order’d, for they knew there was. no difputing whether it was, right or wrong. Soon after, another Detachment came on Board, among which were Buach and Dennis Macarty, who being either mad or drunk, fell upon them; beat- ing them, and cutting. the Rigging and Sails to- Pieces with their Cutlathes, and commanding them Rot to fail, till they fhould hear from them. again,’ . curfing and damning, if they did, they would put them all to Death, if ever they met them again ; and fo they went off, carrying. with them the Boat, which they. fent them firft afhore in, and Jad away. 9c cnond a _ They left them in this miferable Condition with- Sut Tackle to go their Voyage, and without a Boat to get on Shore, and having ‘Nothing in View but to perifh for Want; but as Self-Prefer- . Yation put them upon exerting themfelves, in Or- der. to get out of this deplorable State, they be- §an to rummage and -fearch the Veffel thro’ every Hole and Corner, to-fee if nothing was left which Might be of ufe to them ; and. it happen’d. by Chance that they. found an old. Hatchet, with Which they cut. fome. Sticks fharp to: ferve for Marlenfpikes; they alfo cut out feveral other Things, to ferve inftead of fuch Tools as are ab- Adlutely necefiary on Board a Ship. » , When they had proceeded thus far, every Man egan to work ‘as hard as he could; they cut.a and (298) and fell to mend their Sails with all poffible Expe- dition; they alfo made’a Kind of Fithing-Lines of the faid Rope-Yarns; and bent fome Nails crooked to ferve for Hooks ; but as they were de- “ftitute of a:Boat; as well for the Ufe of Fishing as for going on Shore, they :refolved to make a Bark Log, that is, to lay two or three Logs to- gether, and tie’ them clofe, upon which two of three’"Men may fit very fafely’in fmooth Water. ‘As foon as this was done, fome Hands went on Shore, upon’ one of the faid Logs (for they made two of them) who employ’d themfelves in cutting wild Cabbage, gathering Berries, and a Fruit which the Seamen call Pricklie Pears, for Food, while fome others went a Fifhing upon another,— Thofe who went afhore alfo carried the old Bucket with them, fo that whilft fome were bufy in gathering ‘Things to ferve for Provifion, one Hand was con- ‘ftantly employ’d, in bringing frefh Water aboard in the faid Bucket, which was tedious Work, con- fidering how little could be brought at a ‘Time, and that the Sloop lay near a Mile from the Shore. LS case When they had employ’d themfelves thus, for about four or five Days, they brought their Sails and Tackle into fuch Order, having alfo a little Water, Cabbage, and other Things on Board, that they thought it was Time'to venture to-fail; ac “cordingly they weigh’d their Anchor, and putting out all the Sail they had, got out to the Harbour’s , — Mouth, when to their great Terror and Surprizé, they faw the Pyrates coming in again. © They were much frighten’d at the Pyrates un- expected Return, becaufe of the-Threatnings they had ufed to them at parting, not to fail without further Orders; wherefore they tack’d about, 2? ran as clofe into the Shore as they could, ther throwing out their Bark Logs, they all put sane Ca99) felves upon them, and made to Land, as faft as they could work ; but. before they quite reach’d it, the Pyrates got fo near that they fired at them, but were too far to do Execution; ‘however, they purfued them afhore; the poor Fugitives imme- diately took to the Woods, and for greater Se- curity climb’d up fome Trees, whofe Branches Were very thick, and by that Means concealed themfdlves, The Pyrates not finding them, foon Yetarn'd to their Boat, and row’d on board the deferted Sloop, whofe Maft and Boltfprit they cut away, and towing her into deep Water, funk her ; after which, they made again’ for the Shore, — thinking that the Fugitives would shave been come Cut of their lurking Holes, and that they fhould furprize them; but they continued ftilt on the Tops of their Trees and faw all that pafs’d, and therefore thought it fafeft to keep their Pofts. «The Pyrates not finding them, return’d to their Veffels,-and weighing their Anchors, fet fail, fteer- ing Eaftward: In the mean time, the poor Fugi- tives were in Defpair, for feeing their Veflel funk, they had fcarce any Hopes left of efeaping the Danger of perifhing upon that uninhabited Mland ; ‘there they lived eight Days, feeding upon Berries, nd Shell-Fifh, fuch as Cockles and Perriwinckles, fometimes catching a Stingrey, a Fifh refembling Mead or Thornback, which coming into Shoal Wa- ter, they could wade near them, and by the Help Of a Stick fharpen’d at the End, which they did by. rubbing it againft the Rock, (for they had Rot a Knite left amongft them) they ‘ftuck them ‘8 if it had been witha Spear. Tt muft be obferved, that they had no Means Of ftriking a Fire,oand therefore their Way of drefing this Fith was, by dipping it often in Salt Water, then laying b it in the Sun, till it became Poth hard and dry, and then they eat it. After ‘ SEEPS SEE aEEE ¢ 300 ) After paffing eight Days in this Manner, the Pyratesreturmd, and faw the poor Fugitives afhore, .who- according ‘to Cuftom made to the Woods; ‘but their Hearts:began to relent towards them, and fending afhore, they ordered a Man to go into the Woods fingle, to call out to them, and promife them. upon their Honour, if.they would appear, that they would give them Vittuals. and Drink, and not ufe them ill any more. Thefe Promifes, and the Hunger which Vinch’d them, tempted them to come forth, and accord- ingly they went on Board with them, and they were as good as their Words, for they gave them as much Beef and Bifcuit as they could eat, du- ring two or three Days they were on Board, but would not give them a Bit.to carry on Shore 3 they alfo gave them three jor four Blankets a- - mongft them, to cover their Nakednefs (for as “we obferved, they were quite naked) and let them have fome Needles and Thread, to make them into fome Form. : There was on Board one George Redding, an In- chabitant of Providence, who was taken out of the Turtle Sloop, and who was a: forced Man, being am ‘Acquaintance of Richard Turnley, and knowing, that he'was refolved to go afhore again, rather. than en- gage with the Pyrates, and hearing him fay, that they could find Food to keep them alive, if they had but Fire to drefs it, privately gave him 4 ‘Tinder-Box, with Materials in it for ftriking Fire, which, in his Circumftances, was a greater ‘Prefent than Gold or Jewels. - Soon after, the Pyrates put the Queftion t0 them, whether they would engage, or be put afhore? And they all agreed upon the latter * Upon which a Debate arofe amongft the Pyratess whether they fhould comply with their Requef or no? And at length it was agreed, that Greet way sf € 301 ) way and the other two Mafters fhould be kept Whether they would or no: And the reft, being five in Number, fhould be as the Pyrates exprefs’d it, have a fecond Refrefhment of the Varieties of the Ifland. - Accordingly Richard Turnley, Games Carr, Thomas Rich, Sohn Cox, and Yohn Taylor, were a fecond Time marooned, and the Pyrates as foon as they landed them, fail’d off, fteering Eaftward, till they came fo an Ifland call’d Pudden Point, near Long-Ifland in the Latitude of 24, where they cleaned their Veffels. ie ; _ In the mean Time Turnley and his Companions Made a much better Shift than they had ’ done before, his Friend George Redding’s Prefent being Of infinite Ufe to them, for they conftantly kept @ good Fire, with which they broil’d their Fith ; there were Plenty of Land Crabs and Snakes in the Ifland, which they could eat when they were drefs’d, and thus they’ pafs’d fourteen Days: At the End of which, the Pyrates made them ano- _ ther, Vifit, and they according to Cuftom made for the Woods, thinking that the Reafon of their Return muft be, in order to force them to ferve 8mongft them. Se re But here they were miftaken, for the Anger of thefe Fellows being over, they began to pity them, and came now with a Defign to fuccour them ; but going afhore, and not finding them,they knew they were hid for Fear : Neverthelefs, they left upon the Shore, where they knew they Would come, fome Stores which they intended in hark Fit of good Humour to. prefent them ovUh, ; The poor Iflanders were got to their Retreat, € Tops of the Trees, and faw the Pyrates go off; 3pon which they ventured down, and going to ‘Me Water-fide, were agreeably furprized to find Coa Ss : a {mall a fmall Cask of Flower, of betwixt twenty and thirty Pounds, about a Bufhel of Salt, two Bottles of Gunpowder, feveral Bullets, befides a Quantity of {mall Shot, with a Couple of Mufquets, a very good Axe, and alfo a Pot and a Pan, and three Dogs, which they took in the Turtle Sloop, which Dogs are bred to Hunting, and generally the Sloops which go Turtling, carry fome of them, as they are very ufeful in tracing out the wild Hogs ; befides all thefe, there were a dozen Horn- handled Knives, of that Sort which are ufually carried to Guiney. gee They carried all thefe Things. into the Wood, to that Part where they had their frefh Water, and where they ufually kept, and immediately went to work with their Axe ; fome cutting down Bows, and making Poles, fo that four of them were employ’d in building a Hut, while Richard Turnley taking the Dogs and a Gun, went a hunting, he underftanding that Sport very well. He had not been gone long before he kill'd a large Boar, which he brought home to his Companions, who fell to cutting it up, and fome they drefs’d for their Dinner, and the reft they falted, for ano- ther Time. Thus they lived, as they thought, very happy, in refpe€&t to their former Condition; but after four Days, the Pyrates made them another Vifit, for they wanted to fill fome Casks with Water - It happen’d when they came in, that Turaley was gone a Hunting, and the reft all bufy at fome Work, {fo that. they, did not fee them, till they juft. came into the Wood upon them ; feeing the Hut, one of them in Wantonnefs fet it on Fire, and it was burnt to the Ground; and they @P~ pear’d inclined to do Mifchief, when Richard Turn dey knowing nothing of the Matter, happened 1? return from Hunting, with a fine Hog upon his. Back (A VAP WSOPE R RU SO a EAB OTP € 303.) Back, as much as he could carry ; he was imme- diately furrounded by the Pyrates, who feized up- on the frefh Meat, and which feemed to put them Into better Humour, they made Richard Cox carry ; it'down to their Boat, and when he had done, they gaye him a Bottle of Rum to carry back to his Companions to drink their Healths, telling him, that they might get home if they could, or if they ftaid there, they never would trouble them any more. _ They were, indeed, as good as their Words, for failing away immediately,they made for Long Ifland, and coming up toward the Salt Ponds there, they faw at a Diftance in the Harbour, three Veffels at an Anchor, and fuppofing them to be either Ber- mudas or New-York Sloops lying there to take in Salt, they bore down upon them. with all the Sail they could make, expeéting a good Booty. The Turtle Sloop taken from Benjamin Hutchins, was by much the beft Sailor; however, it was almoft dark before fhe came up with them, and then coming clofe alongfide of one of them, fhe gave a Broad- fide, with a Defign to board the next Minute, but received fuch a Volley of fmall Shot in return, as killed and wounded a great. many of the Py- rates, and the reft, in great Surprize and Fright, jumped overboard, to fave themfelves by {wim- ming ashore. The Truth on’t is, thefe Sloops proved to be Spanifh Privateers, who obferving the Pyrates to bear down upon them, prepared themfelves for -“AS&ion: The Commander in Chief of thefe three Privateers: was one who was called by the. Name of Turn Joe, becaufe he had once privateer’d on the Englifh Side ; he had alfo been a Pyrates and now -atted by Vertue of a Commiffion from a Spanifh Go- -Vernor. He was by Birth an Jrifhman, 2 bold en-. terprifing Fellow, and was afterwards killed in an EUEP UE URE LE VEUT VEL ES SMS We ESR RAR Ren cya eye C304 ) | an Engagement with one Yolo Bonnavee, Captain of Privateer belonging to Yamaica. But to return to our Story : The Sloop was ta- ken, and on board her was found, defperately wounded Phineas Bunch, who was the Captain, ——- By and by a fecond of the Pyrate Sloops came up; the heard the Volley, and fuppofed it to be fired by Bunch, when he boarded one of the Sloops ; the came alfo alongfide of one of the Spaniards, and received the Welcome that was given to Bunch, and fubmitted as foon. A little after, came ‘up the third, which was taken with the fame Eafe, and in the fame Manner, as many of the Pyrates as could fwim, jumping ‘over board to fave themfelves on Shore, there not being a Man loft on the Side of the Spaniards. — The next Day Ture Foe asked them many Que- ftions, and finding out that feveral amongft them had been forc’d Men, he, with the Confent of the other Spanifh Officers, ordered all the Goods to be taken out of a Spanifh Launce, and putting fome of the wounded Pyrates into the faid Launce, with fome Provifion, Water, and other Liquors, gave it to the forced Men, to carry them to Provi- dence, : Accordingly George Redding, Thomas Betty, Matthew Betty, Benjamin Hutchins, with fome others, fet Sail, and in eight and forty Hours arrived in the Harf- bour of Providence. be They went on Shore immediately, and acquaint- ed the Governor with every Thing that had pafs’d, from the Time of their fetting out, acquainting him, that Phineas Bunch, who was one of the chie Authors of all the Mifchief, was on board the Lauyce, the Governor, with fome others, went and examined him, and he confeffed all, wherefore there was no Occafion for a Trial ; and as he had been pardoned before, and it was neceflary to fee a = om 8 him and his Companions. C 305. J fome {peedy Example, it was refolved that he Rhould ‘be executed the next Day, but it was pre- Vented by his dying that Night of his Wounds. : They alfo informed the Governor of the Con- dition of Turnley, Car, and the reft, who were ma- Tooned by the Pyrates upon Green Key Ifland ; up- - on which the Governor fent for one Yohn Sims, a Molotto: Man, who had a two Maf Boat in the Harbour of Providence, very fit for failing , and lay. ing fome 'Provifions into the faid Boat, ordered him to get-five or fix Hands, and to. fail for Green Key, ‘1 order, to bring off the five Men there ma- Yooned. ; ' Sims accordingly made the beft of his Way, and - failing out in the Morning, arrived. at Green Key the Next Day towards Evening. The poor People on Shore faw them,.and: {uppofing them to be fome Of the Pyrates returned, thought it beft to take to the Wood and hide, not knowing what Humour they might be in now. Sees . Sims and his Ship-Mates carried fome Provifion . SnShore, not knowing but they might want, and fearched about, and calling out to them by their Names, After wandering about\fome Time, they Came to the Place where the Fire was conftantly ‘Kept ; at perceiving which, they fancied they muft be thereabouts, and that it would be beft to wait ‘for them there, and accordingly they fat them down, laying the Provifions near them. | Turnley, ‘who was ¢limbed to the Top of a Free juft by, faw ‘them, and obferved their Motions, and fancied ‘they were no Enemies who were bringing them Provifions, and, looking more earneftly, he knew Sims the Molotto, whom he was very well acquaint ed with \at ‘Providence ; upon which he called him, ‘Who defired him to-come down, telling: him the Comfortable News, that he was come to the Relief “Vou. Il. << % : Turney IAP Pa Fae NI WE WA WI BAS | eee ae : Turnley made what Hafte He could to the Bot tom, and as foon as he was down; fummoned his Companions, who were climbed to the Top of fome- neighbouring Trees, being in Hafte to commumi- cate the glad Tidings to them + being all togethers the Molotto related to them the Hiftory of what had happened to the Pyrates. That Night they fupped comfortably together upon the Provifion brought afhore; but fo ftrangé en Effet has Joy, that fcarce one of them flept a Wink that Night, as they declared. The next Tay they agreed to go a Hunting, in order t? get fomething frefh to carry off with them, and ‘were fo fucce(sful, that they killed three fine Hogs When they return’d, they made the beft of theif Way on Board, carrying with them all their U~ tenfils, and {et Sail for Providence, whither they’ar ‘rived in three Days} it being now juft feven Weeks from the Time of their being firft fet on Shore. by. the Pyrates. oie 8 ; “The Governor, in the mean Time, was fitting out a Sloop to fend for Long Ifland, in® order t? take thofe Pyrates who had faved themfelves neat the Salt Ponds there, which Sloop was now ready to fail, and put under the Command ofBenjami Horncygold 5 Turnley and his Companions embarked on Board of her, and Care was taken to get as ma- “ny Menas they could, who were entire Strange’> § tothe Pyrates. bet , When they arrived at the faid IMland, they run ‘jn-pretty near ‘the Shore, keeping but few > Hlands on Deck, ‘that it might look like a tradin’ : Welfel, and thofe Men that were quite unknow? to - the Pyrates. ~The Pyrates feeing them, came only two oF three - @f them near the Shore, the reft lying in Ambuth, ‘pot without Hopes of finding an Opportunity feize the Sloop. The Sloop fent her Boat out ds é ware? (€ 307 ) Wards the Shore, with Orders to lie off at a little Diftance, as if fhe was afraid: Thofe in Ambuth feeing the Boat fo near, had not Patience to ftay any longer, but flocked to the Water Side, calling Out to them to come on Shore, and help them for they were poor Ship-wreck’d Men, almoft pe- tith’d for Want. Upon which the Boat row’d back again to the Sloop. ‘Upon fécond Thoughts they fent her off again With two Bottles of Wine, a Bottle of Rum, and fome Bifcuits, and fent another Man, who was a Stranger to thofe afhore, with Orders to. pafs for Mafter of the Veffel. As foon as they approach’d them, the Pyrates call’d to them as before, ‘beg- ging them, for God’s fake to come on Shore ; did fo, and‘ gave them the Bifcuir, Wine Bch Rum, which he faid he brought afhore on purpofe to comfort them, béecaufe his Men told him they Were caft away. ‘They were very inquifitive to, know where he was bound ; he told them, to New- York, and that he came in there to take in Salt : They eagneftly intreated him to take them on Board, and carry them as Paffengers to New-York, : pay. being about fixteen in Number, he anfwered, le wagpaftaid he had not Provifion fufficient for fo great a. Number; but that he would go on Board and ovér-hall his Provifion, and, if they . Pleafed, fome of them might go with him, and fee how his Stock ftood, that at leaft he would tarry fome of them, and leave fome Refrefhment for the reft, till they could be fuccoured another Way, but that he hoped they would make him fome Recompence when they fhould arrive at New Tork. : é : - They feemed wonderfully pleafed with his Pro- pofal, and promifed to make him ample Satisfacti- on for all the Charges he fhould be at pretending *ohaye good Friends and confiderable Effects in : Sor aevaral ‘fion to goa privateering, riven upon the Rocks to the Southward of Gree# Ve wrt LDA ERT BUN EE VA UI SOA BY DB EL SP VELEN EUR EV EV EVEL. a feveral Parts of America. Accordingly he took fe- veral of them with him in the Boat, and‘ as foon. as they got on Board, he invited them into the Cabin, where, to their Surprize, they faw Benja- min Horneygold,. formerly a Brother Pyrate ; but . what aftonifhed them more, was to fee Richard Turn- ley, whom they had lately marooried upon Greens Key; they were immediately furrounded by feve- ral with Piftols in their Hands, and clapped’ in Trons. : ea xt _ 8 foon as this was over, the Boat went om Shore again, and thofe in the Boat told the Py- fates, that the Captain would venture to carry them with what Provifion he had; at which they appeared much. rejoyced, and fo the reft were brought on’ Board, and Without much Trouble clapped. in Irons, as well as their'Companions, __ ‘The Sloop had nothing more to do, and there- fore fet Sail, and reaching Providence, delivered the _Pyrates all Prifoners into the Fort: A Court of Admiralty was immediately called, and they were all tried, and ten received Sentence of Death; the other fix were acquitted, it appearing that they were forced. ‘ The following nine were executed in the Manner. defcribed in the firft Volume, Sobn Augur,. William Cunningham, Dennis Macarty» William Lewis, Thomas Morris, George Bendal, William Morris, George Bendal, William Ling, and George Ro- gers. George Rounfavil was reprieved after he had been tied up, and juft going to be caft off, and was brought down to fee the Execution of the reft. __ But we cannot quit this Story without taking Notice of the’ Fate of this George Rounfavil. He work’d for fome Time afhore for his living, but afterwards ingaged himfelf with Captain Burghef* a pardoned Pyrate, who had received a Commil- It happened they were Key (309) Key land, and there they were beat to pieces 5 this Rounfauil, with five others, upon the firft Shock, ept into the Canoe, and were going off, when Burghefs fanding upon the Poop of his Veffel, call’d Out tohim, faying, Will you g0 away and leave me to Perifh in this Manner. Roynfavil begg’d his Compa- nions to put back, and take him in; but they anfwered, that thé reft would be as willing to fave ~ themfelves -as he, and of Confequence, fo many Would crowd into the Canoe as would fink it, Wherefore they would not ventisre it 3 upon which ‘e Jump’d into the Water, and fwam to the Veffel, and there petifhed with ‘his Friend fince he could BE Rd ee RO Re oe Pe BA WAS a) Se Oe Po hs € 310) 2A0S TSCRRAITEeReS E thall add here a few Particulars. (nat ment tioned in our firft Volume) of the famous Blackbeard, relating to his taking the South Carolin4 Ships, and infulting that Colony. This was at the Time that the Pyrates had obtained fuch a” Acquifition of Strength, that they were in 1? the Juftice of Laws, but of advancing their PoweFs and maintaining their Sovereignty} not over the Seas only, but to’ftretch their Dominions to the Plantations themfelyes, and the Governors theré< of, infomuch that when their Prifoners came 4° board their Captors Ships, the Pyrates freely own’¢ their Acquaintance with them, gag never endea- vour’d to conceal their Names, or Habitations, 45 if they had been Inhabitants of a legal Common World on the Foot of a free State ; and all judic!#" Aé&s went in the Name of Teach, under the T. itl@ of Commodore. oF All the Carolina Prifoners were lodg’d aboard the Commodore’s Ship, after being ftrittly €*4) “ $nin’d concerning the. Lading of their Veiffels, the Number and Condition of other Traders} the Harbour; when they thought they would £4! and whither bound: And the Enquiry was fo fo- Jemnly carried on, that the Pyrates fwore, tha Concern about préferving themfelves from the . wealth, and were refolved to treat with all th@ . t it fhould be Death for that Man that told a Ly’ p | and known to be a Man of géod Underftanding among the Carolinians, was offer’d, and the Gentle- man, himéfelf, was willing to leave a young Son’? _ the Hands of the Pyrates, till:he thould retur?s which he promis’d todo, though the Government Should refufe the Terms of bende crap ris Gadi ean Silay ue SY BYE USE : Mifchief, that he refolved to be revenged upom his Enemies at all Events, even tho’ he should give up his own Life, as a Sacrifice, to obtain thefe wicked Ends. -.-.. SOT; ae _ It is to be obferved, that Blackbeard, neverthe- lefs, as to his Pyracies, had. comply’d with the Proclamation, and thereby fatisfied the Law, and having a Certificate thereof from under the Hand of his Excellency, he could not be profecuted for any of thofe Crimes committed heretofore, be- caufe they were wiped off by the faid Proclama- tion of Pardon: And as-to condemning the French Martinico Man that Blackbeard brought. in to North Carolina afterwards, the Governor proceeded judi- cially upon her.. He called. a Court of Vice Ad- miralty, by virtue of his,Commiffion, at which four of the Grew {wore they found the Ship at Sea with no Perfon on board her, fo the Court con- demn’d her, as any other Court muft havé done, and the Cargo was difpofed of according to Law. _ As to the fecret Expedition from Virginia, ut dertaken by. the Governor and the two Captains of Men of War, they had their fecret Views it it! The Men of War had lain up thefe ten Months whilft the Pyrates infefted the Coaft, and did great Mifchief, for which, "tis likely, they might have — ‘ been called to an Account ; but the Succefs of the Enterprize againth Teach, alias Blackbeard, pets haps prevented fuch Enquiry, tho’ I am at a Lofs to know what A&s of Pyracy he had committed after this Surrender to the Proclamation; thé French Ship was lawfully condemned, as has bee? faid before; and if he had committed any Depre- dations amongft the Planters, as they feem’d t? complain of, they were not upon the high Deed but either in the River, or on Shore, and cou! not come within the Jurifdiction of the Adm salty, nor under any Laws of Pyracy. The ee ; ve 4 “any Male Praétice ; a C 3t9 3 Vernor of Virginia found his Intereft in the Affir? for he fent, at the fame time, a Force by Land, and feiz?d Confidérable Effetts of Blackbeard’s in Eden’s' Province, which was certainly a new Thin for the Governor of one. Province, whofe Commif. fion was limited to that Jurifdi&tion, to exercife Authority in another Government, and the Gover- nour himfelf upon the Spot. Thus was poor Mr, Eden infulted and abufed on all Sides, without ha- {ing the Power of doing himfelf Juftice, and af ‘Wrting his lawful Rights eS In fine, to do Juftice to Governor Eden’s Chac piter; who is fince-dead, there did not appear som any Writings or Letters found in Blackbeara’s Sloop, or from any ‘other Evidence whatfoever, that the {aid Governor was concerned at all in ny Ma but on. the contrary, that du- Ting his. Continuance in. that Poft,. Re was on nour’d and beloved by “his Colony, for his Up- "ighenefs, Probity,\ and prudent Conduét in his Adminiftration ; what Affairs were carried on pri« e ~ ~Yately by his then Secretary I know not; he died 2 few Days after Blackbeara’s Deftruétion, and no nquiry.was made’; perhaps there might be no Occafion for it, OF PR eae Pe RUA Pr a Pe NP SN Sk Of Major BONNET. HAVE. but few Words to add to Major Ben- “net's Life and Aétions ; when ‘his Diffolutio® drew nigh, all his Refolution fail’d him, and! 2® Fears and Agonies fo wrought upon him, that be was fcarce fenfible when he came to the Place of © ‘Execution. ~ His’ ‘piteous ‘Behaviour under Sen- tence, very much’ affetedothe People of the Pro- ‘vince, particularly “the Women, and great ‘Apphi- | “cation ‘was made to the Governor for faving his ‘Life, but in vain; not that his’ Excellency Colo- Snel Fobafon pleated himfelf in’ A&ts of fevere Juftices but he knew his Duty too well «to be mifled bY the Tears ard’ Prayers 6f weak and inconfiderat€ ‘People, when the publick»Good, as well vas bis “own Honour, “food in Queftion. “Had not Bonnet efcap’d out of his Keeper's Hand, after he ws taken, and occafioned the Death of his Fellow~ Prifoner Harriot, by refifting the Governor’s AUz, thority, and therein given a new Specimen of his difloyal Intentions, fomething might have bee? done in: his Favour ; but he was become too 10” -torious, and too dangerous a Criminal, to give Life to. However, the Governor who condusted himfelf in his Poft as well as in his private ca” pacity, with great Probity, Honour, and Can dour, hearkened to a Propofal of Bonnet’s Friends which was to fend him Prifoner to England, that his Cafe might be referr’d to his Majefty. col. Bher offer’d to go with him, and fufficient a : ; ui : rity gal to We Bet Ar ath glad ity was to be given, for yielding shim u ‘2, be, dealt with. accordi ng; to, hic Maislty's ee > ah: but the Major’s Friends confidered, at laft» ee it would. be a great Expence and. Trouble to” 8, manner of purpofe, except,..the; lengthening’ t_a wretched Life fome {mall Time longer ; for’ t Wd ‘ a! yo ig de e 4 4 . hey conceived, as little Hope of obtaining a Par-* don in England as. An South Carolina 5 fo they even’ fibmitted to. the Executi tbn ‘0. the Execution ofthat, Sentence up-° mettle that, had. wich, £9) much Jattice Sateen Bnbiag Ligbedl dhbioin, havea» Copy cof 1058) ie Writ 0c € Gover. i r I ilc , iineeime before he died nor, from the Priloner * Virr . Fe ¢. Oy Sione SfiSGd § Hebi Bg So Sd i op Haye, prefumed,.on the Gouiianeniett ‘ ¢ Senin sGaedede, + toythrow: my’ fel, atte : , this manner,5jat, your | Feery: to'implore you'll * css ipaly. cies pleatedidts deok upon! me with * : fer ler, Bowels,,of Pity. and'\Compatfion 3 and’ be. ° x eve” me tol; be'the: moftsmiferable Man this * ‘ rar breathing + That:the Tears proceeding ‘from * 3 i moft forrewful Soul may foftéh ‘your Heart, * : A incline you to confider my difmal State, : vfs ally b muft..confefs, unprepared: to recéive 3 fon’ the, dreadfisli' Bxecation you’shave’ béen * , Pleas’d to, appoints me; and» therefore’ ‘befeech ° ‘ eu to, think;'me an Objekt! of your Mereyy™ ~ retin Godisakes good» Sir, ‘tet:the Oaths -of * , tee Chriftian- Men weigh: fomething with you, ” -, Who. are ‘read fe; when's , WAo, are ready to depofe; when' yout pleafe to * dllow. them.the: Liberty) the Compulfions' Play Under, in c < oft tee ¥ : 7% > « dider. in committing* thofe Ags, for-which* 1 © ‘ wd oom’d -to: dies. | se ae my : * (Sl intreat -yournot) too letme fall! a Sacrifice ° 4 i too let me} fall a sari fice ‘ isthe rau andoungodly: ‘Rage of fone” few * veo 0, not being yet fatisfied with Blood eres > H. y 2 feign € 322 ). : ‘ feign to believe, that if I had the Happine®. of a longer |] ife in this World, I fhould fill, employ it in a wicked Manner, which, to’ re-. move that and all other Doubts with your Ho-. nour, I heartily ‘befeech you'll permit me to. live, and PH voluntarily’ put’ ic ever out’ of my Power, by feparating ‘all my Limbs ftom. my Body, only referving the Uf of my Tongue, to» call continually on, and ‘pray ‘to the Lord, my God, and mourn all my Days in’ Sack-, cloth and Afhes to work out confident Hopes of . my Salvation, at that great and dreadful Day, when all righteous Souls fhall receive their judt Rewards: And to render your Honour a further Affurance of being incapable to prejudice any of my Fellow-Chriftians, if I was fo wickedly bent ; I humbly beg you will (as ‘a Punifhment of my Sins for my’ poor Soul’s Sake) indent me a menial Servant to your Honour and this’Go- the fartheft Inland Garrifon or Settlement in the Country, or any otherways' you'll be pleafed to difpofe of me; and likewife'that you’ll re- RARARAAHRAAAAAAAARARARAHRARAA A © for.my good Behaviour, and conftant Attendance © to your Commands. 0) 0) poy a> “1 once, more beg: for the>Lord’s Sake, deat © Sir, that as you are a Chriftian;-you will be fo © charitable to shave Mercy: and Compaffion’ on . - * my, miferable Soul, but too newly awaked from ‘an Habit of Sin, to entertain foconfident Hopes . © and Affurance ofits. being received into ‘the . » © Arms of my bleffed Jefus, as is neceffary'to Te- » £ concile me. to. fo fpeedy a: Death’; «wherefore, » © as my Life; Blood, Reputation of my Family, » * and future happy State lies entirely “at your © Difpolal ; I implore you to confider me with © a chriftian and charitable Heart, and determine "© mercie * * ’ sees" : 7b je¥ | very is the hearty: Prayer. of vernment, during my Life, and fend me ‘up to ceive the Willingnefs of my Friends to be bound . : C 32ee)¢ , Mercifully of me, that I may ever acknowledge , *nd efteem you next to God my Saviour ; and , Oblige “me ever to” ther will alfo forgive your Trefpafies, ¢ | Now the God of Peace,that brought again from , the Dead our Lord Jefus, that great Shepherd of , the Sheep, thro? the Blood of the everlaiting ¢ yovenant, make you perfect in every good , York to do his Will, working in you that , Which is well pleafing “in) his: Sight, through © , Jefus Chrift, to. whom be Glory for eyer and i Your Bonvars f BE batirstsicoiline aap oiferalley ond Boise sb en) aoisihfldteds Serdang. 1 _ \STEDE BONNET, pray, that our heavenly Ba. ° ¢ 3 24.) ; 4 CSG eewAwaITE “Of Captain WORLEY. > i) VH E, Hiftory of the Pyrates being an Un- ‘@. . dertaking of great Length and‘ Variety» the Author readily: “ownisj that in fome Parts, he may not be fo exact, as they who have been occafionally upon the Spot when thefe parti¢ cular Incidents have happen’d. But in any Cis- cumftances he has omitted’ or mifreprefented, he applies to fuch Perfons for better Information 3 which Correétion or Addition (as feveral others have been) fhall be inferted as a Supplement t? the wholécod. 2O8 Te And he hereby acknowledges himfelf much obliged to the worthy Gentleman who fent the following Letter, for his kind Affiftance, in pro- moting his chief Defign, which’is to render as com- pleat as poffible, a Work of fo difficult a Nature. To Mr. John fon, Author of the Lives of she Pyratese S PR; 4ee = : ; N perufing your Book, Entitled, 4 General Hi- frory of the Robberies and Murders of the moft 1 torious Pyrates, &c. 1 find there an Account of the taking Captain Worley and his Crew, in many Pat- ticulars of which you have been very much mif- informed, and confequently the Publick is {£03 that Pyrate having been taken off the Bar © Charles Town in South Carolina by Col. Robert oes, ae ong mh in c SC) 3 Son, the then Governor, in Perfon ; to whom to do Justice, 1 have fent you the following Account of the taking him; for, as to hig Beginning and Rife, T cannot fay but your Account may be right You have fet it forth in your afore(aid Book: a 4 10 Olfober, 1718, Governor Fobnfon was informed, that there was a Pyrate Ship off the Bar of Charles Town, commanded by one Moody, carrying 5° Guns, and near 200 Men, that he had taken two Ships bound to that Port from Nep England &nd was come to an Anchor with them to the South. Ward of the Bar ; whereupon, he called his Coun- “land the principal Gentlemen of the Place, and Propofed to them, to fit out a proper Force to Fo out and attack him, fearing he might lie there ame Time, as Thatch and Vane had done before, ad annoy the Trade; which they unanimoufly appeceing, and there being, at that Time, 14 or 4g “Sips in the Harbour, he imprefs’d the Afediter. Tanean Gally, Arthur. Loan, and the King W liam, ae Watkinfon, Commanders ; and two Sloops, one ot which was the Revenge, taken from Stede Bonner, ¢ Pyrate, and another from Philadelphia s the for- pier, Captain John Mafters commanded, and the . Rts Captain Fayrer Hall, which two Captains ig lately commanded the fame: Sloops that took cumet at Cape Fear, about a Month before. On ond the Mediterranean was put 24 Guns, and 30 9. Board the King William; the Revenge Sloop had » and the other Sloop 6 Guns; and being thus guj : 2 tuipp’d, the Governor iffued a Proclamation, to a utage Voluntiers to go on Board, promifing’em . the Booty to be fhar’d among them, and that he quel would go in Perfon with ’em ; but the Shi ps { boa { Hs Sloops before-mentioned. being impre(s’d, it ‘SS S natural for the Commanders to defire fome urance of Satisfaction to be made the Owners, ° afe of a Misfortune; fo that. the Governor Y 3 : found SRE NANFA EVA BR ’$ therefore, he fail’d with his Fleet below Gobnfer ting wn William came up with the Ship, who, du- ‘ 5 “pat Fort over Night, and the next Morning by Bre’ r the Chafe, had taken down her Flagg, and "apping- the {mall Arms in it, had thrown them ¥ 4 overs. Cae.) € 327) « r vy 0 Pitace: = ; = = eee ? 4 found it neceffary. to. call the General Wan _ 2 Day, weigh'd Anchor, and by Eight in the the Province, without, whom it was ie defireds Morning, they were over the Bar, him to give them the Satisfaction (ed 4 Votes The Pyrate Sloop immediately flipt her Cable, and who, without any Beans aie Barca | hoifted ‘a black. Flag, and. ftood. to get between that they would pay for the fai Er >it the? | the Bar and the‘ Governor’s Ships, to prevent they were loft, according to an Apprailem accrued their going in again, as they expected they would made of them, and what other ST ae way ) ave done ; and in a {mall Time after, the Pyrate to carry on this neceffary Rate rt e. during Ship alfo hoifted a black Flag, and made Sail af of Proceeding took up a Week’s , hes 20 ply ter the Sloop ; during, all this Time, the Men on which, the Governor ordered sp she ardthe Port -—-Board ‘the. Governor’s Vellels didnot. appear, nor up and down the River, as well to pare make 1°, | "Was there any Shew of Guns, until they came from any Attempts the pias ea ‘Ravice of Within half Gun-fhot ; when the Governor hoifted Land, as to hinder them from cs a bron the a Flag at the Main-top-maft Head of the Medi- ~ what was doing, and alfo laid an Embarg / one, they all flung out their Guns, and giv- Shipping. ilds ng them their Broad-fides, the P rates j i- Tee three Days before ol pied sik, ately run, whereupon, the fer ak Hide there appear’d off the Barr a ‘Ps Siveat fOr 4 "Wo Sloops after the Pyrate Sloop, who ftood in who came to an Anchor, and ma +e A jy, and wards ‘the Shore, ay ie hen and the King Pilot ; but they being fuppos'd to 7 faid ve ex - William followed the Ship who ftood the contra. a Sloop that had join d him (as ike “a pear thems Ty Way to Sea. She feemed to have many Ports pected) no Pilot was permitted to ae or twice = d_ very. full of Men, tho” fhe had fir’d but from and thus they rid for four ee Shore. toa? if two Guns, which occafion’d no fmall Wonder on attempting to fend their a oe bayards a Board the Governor, why the had not flung open Tfland, call’d, Suilivants Mland ( < ; DG ate i + *t Ports, and made Ufe of more Guns, fhe be- confels’a) to fetch Watera oe cueuted by te | Um iitagined ail thie while to be Jaen Ce great Want; but nes Raat 4 for Want. Of fe Sloop, which proved to be Worley, was ats Scout Boats before-mentioned : An ne in the fame eked by the two Sloops fo warmly, that the which, they, were obliged to Saul te Monit Men ‘tun into the Hold, all except Worley himfelf Station, in hopes fome ay HeteGUeREte 5. they as fome few others, who were killed on the or going out, to relieve t ae Ty 2 gck 5 and being boarded, they took her within being very dhort alfo of Provifior d and about pent of Charles Town :. The People feeing the A&iz ~ And now all Things being | che four Velle! 4 ftom the Tops of their Houfes, and.the Mafts Three hundted Men on Board Ais h for A008) oF the Ships in the Harbour, where they had the Governor thought: himfelf : ‘ eprt he Placed thendtlves tor shee Sites in his 50.Gun Ship, althoug BG Sloop : And arte in the Afternoon before the Governor and they thought he was, join’d by a Sloop 3 : a ewe ‘ — wa SPLOT La RA WI BR C328. ) over-board } and alfo ‘flung over her Boat and what other Things they thought would lighten her, but all would not do: The King William came firlt up with her, and firing his Chafe Guns, killed feveral of the People on board, and they imme- diately ftruck;!when, to the no {mall Surprize of the Governor and his Company, there appeared near as many Women on board as Men, who weré not a few neither,” The Ship’ proving to be the Eagle, bound:from London to Virginia, with Con- wés 5 but had been taken by Worley off the Czpé of Virginia, and ‘had upwatds “of' 160 Men and 39. Women on board.” Many of the Men had ‘taken on with the Pytates; and as fuch, found in Caro- lina the Fate they -had deferved at home, being hang’d at Charles Town, the virtuous Ladies weré defigned to have been landed on one of the un- inhabited’ Babania lands, where there was a pro- per Port for' thefe Rovers ‘to put in, at any Time, to refreth: thettifelves, after the Fatigue of the Seas And thus a moft hopeful Colony would have commenced, if they had had but Provifions and Water fuffic'ent 'to’ have carried them to Sea > but ‘their Faté' kept them ‘fo long before the Port of Charles Teri, “until they-were deftroyed, and 2% End put(to' their wicked’ Lives, in the Mannet beforeméntioned: ©2 98d f° © NotwithRanding all the Governor’s Care,that 1° Advice thould be'given Afvody of the Preparation’ making for him} fomne People from the Shore wer fo wicked, as to go offin the Night and giv@ him a particular Account of the Ships, Sloops, and Men, that’ were preparing to go out againft him whereupon, he Having taken (about three Days be fore the Governor went) the Afinerva, Captain SM” vers fromthe Mgderas, laden with Wine, he ne ene ie Anchor and took his Prize wi f him, and ‘food. out above one hundred Leagues ~, sony HLT OAL glk Mi @GRLA RM GAT” Sey 2 mwoy Sea, where he pl FS vs ) » where he plundered her, and name Mafter not only the Veffels, but fome of mee Perfons were coming out to attack him, by which Advice he efcaped, and Worley coming juft as the Other was gone, met the Fate defigned for Atoody - who having taken out moft of the Wine from a board the Minerva, and plundered her, he difchar- Sed, and {ail’d for Providence, and foon after took the Benefit of his ‘Majefty’s Royal Proclamation, , The Governor kept the Ships and Veffels in (aif. ing Order fome Time, in Hopes Moody might have come off. the Bar again; but bein inform the Afinerva he was failed for Prolite nad 3 _ charged them, giving the final Booty taken to the met aha were the Captors, as he had promifed Your Account of the taking of Bonnet is = e t Juft, which was done by Governor Sobnfor's Di. rettion and Commifiion alfo.. - WWE VEU VEVEVUV EVES pS re CATAMAATAOA TAOS OF Captain Martel, 7 ive “ .e Captain jaa. ved SARs jn bth r I \HOUGH Ican contribute nothing to your Second Volume of Pyrates you have (as I hear) in Hand, yet, by your Charatter of Vera- city, I perfwade my felf I fhall oblige you, in rectifying a Miftake you made in your firft. In the Life of Captain Martel you fay, the Greyhound Galley of London,which 1 then commanded,fell into the Hands of that Pyrate, who plunder’d her of fome Gold Duft, Elephants Teeth, and 40 Slaves. The latter Part of this is juft, except the Ele-" phants Teeth, of which I loft, 1 think, none; but you are mifled in the former, for AZartel’s Com- pany had depofed him, on Account, as they them- felves told me, of his Cruelty ; had given him, and thofe who were willing to follow his Fortunes, a Sloop, and, fending him away, chofe a more righteous in his Place, whofe Name was Kennedy, -by Defcent an Jrifhman, by Birth a Spaniard of Cu- ba, anda Hunter. On my coming on Board the Pyrate, Captain Saunders of the Weymouth, who was — taken the Day before, was the firft Man who {poke to me, telling me, he was forry for my Misfor- tune. 1 took him for the Commander of the Py- rate; but I foon found my Miftake, by his carrying me aft to the Captain, wha bid me welcome, and dank to me ina Can of Wine; and fome of the Crew told me, that it was happy for me I ae no € 331.) not fall into the Hands of their late Captain ; for a Ship with Aadera Wine thought fit to give them the Trouble to lofe fome'Time, and fire a cay- ple of Chafe-Guns before the fhorten’d Sail, which Captain Martel took for fo great an Affront, that all the Company was cut off. But I fhall now give you the Particulars of my being taken. As I have faid, 1 commanded the Greyhound Galley, on board of which I had 250 Slaves, bound from the Coaft | Of Guiney to Famaica, and confign’d to Meffieurs Feak and Aldcroft, on Account of Mr. Bignell and others. On the 16th of Olfober 1716, about 10 Leagues S. S. W. from the Ifland of Afonna, in the grey of the Morning, my fecond Mate came down and acquainted me, that a Ship was almoft on board us, We then fteer’d about W. half South, and the Pyrate ftood to the S. E. His coming very near us made us edge away from him, and call out to defire he would keep his Luff, or he “Would be on board us. No Anfwer was given, and not a Soul appear’d/on his Decks, but the Man at the Helm, and about two more; how- ever the Greyhound got clear, and crowded, as u- fual, for a Market. As foon as the Pyrate got into our Wake, fhe wore, and made all the Sail fhe could, by which Means fhe foon came up with us (for fhe was clean, and we foul) and clewing up her Sprit-Sail, fir’>d a Gun with Shot, and at the fame Time let fly her Jack,Enfign and Pendant, in which was the Figure of a Man, witha Sword in his Hand, and an Hour-Glafs before him; with “8 Death’s Head and Bones. In the Jack and Pen= dant were only the Head and Crofs Bones. 1 did not think fit to fhorten Sail, which occafioned a fecond Shot fro# the Pyrate, which went through our Main Top-Sail. Upon this I confulted my Officers, and they advifed the fhortning Sail, as Wwe were no Way in a Capacity to make Wy, De- fence. 820, BNE UA OE a Ie Be os OAS SES 4 EVEUSVEY ES RAS AST? AS SRO RSVR IRR AASV, RES 24 € 332) | fence. 1 followed their Advice, and was order’d on board the Pyrate, who ask’d me, pretty civily, the ufual Queftions, Whence I came ? Whether bound? @&c. My fecond Mate, and fome of my Men, were foon fhifted into the Pyrate, with 4° of the beft Men Slaves; the Women Slaves they diverted themfelves with, and took off the Irons from all‘the Negroes 1 had on board, The Cap- tain asked me if I had no Gold? I affured him I had not; and, indeed, I had no ‘more than 100 Ounces, which, before I ‘went ‘on board the Py- rate, my Carpenter had fet into the Ceiling of the great Cabbin. He anfwer’d only, it was very ftrange that I fhould take no Gold on the Coait. ‘Lanfwer’d, I had taken a confiderable Quantity, but as I took it in one Place, 1 parted with it in an- other ;. which, if he would infpe& my Books, he _ would find exaétly as I faid.. We had no more Difcourfe then on the Subje&, but a while after, IT and my Mate were {ent for into the great Cab- bin, where the Council fat. Immediately cock’d Piftols were clapp’d to our Breafts, and we were threaten’d with Death, in Cafe we did not confefs what Gold we had on board, and where it was hid. I deny’d that we had any, and defir’d he would fatisfy himfelf of the Truth, by examining my Books, The Mate anfiver’d, he knew nothing of my Dealings on the Coafts, and therefore could give no Anfwer. He knew, indeed, I had re- ceived Gold on the Coaft, as he had feen it brought onboard; but he had feen a confiderable Quan- tity carry’d out of the Ship. Upon this, we were order’d to withdraw, and nothing more was faid but I hearing their Defign was to torture me with lighted Matches between my Fingers, I thought the Lofs of the Ufe of my Hands would be but poorly compenfated with. the faving 100 Ounces o: Gold, and therefore defired to {peak to the Captain aes € 333) aptain himfelf'; to him difcover’d: what | had, fad where it was. concealed, .. He: immediately i ent, his Boat on. board the Greyhound,’ with my-! Carpenter and half:adozen of his own Crew. tho Were fo impatient to be at the Gold, they ‘made 2 meer Pincuthion “of the Fellow’s Breech, conti- pually 'prickinguhis Backfide. with their: Swords, ! Ss posed him.) )Myy Lodging -was lin 'the»Hold, » : aate one: Taffier 5 the'Gunner, came down: to me, “ uapp'd a Piftol at my Breaft, which he fired ‘ erwards upon \Decki;'* and: the fame! Man’ ore : ay; asl wasion the! Quarter-Deckyiftruck: me, vs the \Prefence of this:Captain, with his Cutlats. | . ~ having reproach’d me (with imy private Coie i ton, and asking,» iflevery Man thereyhad not‘ * good. and} juft \Pretenfion to\the Gold as the Ayo » Whether inovas by ‘Accident or Defign' : ati] e ftruck withthe Flatof his Cutlafs,1 know ot, but the Blow, knock’d meidown, and depriv’d * 8 of my Seufes for.fome Time. Siso os ye: aptain Kennedy, who feem’d to have more Hu hen than :iss'commonly found in’Men eis ; ‘ee effion, Jtefentéd (this: Treatment ‘ofome {or far, |? sia he got: into( his Yawl, and put offofrom thels 2 iP fweating he would not fail with Men \whovt a arbarouflyiabufed their :Prifoners.’ He; how-ls Sone lea des On -board at: their Perfwafions,\! . von.their, Promifé} that nothing like tit fhoulds . pen. for! the: futures: The-Night-of the: Day?! eich Wecwere taken, the>:Pyrate> cameto Me nchorcunderithe: Ifland ‘of Savona, where-hew ; = us till:theszothj:and then Jet us go iv Come" i read ith:Captain Sauiders,oof the Ship Weymouth man Pohttnt, Jaden with Fiihy andLumber “for: ¥4292 Po e4,, at whicholfland=we arrivedoand anchor'd’ae'2 'Rayal theesth in: the. Morning. 10 of0 Sasdt bug iS. SigGo"t RW ~¢ HOUGiOISH 30. m0. 7333} Fhe Bur € 334) ‘The’ Pytate, a little before Iiwas taken) liad met. with two: interloping Dutch’ Men, duppo- fed to be bound for the Main,'who gave him a rough Entertainment, and made him ‘glad’ to fheer off. 9) _) ‘ 7 The Weymouth had two Women Paffengers: on board ; how. they pafs’d their ‘Time’ I need not fay 5 though, I fancy, as theyvhad formerly made a Trip or two to the Bay, there. was no Rape ~ committed.) . a6 1 i ; Notwithftanding the melancholy Situation T'was in, I, could not refrain laughing when I faw the Fellows who went on board:'the Greyhound, re- turm to their own Ship 3 for they had, in‘rums maging my Cabbin, met with: a Leather Powder Bag) and Poff, with, which they had powder’d themfelyves from: Head to Foot, walk’d the Decks with their Hats under their Arms,;mincedtheirOaths, and affected all the Airs of a Beau, with an Auk-'— wardnefs would have forced:a Smile from a” Cynick. When I was permitted tosreturn on’ board" the. Greyhound, and. profecute my Voyage, J-found ~ all. my Papers torn, and every Thing turn’d top- fy-turvy ; but this was nothing to their leaving all my Negroes out of Irons, of ‘whom I was more in fear than I had been of the Pyrates; ‘for, -a+’ mong them, | the Captain’s Humanity protected’ us; but we could expect no, Quarter fromthe © Negroes fhould they rebel, -and, in fuch Cafe,’ we had-no Profpett of quelling’ them, for the Py- rates had taken away all our Arms, and by o- pening.a Cask. of Knives, which they had fcat-- ter’d about the Ship, they had armed the Ne- groes, one of whom had the'Infolence: to collar and fhake one of my Men. [therefore called my People aft, and told them, our Security depend- ed. altogether on our Refolution , wherefore arm- ing | | } 1 4 i aa Co. ng felves with Handfpikes, we drove th 5, Broes into the Hold, and afterwards a pe one by one, we put on their Irons, which the. ‘nates had. not)taken with them, took ‘away - eir Knives, and, by thefe Means, arrived fafel at our Port. If this Detail is of any Service a You, 7 have .my Ends. “I, hope, \if you intend ai ‘ ird Volume, it may .induce others who have a the fame Misfortune of falling ‘into the Hands 0 eye affift you with their Minutes, am Feb, 2. Sono, MHD ET 1727-8. Your very humble Servant; J EVANS. « Re! faci. OF Distur ov psnrtiotrr iD37 TS r : Fi ts ae A ° ; 3 s P.S. Four of my Men took on’ with'the: Pyrates). though I rememb tv ( er the Names of tw , Bry-* “nt Ryley, Sohn Hammond. ¢ 000) gen Tous eit es AV sa 2sibniM smol woy paibust ~ ae | 23 iw cont eae ie cea rid) IL. -.13041 uo 2 The TRIAL of the Pyrat es ab Providence! ooo) -* geruniM, end tiw “soy Fit! of. 29381¢4 4° To Captain ‘Johnfon. sain 6.454 'doturlL-Visy,. suo * O24 S43 oe Bey AS 1 am credibly informed you intend to rar -oblige:the Publick-with a Second: Volure“of 3 The Lives\ and. Attions of the: Pycates, andeare now! ac-" tually colle&ting Matter; L\was:of Opinion; that” the fending you fome Minutes I have by me, which are authentick, would be no unacceptable Office ; and I hope, the Gentleman who was then Governor of the Bahama Iflands, will not take the Publication of the. f I am informed) he is in’ To fend them to -you, I examine Before I would very thoroughly whether he could-have any Ground to be offended 5 but, as I find them’ Matks of ‘his Prudence and Re- folution, and that in the Condemnation and Exe~ cution of the Pyrates, heshada juft Regard to the publick Good, and “was ‘not}tovbe deterr’d from vigoroufly purfuing it, if Circumftances which would have intimidated many brave Men: | think the Publication will do him both Honour and Juftice, and therefore fhall make no Apology, but come to the Point. : Trial following Tryals.in ill Part, for €937 ) Trial and Condemnation of the Pyrates, who were executed at Providence, His Excellency Woodes Rogers, Efg; being then Captain General, Governor, and Vice-Admiral of the Bahama Iflands. At a private Confultation, held on Friday the 28th | of November, 1718, at the Secretary's Office in| the City of Naffax. ' New Providence 7. HE Governor acquainting us, That Captain Cocke tem and Captain Hornigold have, by Virtue of 4 Commiffion, iffued and diretted to them for the appre= ‘nding of certain. Pyrates, bad the Succefs to bring ten °f them Prifoners to this Part, who were now confined by “” efpecial Mittimus o board. the Ship Delicia 5 there= Sore, defired we might agree to join in one Opinion con= “eraing the faid. Prifoners Saat | hich being maturely debated and confidered, and that as | the neceffary Guards fet on the Prifoners for Want of a Goal, very much fatigued both the Soldiers and Seamen, ho equally guarded the Fort and Ship, and as many as °tuld be'fpar'd, daily work’d on the Fortifications, and did the Duty of Centinels at Night, thereby harraffing our fimall ; Numbers of Men, and hindering the publickWork. And | there being fufpetted Perfons ftill remaining in thefe Iflands, ho may kive frequent Intelligence of our Condition 5 {hould ny Fear be fhewn on our Part, it might animate feveral *m here, to invite the Pyrates without, to attempt the Refeve of thefe in Cuftody : Therefore; we do believe it wt for the publick Good, when the Fort isin a better Bee of Defence, and Captain Beauchamps and Burgis, th about 60 Soldiers aad Seamen, at this time gone to pre- Me the Defigns of Vane the Pyrate, are returned to fy us: Tie Governor ought then as foon as palm © (vorwithftanding he has made Xnown to us, that be Vor. I. Z has / C€ 338 3 ; has no direst Commiffion for Trial of Pyrates 5 yet accord- ing ta the Intent and Meaning of the fixth Article of ie Governors Tuftruttions, which, in this Cafe, refers to 1 fourth Article in thofe given to the Governor of Jamaicay a Copy of whofe Inftruétions he has for his Direétions E govern bimfelf by, as near as the Circumftances of thé Place will admit. This corroborated with the Power in the Governor's Commiffion of Governor, Captain General, at Vice-Admiral of the Bahama Mflands, fhew the Intentio? of his Majefty, for fuch Authority bere, and having ey Account that the Proprietory Government of Carolina ha d executed 22 Pyrates, lately carried in there, which to f gether with the provoking il Example and Behaviour 2 “thefe Prifoners, who have all accepted his Majefty’s A i of Grace, and afterwards turned Pyrates again, and com fidering it would be a great Rifque and Trouble to fend fo many to Great Britain, and much greater to keep them Prifoners here , we are entirely of Opinion, his AZ jeliy will approve of the Neceffity for the Governor's j* dicial Proceeding with thefe Pyrates, by a Trial in a beft Manner we can according to Law and do vert Z believe the fpeedieft Execution for thofe who {hall ne found guilty, wilk conduce moft to the Welfare of th! overument. : ; f nate B. Thus this ftands in the Council-Books the Governor’s Secretary is an{werable for Want of Connexion, or the Secretary of the Iflands ; for . I cannet find what thefe Words’ ean refer to, #h¢ Governoe ought then as foon as poffible, what oa he? But may be, it is an Brror in my Frien¢s who himfelf brought over this Copy, written mi his own Hand; which with the following, I fou” among his Papers after his Deceafe. 4 Bene aoe baited fw His Excellency Woodes Rogers, Eig; Captain- General, Governor, and Vice-Admiral of the Bahama Iflands. To William Fairfax, Efq; Captain Robert Beau- champs, Tho. Walker, Efq, Capt. Wingate Gale; Nathaniel Taylor, Eig; Capt. Fofias Burgifs, and Capt. Peter Courant. Se a . Providence, I. «R* Virtue of a Commiffion ftom his mog : facred Majefty King George, King of Great= , Britain, &c. to be Governor, Ge. of thefe Iflands, , thereby empowering me to authorizes; commif- - fionate, and conftitute all Judges, Juftices and y : Magiftrates in thefe IMfands, Ge. as alfo by Vir-. _ , tue of my Commiffion; to be Vice-Admiral of _, thefe Ilands, have Power and Authority to au- = thorize and empower, conftitute and commiftio- , Tate, proper Judges and Commiffioners, for the , “ying, determining, adjudging, and condemning; ; OF all or any Pyrate or Pyrates taken, appre- i hended, and brought into this Government; and ; 2 Confidence of the Loyalty,. Prudence, aid In- - { tegrity of you the aforelaid William Fairfie, Eq; _ Captain Robert Beauchamps, Thomas Walker, Eq; a Captain Wingate Gale, Nathaniel Taylors Efq; _ Captain Jofias Burgifs, and Captain, Peter Cou- rant, 1 do by Virtue of thefe Prefents, au-, _ thorize; commiffionate, and appoint you Députy, - ' Judges, and Commiffioners of the faid Efpecial ‘ Court, by thele Prefents ere%ed and appointed ; tO be, and fet in the City of Naffzu; on Tuefday _ the oth of this Inftant, to examine, hear, try, ; Judge, determine, and coademn, all fuch Pyrate j brought before the faid Court, to be tryed for. ~the Offences of Pyracy by them lately commir: = Zr ted asthe Hit || , Or Pyrates who are now jin Cuftody, and to be ( 340 ) © ted in and about thefe Iflands, and to proceed © as my Afiiftants, and as.Commiffioners afore(aid, € according to the Laws of England, and Rules of “ the faid Court in fuch Cafes; and for your fo © doing, this fhall be your fufficient Commiffion © and Authority. Given under my Hand and Seal at Naflau, this fifth Day of December, Anno Regni quinto Georgii Regis Adagna Britannia, &c. Annoq; Domini, 1718. WOODES ROGERS. New Providence, {f. Chief of the Bahama Tflands. T an, efpecial Admiralty Seffions, held in his Majefty’s Guard-Room in the City of . Naffau, on Tuefday the oth, and Wednefday the icth | of December, 1718. . Before his Excellency Woodes Rogers, E{q, Gover- nor, and Vice-Admiral, Cc. a \ Will. Fairfax, Eig; Judge of the Admiralty Robert Beauchamp, Eq, - Thomas Walker, Efq, Captain Wingate Gale, Nathaniel Taylor; Eq; Captain Sofas Burgif:. : Captain: Peter Courant. > \ Proclamation being made as ufual, the Regifter opened and read the Governor’s efpecial Commil- fion, for erecting this Court according to the In- tent and’ Meaning of a late At of Parliament, Entitled, Aa A for the more ofetual Suppreffion of Pyracy, by Virtue of which faid Commiffion, the feven afore-named Commiffioners are appointed Affiflant Judges, for the hearing,. trying, judgings and condemning the feveral Perfons now jn Cu- fiody, who fiand-committed for Mutiny, Felony» and Pyracys* ©" time & ' pros . + wee Se See ee he (341) 5 .. Proclamation being again made, that all Per- fons concern’d or fummon’d, and required to ap- Pear at this Court, do give their due Atten- dance. : Ordered, That the Prifoners be brought to the Bar, which being done, they were cdMed by their Te{pettive Names, viz. John Augur, Will. Cunning- ham, Falun Hipps, Dennis Mackarthy, George Rounfivel, Witt, Dowling, Will. Lewis, Thomas Morris, George Ben-= dall, and Will Ling. ; _ Ordered, That the afore-named Prifoners, now - at the Bar, do all hold up their Hands. Ordered, That the Acculation againft the Pri- foners be read, which was as follows, New Providence, ff. See HE Articles and Accufations againft Fohx Au- gur, late Mafter ot the Sloop Afary, of Pro- ‘wdence , William Cunningham, Gunner and Mariner, On board the Schooner, called the Batchelors Ad- venture ; Henry White, Matter, John Hipps, Boat{wain and Mariner, on board the Sloop Lancaffer; Wil- liam Greenaway, Mafter, Dennis Mackarthy, Mariner, ©n board the Scoouer, William Dowling, Mariner, on board the faid Scooner 3 William Lewis, Mariner, on board the. Sloop Mary ; Tho. Morris, Mariner, on board the faid Scooner ; George Bendall, Mariner, on | board the faid Sloop Lancafter, and William Ling, : Mariner, on board the faid Scooner. : You the faid John Augur, Will. Cunningham, John Zipps, Dennis Mackarthy, George Rounfivel, William Dowling, William Lewis, Thomaz Morris, George Ben- dall, and Wiliam Ling, having all of you lately Teceived the Benefit of his Majefty’s moft graci- Ous Pardon, for your former Oliences and Atts of Robbery and Pyracy, and having fince taken the Oaths of Allegiance to his moit facred Majefty King George, and thereupon Truft has been re- Yes pofed LPT Ka WOE VAT EYES | C342 ) pofed in you the faid John Augur, and in the others of you, lawful Employments been beftow’d to di- Vert you all from your former and unlawful Courfes of Life, and to enable and fupport you all in juft and lawful Ways of Living, and you not having the Fear of God before your Eyes, nor ary Regard to your Oaths of Allegiance taken to your Sovereign, nor to the Performance of Loy- alty, Truth, and Juftice: But, being inftigated and deluded by the Devil, ‘to return to your former unlawful ‘evil Courfes, of Robbery and Pyracy, and that you John Augur, Will. Cunningham, Fohn Hipps, Denais Mackarthy, George Rounfivel, Will. Dow- ling, Will. Lewis, Tho. Morris, Geo. Bendall, and Will. Ling, late Mafter and Mariners aforefaid, did on the 6th Day of Offober laft, about Seven in. that Evening, inthe sth Year of the Reign of our So- vereign Lord George, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, &c. plot and combine together, at a defolate Ifland, called Green Key, within the Jurifdigtion of this Vice-Admiralty, to mutiny and felonioufly and pyratically fteal, take, and carry away, from the Commanders and Owners of the afore-named Veffels, the faid Sloops and Cargoes, Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture, to the Value of ~ above goo |. current Money of thefe Iflands, and by Force caufe to be’ put afhore on the {aid de- folate Iland, one Mr. James Kerr, Merchant, and fundry others with him; and the faid John Augury as then Commander of one of the faid Sloops, did Bigneae as Commander of the faid Pyrates from the aid Mland of Green Key to Exuma, whereby,by Virtue 6f aCommilffion,direéted to Captain Yobn Cockrem and Captain Benjamin Hornigold, gur, and the reft of your pyratical Company, were there taken and apprehended as Pyrates, and there~ upon brought into this Port, to be proceeded a= gainft according to Law. nit ge eee you the faid John Au- i « €343) _ The Prifoners holding up their Hands, and the Accufation being read, all the faid Prifoners were asked by the Regifter, Whether Guilty, or, Not Guilty ; and they pleaded Not Guilty. Ordered, That the Evidence for the King be fe- verally fworn and examined. ‘The Examination of James Kerr, Gent. upon Oath faith, That he being Supercargo in Truft, and outward bound from Provi- dence, a trading Voyage in the Sloop Mary, and in about two Days Sail from the faid IMland, did ar- Yive at Green Key with two other Veflels in Com- Pany, bound alfo on the faid trading Account, where, on the 6th of Oétober aft, one Phineas Bunce, one of the faid Veffel’s Company, and the head Mutineer of the Pyrates now at the Bar, but fince deceas’d, did then and there come on board the faid Sloop Aéary, and very vile- ly treat this Deponent, and in the Evenirg did turn the Deponent athore upon the faid Green Key, a de- folate Ifland; and this Deponent farther faith, that Dennis Mackarthy, one of the Prifoners now at the Bar, was the only Perfo of all the faid Pyrates and Mutineers who fhew’d this Deponent Fames Kerr. any civil Treatment, and that the faid &tackarthy - did not reflect on the King and Government as others of them now at the Bar did, in this De- Ponent’s Hearing, . The Examination of Captain William Greenaway Pon Qath faith, That on the Sth of Offober lait Sfobn Hipps, ehpecicge dis One of the Prifoners now at the Bar, with, fome others of them, came on board the _ Veffel under this Deponent’s Command, and then Tiding at Green Key, with Pretenfions of getting Tobacco, and told this Deponent, that Mr. Kerr Z4 - had CUEV ES OP ARE. Ae | | € 84a) * = hada Mind to fail that Night; and this Depo- nent having order’d his Boat to go on board the Scooner, then belonging to the faid Company, to give them Notice of the faid Kerr’s Defign ; which Interim came on-board ‘ohn Augur and George Rounfivel, both Prifoners now at the Bar, Games Matthews and Sohn Fohnfon, who wanted. this ‘Deponent to go on board the'Scooner, which he did, where Phineas Bunce, fince dead, met this De- ponent at the Side; upon which, this Deponent demanded of the faid Bunce, the Reafon he did not prepare for failing, as the reft did. Whereupon Bunce, the head Mutineer, asked this Deponent to walk down into the Cabbin, and, when theres Bunce asked him to fit down by him; whereuP- on the faid Bunce told this Deponent, he was his Prifoner; upon which, Dennis Aacarthey, now Prifoner at the Bar, prefented a Piftol at this De- ponent’s Breaft, and told him, if he fpoke a Word, he, this Deponent, was a dead Man; and the faid Phineas Bunce told this Deponent, he had beft be _eafy,for that the better Part of the People belonging to the Sloop AZary was on his Side, as were fome of the People he had with him. ‘And then the faid Phineas Bunce, with others, the MurineerSs ‘went on board the Sloop Afary, and took her. But this Deponent cannot particularize the Names of the Men who were with Bunce, being Night-time- Afterwards the faid Bunce, and the Prifoners now ’ atthe Bar, except Yohn Hipps, put Mr. Sames Kerr's Richard Turnly, Thomas Rich, Yohn Taylor, and Joh Cox, allathore at Green Key, a defolate Ifland, and had the Boat ready prepared to carry this De- ponent afhore alfo,; but Bunce hereupon declared, that this Deponent, being a Bermudian, would {wim aboard again, and therefore confin’d this Deponent a Frifoner, and plundered his Veffels jeaving him not wherewithal to proceed any pad pi s 3 Uu = ala amie ances anes ann estate NNN 3 C 345 ) , _ but a final Quantity of Flower and Beef, obliging this Deponent not to fail from Green Key in 24 Hours after his Departure ; but this Deponent did fail the next Morning for Providence, and, in his Way, fell in Sight of the faid Mutineers and Py- rates, of whom the Prifoners at the Bar were fome, who gave Chafe. Whereupon this Depo- ‘Nent went back to Green Key, and took to the Shore, where he faw the Pyrates and faid Muti- heers cut away the Matt of this Deponent’s Vef- fel, and then were coming on Shore, as this Depo- nent apprehended, to take his Perfon.. Where- upon this Deponent made his Efcape to hide him- felf ftom them upon the faid Key. Then the Peo- ” ‘ple who were left on board this Deponent’s Vef- fel, coming afhore, told this Deponent, that. the © -Pyrates had fcuttled her, turn’d the Yawl adriit, and from Green Key the faid Pyrates proceeded to Stocking Mland, where meeting the Spaniards, the Pyrates were themfelves taken, and put afhore, The Examination of Fob Taylor upon Oath faith, That all the Pri speeds foners at the Bar, exceptYobn Hipps, did join with Bunce, the Mutineer; and that Bunce and two More, whom the Deponent knew not, being Night, took the Veffel he belong’d to; and further faith, That Fohn Hipps was at firft confined with the faid Greenaway by Bunce. e : The Examination Or ieee ta upon Oath aith, That on the 6th of O&fober .. laft, Bunce the head Mutineer nde ee two others, naming William Dowling and Thomas Morris, Prifoners at the Bar, did come on board the Sloop Mary at Green Key, and ask’d Mr. Kerr and this Deponent for a Bottle of Beer, which was 8iven them, and afterwards a Second, and they . CONie ( 346 ) commanded a third ; and then with the Men, be- longing to the faid Sloop Mary, took up Arms, and took Mr. Kerr, Thomas Cox, and this Deponent Prifoners, and forced them to go on Shore at © Green Key, a defolate Ifland, about 25 Leagues di- ftant from Providence. The Examination of Yobn Cox upon Oath faith, - gob - Cor That he being on board the Sloop "Mary, of which Fohn Augur went out of Providence Matter: The faid fohn Aucur came on board his faid Sloop in the Evening of the 6th Day of Oétober laft, and lay down as if he defigned to fleep. Soon after, Capt. Greenaway, Mafter of the Sloop Lancafter, came on board, and ask’d the faid Augur, if he intended to fet Sail? He anfwer’d, he could not tell; thereupon Captain Greenaway went on board the Scooner, call’d the Batchelor’s Adventure, Henry White, Matter, and in about half an Hour afterwards, came on board another Boat with Sohn Hipps, Greenaway’s Boat{wain, to enquire for Captain Greenaway , and ina little Time after, Phineas Bunce came on board the Sloop Mary from | ‘the Scooner with 2 or 3 Men more, Bunce ask’d tor Captain Augur,-and whether they had any Thing to drink, and coming to Mr. Kerr, ask’d him for a Bottle of Beer, which Mr. Kerr gave him; then the faid Bunce went into the Cabbin, and brought up a Cutlath, and ftood at the Cabbin-Door to drink, and {wore that he was Captain of that Veffel, and would be 0, which made Captain Augur ask him his Meaning ; but prefently the faid Bunce and Augur feem’d ta be good Friends, and Bunce ask’d for another Bottle of Beer, then ftruck 'Mr. Kerr with a Cutlafh on his Back, and turn’d him and others afhore; and this Deponent well knew all the feveral Prifoners at the Bar, except Hipps the Boatfwain, and that all the reft were : E Aiders, ak aad Aiders, Affiftants, and Abettors to the Mutiny: Felony, and Pyracy, committed upon the Velbis and Cargoes at Green Key. cae eee The Examination of Thomas Rich upon Oath faith, That he knows the feveral Prifo- ? ners at the Bar; and that they all, except Hipps, were the Actors of the Mutiny and Pyracy, committed upon the Vefiels and Cargoes at Green Key; and this Deponent was taken by them in the Mary Sloop, and put afhore with Mr. Kerr and the other Evidences for the King, Thomas Rich, The Examination of Thomas Petty upon ] faith, That he faw Hipps beat by eke Bunce,and believes he was forced to go with him ; and that Bunce would have forc’d this - Deponent alfo; but Dennis Mackarthy, Prifoner at the Bar, faid if Bunce forc’d the Doponent, he the faid Prifoner would leave Bunce and his Com- And then the Court adjourn’d till 3 a-Clock Thomas Petty. in the Afternoon, - The Court being met according to Adjournment, | and all the Evidences for the King being called and examined, then the Prifoners at the Bar were feverally called, to know what Defence each had to make, viz. ” Babs Sohn Augur being firft called to make Defence for himfelf, faith ne other than that he was in Liquor, and knew not of. Phineas Bunce his Defign, when the {aid Bunce en- ter’d on board the Sloop Afary, whereof the Pri- Gehn Augur. foner was Mafter ; but could call no Evidence to Prove himfelf not guilty. William ype orn Oey iS ee William Cunningham being next called and exa- 7 ~ mined faid, That he was afleep when Bunce went on board the Scooner (to which the Prifoner belong’d) at Green Key, and that Bunce brought the faid Prifoner Punch, and told him, that he the Prifoner muft either join- him the faid Bunce, or be put upon a Adoroon Key, alias a defolate Key.» Wm. Cunningham, - Foha Hipps, Prifoner, faid in his Defence, that he bn Hippy, cid not in any wife enter with Buuce ohn Bib nd his Company ; but went on board the aforefaid Scoover, to-enquire for Wikiam Green- away his Captain, where he was, immediately con- fined by Bunce, together with Greenaway, and aftet- wards: put on Shore.with Mr. Kerr and others, where Bunce beat the faid Prifoner, and compell’d him at length to join Buace, but neverthelefs de- clared his Intention to leave the faid Bunce and Company on the firft Opportunity, and defired Mr. Kerr, Captain Greenaway, Richard Turaly, Thomas Terrell, Benjamin Hutchins, Fohn Taylor, Foha Sanfors Thomas Petty and David Meredith, might be examin’d for him. tori Mr. Sames Kerr being {worn as Evidence for the ~ Prifoner declared, That Buzce ufed much threat- ning Language againft John Hipps, Prifoner, that if he did not join him the faid Bunce and pyratical Company, and go with them into a Boat, provided on Purpofe' to: carry the Pyrates to their Rendez- vous, Hipps fhould repent the Refulal, and farther fays, that he faw or knew of no Blows given. to compel the Prifoner to affift or join the {aid Py- rates, but that the Prifoner afterwards accepted the Office and Command of Boatfwain to the faid _pyratical Company. Captain Greenaway being fworn for the Prifonet fays, that the Prifoner went with him on hoard : t : € 349.) = the ‘Scooner, and was in the Cabbin with him, and made Prifoner with him on board the faid Scooner, where the Priforer made Propofal tothe Deponent to furprize Denis Atuckarthy, Prifoner at the Bar, then a Centinel upon Deck, and throw the faid Mackarthy over-board; but the Deponent feeing no Probability of efcaping the Reft, advifed the Pri« foner to keep his Mind to himfelf, till he could have a better Opportunity ; and farther faith, that the Prifoner was put afhore with Mr. Kerr, &c. Richard Turaly being {worn for the Prifoner de- pofed; That to the beft of his Knowledge and Remembrance, the Prifoner was fore’d to accept of any Duty the faid Bunce and Company put up- on him, if the Command of Words be allowed by the Court fufficient to excufe him; but he never faw Bunce, or any of the reft of the Pyrates, ufe Blows to force him to join them. - : Thomas Terrell, Inhabitant, being fwern, gave the Prifoner the Charaéter of being an honeft Man, "Who was recommended to him by Thomas Bowling, Mafter of the Sloop Sarah, belonging to the faid Thomas Terrell, that during a late Voyage perform’d to Cuba, about two Months ago, there was a Mu- tiny fufpetted by Thomas Bowling, of which the faid Bowling declared, that Sohn Hipps Prifoner, was not only innocent, but believed: a Suppreffor of the faid Mutiny ; and farther declares, that Tho- mas Bowling had acknowledged the Safety of the Veffel to. be much, owing to John Fiipps, Prifoner at the Bar. wee Benjamin Hutchins being {worn for the Prifouer, and examined, declared, that the Prifoner after having been matriculated and feduced by Bunce and his Accomplices, often complain’d to him the De- Fonent, that he would defert them the firft Op+ foriunity, and fhew'd his. Intentions. by many apes s ere? vil eats | ¢ 330 ) 5 Tears fhed, as Tokens of Sorrow for his late Mis- fortune. John Taylor being examined upon Oath declared; that the Prifoner was confined as a Perfon not trufted by Bunce and his pyratical Company. Sohn Fanfen being examined upon Oath, had no- thing to declare for or againft the Prifoner worth — Notice. ieee Thomas Petty being fworn for the Prifoner de< clared, that Bunce threatned the Prifoner, that if he would not confent to be of his pyratical Com- pany, he fhould be frequently beat; and alfo be put on the firft Aforoon Key, where he might not find Provifion, Water, or any other Suftenances which the Deponent thinks compell’d the Prifoner | : to proceed with Bumce for his Safety. David Meredith being alfo éxdmined upon Oatlt declared, Phat when Phineas Bunce firft made Se1- ure of the Veffel, he particularly {poke to Hipps the Prifoner, that if he would not take on 19 their Way, he the faid Bunce would moroon him; tipon fome defolate Key or Ifland; and the more to compel him, gave him feveral Blows with his Cutlafh, and thinks the Prifoner was forced te join with Bunce, &c. » Dennis Mackarthy Prifoner being next called, and defiring that Mr. Kerr, Captain Greenaway, Sohn Taylor, Thomas Rich; and Thomas Petty, might be admitted to give Evi- dence for him. Mr. Kerr being examined upon Oath declared, That Atackartby, Prifoner, was as active as any other of the Prifoners in their pyratical Defigns, and has nothing more to fpeak in his Favour, than that the Prifoner treated him and all others that were of the Deponent’s Company, with moré Civility than any others of the pyratical Crew did. . ‘Dennis Mackarthy. Captais ame = George Rounfivel. Rounfivel, after having confented to be of Bunce’s pyratical Company, thew'd fome Foken of Sorrow, but withal faid, that as he had begun, could not _ without Danger of Life, defert the Pyrates he had ~ combined with. ‘ William Dowling, Prifoner, being next called, and defiring Thomas Petty to be Evidence y, Doxwling. for him, he was fworn, and faid, that he had very little to fay for him, becaufe he had feen the Prifoner as confenting to their py- ratical Defigns as any of the faid Prifoners. Wiliam Lewis, Prifonet,; being next called, had very little to fay for himfelf, othet~ py sm Leavis, Wife than that one David Meredith ~~ 2 had heard him fay, he wifhed to be at ohn Cullemove’s” (352) David Meredith, being {worn as Evidence for the Prifoner, only confirmed. ~ Thomas Morris, Prifoner, being next called, had very little elfe to fay, than that he had the Fever and Ague when he was firft commanded by Bunce to join them, and defiring Thomas. Rich as Evidence, he was {worn, and declared, that the Prifoner, as much as he took Notice of him, appeared: as active as the moft é capable, and could not fay, that the Prifoner ever "-yelented,; ; Thomas Morris. George Bendall, Prifoner, being next called, and defiring Richard Turaly for Evidence, he was {worn, and declared, that the Prifoner was defired to make his Efcape, but was refolved to continue with the Pyrates. . . George Hendall. William Ling, Prifoner,. being next called; .who having nothing to fay farther, than a Requeft that Richard Turnly might give in Evidence tor him; he was fworn, and « declared, that the Prifoner bore Arms, and was as xefolved as any of the Pyrates, ate Then the Court adjourned till Ten a-Clock » next Morning, being the roth Inftant. William Ling, . December 10, 1718. The Court having met according to the Ad- journment, and Proclamation made, the Prifoner$ were again brought to the Bar, and feverally ask’d, if they had confidered of any farther Evidence of Defence they could propofe.. Steak ten Firft, John Axgur had no-more to offer, in his Juftification’ than before. ; 4 ; The Cullemore’s Houfe to drink a Bottle of Beer, which . € 353 ) The fecond; Wiliam Cunningham, the fame ag before. Se estes The Third, Sohn Hipps having the fame Quefti= On put, anfwer’d, that if Yohn Raddon and Henry White had not been abfent, they could have de=- clared many Things in his Favour. Then the Court propoled to every Perfon; wha was an Auditor of the Trial, that any might have Leave to declare upon Oath, any Thing they had heard ohn Raddon or Henry White fay in Behalf Of John Hipps, Prifoner : Upon which, Samuel Law- ford, Conftable, appear’d, and being fworn, de- Clared, That he heard George Raddon fay, that he fhould have been glad to have done the old Boat- fain any Service, meaning Hipps, the Prifoner at - the Bar ; for the faid Raddon had feen him cry for his having confented, tho’ by Force, to join Bunce; &c. the Prifoner having alfo declared to Raddon, _ that he would fight each of the Pyrates fingly,if he Could by that Means get clear of them. This Deponent farther faid, that Raddon told him, he firmly believed the Prifoner at the Bar would have efcaped from the other Pyrates, as foon as he Could have got an Opportunity. The Fourth, Deanis Mackarthy, Prifoner, madé fome faint Excufe, and at length defired Captain Benjamin Hornigold, as farther Evidence for him; who being fworn, declared, That when he the faid 2ornigold went to apprehend the Prifoners, who Were on one of the Exuma Keys, he the faid Pri- foner was one of the firft taken, and feem’d to the faid Hornigold to throw himfelf, and to have De- Pendance, on the Mercy of the Governor: . The Fifth, George Rousfivel, Prifoner, had no far< ther Plea to make. Be “47a ghitne . The Sixth, William Dowling, Prifoner,; only de- fired Thomas Petty to be again call’d, who being worn, only declared, That he the Prifoner had — Vou. I. Ae Offers : C 354 ) Offers made by the Spaniards to go in their Ser vice, but the Prifoner refufed them. The Seventh, William Lewis defired. Richard Turn- fey might be again called, who being fworn, de= clared, That he the Deponent did not fee the faid Pr foner when the Sloop AZary was firft taken, but the Day after he faw the Prifoner under Arms, as attive as any one of the Pyrates. sis ‘The Eighth, Thomas Morris, Prifoner, had little more to fay than pretending that feveral Perfons who were abfent, would fay fomething in his Ju~ flifcation ; but no one prefent declared any Thing in his Favour. The Ninth, George Bendall, Prifoner, had nothing to plead for himfelf;, but defiring Mr. Kerr for Evidence, he was fworn, and declared, That he heard the Prifoner fay, that he wifh’d he had be- gun the Life fooner, for he thought it a pleafant One, meaning that of a Pyrate, and farther de- pofed, that the Prifoner reported, that he had once _ a ftrong Inclination to have fmother’d John Graves E{q; his Majefty’s Collector for the Iflands, as he lay feeble in his Bed, whofe Servant the Prifonet was, but a fhort Time before he thipp’d himfelf for the intended Voyage, when he join’d the 0- ther Prifoners at the Bar in their Mutiny and Pyracy. : David Meredith being alfo fworn, declared, That Bunce did once beat the Prifoner, who told him, that if Bunce, &c. beat him once more, he would defert them the firft Opportunity. The Tenth, Wiliam Ling had nothing farther t@ fay for himfelf. ee Then the Prifoners were remanded to the Fort 5 after which, all Manner of Perfons were comm n= ded by Proclamation to withdraw. / Then - . € 355 ) The the Court fumm’d up the Evidences for the King and the Prifoners, which being debated and confidered, all the Prifoners, except Soha Flipps, Were unanimoufly voted guilty of their Inditt- ment, and the Regifter was ordered to draw up their Sentence. It was thought convenient to re- _ fpite the Judgment on he Hipps, Prifoner, till Monday next 5 and the Court adjourn’d till Four this Afternoon, at which Time being met according to Adjournment, and Proclamation made, the Pri- — foners were brought to the Bar. Then John Hipps - was remanded to the Guardfhip in Irons, and all the reft asked, if they knéw any Caufe why Sen. tence of Death fhould not be pronounced againft them? They had nothing more to fay, but to de> fire fome Length of Time for Repentance. => Then the Sentence was read, as follows: © _ The Court having duly confidered of the Evidence which bath been given both for and againfe you the faid John Augur, William Cunningham, Denuis Mackarthy, Geo. Rounfivel, Wm Dowling, Wm Lewis, Tho. Morris, Geo. Bendall and Wm Ling; and having alfo debated the feveral Circumftances of the Cafes, it is adjudged, that you the faid John Augur, Wm Cun- Dingham, Dennis Mackarthy, Geo. Rounfivel, Wm Dowling, Wm Lewis, Tho. Morris, Geo. Bendall and Wm Ling, are guilty of the Mutiny, Felony, and Pyracy, wherewith you and every of you — Rand accufed. And the Court doth accordingly pafs Sentence, that you the faid John Augut, Wm. Cun= Ningham, Dennis Mackarthy, Geo. Rounfivel, Wn. Dowling, Wm. Lewis, Tho. Morris, Geo; Bendall and Wm, Ling, be carried to Prifon from hence you came, and from thence to the Place of Exe- Cution, where you are to be banged by the Neck till you Liall be dead, dead, dead, and God have Mercy on your Aa iz Souls} a Ce ~ Souls. Given under our Hands this 1oth Day of Oft.ber, Aunog, Dom. 1718, fign’d Wingate Gale, Nathaniel Taylor, Fofias Burgifs, Peter Courant. Woodes Rogers, Wim Fairfax, R bert Beauchamp, Thomas Walker, After Sentence of Death pafs’d upon the Prifo- ners, the Goveraor, as Prefident of the Court, ap- pointed their Execution to be at Ten aClock on ed next in the Morning being the 12th In- Lal epee See Whereupon the Prifoners pray’d for longerTime to repent and prepare for Death; but the Gover- nor told them, that from the Time of their being apprehended, which was on the 15th of November, they ought to have accounted themfelves as con- demn’d by the Laws of all Nations, which was only fealed now ; and that the fecuring them hitherto, and the Favour that the Court had allowed them in making as long a Defence as they could, wholly took up that Time, which the Affairs of the Settle- ment required in working at the Fortifications , be- fides the Fatigue thereby occafion’d to the whole Garrifon in the neceflary Guards, fet over them by the Want of a Goal, and the Garrifon having been very much leffened by Death and Sicknels fince his Arrival; alfo that he was: obliged t0 employ all his People to affift in mounting the great Guns, and in finifhing the prefent Works, with all poflible Difpatch, becaufe of the expected War with Spain, and there being many more Py- rates amongft thefe Iflands, and this Place left de- Ritute of all Relief from any Man of War or Sta- tion Ship, much wanted, join’d to other Reafons "he had, too long to enumerate in Court, he thought, himfJé ( 357 ) himfelf indifpenfably obliged, for the Welfare of the Settlement, to give them no longer Time. Then the Prifoners were ordered to the Place of their Imprifonmer.t in the Fort, where Leave was Siven them to fend for any Perfons to read and pray with them On Friday Mornirg each of the Prifoners were call’d in private, to know if they had any Load upon their Spirits, for A€tions committed as yet unknown to the World, the declaring of which was abfolutely required, to prepare themfelves for ~ _4 fit Repentance; but they each refufed to declare any Thing, as well as making known to the Go- vernor, if they knew of any Confpiracy againft _ the Government. Wherefore, about Ten a-Clock, the Prifoners. Were releas’d of their Irons, and committed to the Charge and Care of Thomas Robinfon, Efqg, commif- fioned Provoft Marfhal for the Day, who, accord- ing to cuftom in fuch Cafes, pinion’d them, Ce. and order’d the Guards appointed to affitt him, to lead them to the Top of the Rampart, fronting the Sea, which was well guarded by the Governcr’s Soldiers and People, to the Number of about 100. At the Prifoners Requett, feveral felect Prayers and Pfalms were read, in which all prefent join’d ; When the Service was enced, Orders was given to the Marfhal, and he conduéted the Prifoners down a Ladder, provided on Purpofe, tothe Foot of the Wall, were was a Gallows eretted, and a black Flag hoifted thereon, and under it a Stage, fupported by three Butts, on which they afcended by another Ladder, where the Hangman faften’d the Cords. They had three Quarters of an Hour allowed ur- der ‘the Gallows, which was fpest by them in fnging of Pfalms, and fome Exhortations to their Old Conforts, and the other Speftators, who got ®% near to the Foot of the Gallows as the Mar- Aa3 fhal’s | : € 358 ) ee fhal’s Guard would fuffer them. When the Go- vernor ordered the Marfhal.to make ready, and all the Prifoners expecting the Launch, the Go- vernor thought fic to order George Rounfivel to be untied, and when brought off the Stage, the Buts _ having Ropes about them, were hawl’d away , UP- on which, the Stage fell, and the Prifoners were fufpended. A fhort Account of the Prifoners executed, Firft, John Augur, being about 40 Years of Age, had been a noted Matter of Veffels at Ja- maica, and fince among the Pyrates; but on his accepting of his Majefty’s A& of Grace, and Re- commendations to the Governor, he was, notwith- ‘ flanding, entrufled with a good Veffel and Cargo, in which betraying his Truft, and knowing him- felf guilty of the Indi&ment, he all along appeat- ed very penitent, and neither wafh’d, fhav’d, oF fhifted his old Cloaths, when carried to be exe- cuted; and when he had a fmall Glafs of Wine given him on the Rampart, drank it with Withes for the good Succefs of the Babama Wands and the Governcr. The Second, William Cunningham, aged 45, had been Gunner with Thatch the Pyrate, who being alfo confcious of his own Guilt, was feemingly pe nitent, and behaved himfelf as fuch. The Third, Dennis Mackarthy, aged 28, who had alfo been formerly a Pyrate, but accepted of the King’s At of Grace; and the Governor had made him an Enfign of the Militia, being recom= mended as a fober civiliz’d Perfon, which Com- miffion he had at the Time of his joining the Pyrates, which very much aggravated his othes Crimes. ~ was to die, and the Morning came, without h ‘petted During his Imprifonment, he behaved himfelf tolerably well; but when he thought ct is €X i Caiga pected Reprieve, he fhifted his Cloaths, and wore long blue Ribbons at his Neck, Wrifts, Knees, and ~Cap; and when on the Rampart, look’d cheer fully round him, faying, He kvew the Time when there were many brave Felloms on the Iftand, who would not have fuffered him to die like a Dog; and at the fame Time pull’d off his Shooes, kicking them» ~ over the Parapet of the Fort, faying, He had pro- misd not to die with his Shooes oa; 40 defcended the Fort Wall, and afcended the Stage, with as much Agility and ina Drefg of a Prize-Fighter; when mounted, he exhorted the People, who were at the Foot of the Walls, to have Compaffion on him, but, however willing, they faw too much Power over their Heads to attempt any Thing in his Favour... ; The Fourth, William Dowling, of about 24 Years of Age, had been a confiderable Time amongft the Pyrates, of a wicked Life, which his Majefty’s A& of Grace did not reform; his Behaviour was. very loofe on the Stage, and after his Death, fome of his Acquaintance declared, he had confeis’d to them, that he had murder’d his Mother before he lett Ireland. The. Fifth, William Lewis, aged about 34 Years, ashe had been a hardy Pyrate and Prize Fighter, © affetted an Unconcern at Death; but heartily de- fired Liquors to drink with his Sufferers on'the Stage, and with the Standers by. The Sixth, Thomas Morris, aged about 22, had been a very incorrigible Youth and Pyrate, and _ feem’d to have very little Anxiety of Mind by his. frequent Smiles when at the Bar, being drefs’d with red Ribbons as Mackarthy was with blue, he faid, going over the Ramparts, We have a new Go~ vernor, but a bar(b Ones, and a little before he was ~turn’d off, faid aloud, that he might have been a. Aa 4 greater 7, = © 366) | freater Plague to thefe Iflands, and now will’d he had been fo. me Sixth, George Bendall, aged about 18, tho’ he faid, he bad never been a Pyrate before, yet he had all the villainous Inclinations that the mojff profligate Youth could be infetted with, his Behaviour was fullen. The Eighth, William Ling, aged about 30, not taken Notice of before the lait Attempt, behaved him(elf as becoming a true Penitent, and was not heard to fay any other than by Reply to Lewis, when he demanded Wine to drink, that Water was more fuitable to them at that Time. It was obferved that there were but few (befide - the Governor’s Adherents) among the Spectators, who had not deferved the fame Fate, but pat= don’d by his Majefty’s A& of Grace. 364 iY of Captain VA N E, E, have given what Account came to our : Hands of Charles Vane in the firft Vo- dume, beginning at the Time he left Providence on the Governor’s Arrival ; but we have fince had fome Particulars fent us, which relate _ to Pyracies, both before and after that Date. Inthe latter End of March 1718, he, with about — 12 more lewd Fellows, who had {quander’d all their Money got by former Villanies, took a Canoe, and went out on the old Account. Soon after their fetting out they made Prize of a Sloop belonging to Samaica, brought her into Potters Key, where they came to an Anchor, and put all the Hands on Shore, except the Mafter, to whom they promis’d to re- turn his Sloop as foon as they met with another more fit for their Purpofe; which foon after hap- pen’d, for cruizing off Harbour Iland in the begin- ning of April, they took the Lark Sloop, which had been taken from the Pyrates by Captain Pierce, in the Phenix Man of War, who fitted her out with a Cargo to trade at St. Auguftin’s. He brought his Prize into Providence Harbour, with his black Enfign hoifted, in Defiance of the above named Man of War, which he loudly threaten’d toburn. Vane, at Providence, augmented his Num- ber of Men to 7s, failed in fearch of Booty, and on the 4th of July return’d with a French Ship of 20 Guns, a French Brigantine laden with Sugar, In- ea digo, ( 362 ) digo, Brandy, Claret, White Wine, and other Merchandize , the DrakeSloop, Yohu Draper, Mafter, which he took in his Paffage from Providence to Harbour Wland, and plunder’d of a confiderable Sum of Money, fhifting into her fome Sugars out of the French Brigantine ; the Ulfer Sloop, Foha Fredd, Mafter, laden with Timber from Andros Hfland, into this Veffel he put 70 Casks of Sugar 3, and the Eagle Sloop, Robert Brown, Matter, bound to South-Carclina, which he took with a two-mafted Boat, commanded by Edward England, his Quarter Mafter ; he put on board this laft 20 Terfes of Sugar, 6 of Bread, and fome other Things. In ‘the Harbour he {eized on the Laneafter Sloop, Neat Walker, Mafter, and the Dove Sloop, William Har- vis, Matter, defigned for Jamaica, which he plun- der’d of what he thought proper, and fhifted 22 Hogtheads of Sugar, fome Spanifh Hides -and old Rigging. He had the Impudence to come afhore with his Sword in Hand, threaten to. burn the principal ' Houfes of the Town, and to make Examples of many of the People; and though he committed ne Murders, his Behaviour was extreamly infolent ‘to all who were not as great Villains as himfelf.. He reign’d here as Governor 29 Days, ftopp’d all: Veifels which came in, and would fufter none to. go out, being inform’d of a Governor being fent _ from England, he {wore, while he was in the Har- -bour, he would fuffer no other Governor than him-. felf. He clean'd and fitted the French Ship, with. Intent to vific the Coaft of Brazil, and defign’d zo failin 3 or 4 Days ; but the Governor appear- “jing on the 24th, made him change his Refolution,, and think of accepting a Pardon, if ic might be; granted on his own Terms, as will appear by the: . Letter which he fent off by a Boat to the Go-, Vern ory, iS Sagal en neato Ma Rite . € 363.) vernor, and of which the following is an exat& Copy. Fuly the 24th, 1778. ¢ ¢ ¢ e: Y OUR Excellency may pleafe co underftand that we are willing to accept his Majefty’s moft gracious Pardon on the following Terms Vix. _£ That you will faffer us to difpofe’ of all our .Goods now in our Poffeffion. Likewife, to a& as we think fit with every Thing belonging to us, as his Majefty’s A& of Grace {pecifies. = . « If your Excellency fhall pleafe to comply with this, we fhall, with all Readinefs, accept of his * Majefty’s A& of Grace. If not, we are obliged © to ftand on our Defence. Soconclude Your humble Servants, Charles Vane, and Com 3 ‘ The Sufperfcription was : Pen _ To his Excellency the Governor of New Providence, And at the Bottom of it. —— We w,; ae wait a {peedy 2 ¢ € ¢ The Governor could not get in that Night, but was forced to keep at Sea, fo that Mr. Vane could not fo {peedily have an Anfwer as his Excellency defign’d, which he intended to carry himfelfé About Four that Afternoon the Rofe Man of War and Shark Sloop got in, and were faluted with four Shot from Vase, which, however, did no other Damage than the cutting the Rofe’s Rigging, In the Evening Captain Whitney fent his Lieutenant _» on Board Vane, who was higher up the Harbour in the French Ship. They detained this Gentleman two Hours, and the Crew, moft of which was drunk, treated him, fome with Threats, fhewing the black Flag, and fome with Contempt and Ri- _ dicule C364 ) ; dicule, and order’d him back to tell his Captain their Refolution was to fight it out to the laft. When Captain Whitney fired the eight a Clock . Gun, Vane did the like with Shot, dire&ted at the Rofe. At Ten he pointed all the Guns of the French Ship (double loaded) at the Man of War, and, after fetting Fire to her, went with 40 Hands into a Sloop belonging to one Yates. As the Freach Man burnt, the Guns fired, and cut fome more of the Rofe’s Rigging. Captain Whitney apprehending Danger from the fir’d Ship, together with the Shark Sloop, cut and put out to Sea, which gave Vane an Opportunity he laid hold on, to take what he thought fit off Shore, and to force the beft Carpenter and Pilot in the Ifland on Board him. When he had done, he went to, and lay at Potters o all Night, and the next Morning got under Sail. ; : His Excellency difpatch’d after him the Buck Sloop and another fmall one, both well mann’d and fitted, which gain’d while he was upon a Wind, and came, before he clear’d the Eaft End of the Ifland, within Gun-Shot ; but he eafing out his Main-Sheet, and fetting his Flying-Jibb, left them foon after; wherefore, Night coming on, and their Purfuit being fruitlefS, they returu’d. Soon after Vane fent the Governor of Providence Word, he would make him a Vifit, and burn his Guardthip, for fending two Sloops to chafe him inftead of anfwering his Letter. The 30th of August he took the Neptune of 400 Tans, and the Emperor of 200 Tuns, the Particulars of which are in the fubjoin’d Proteft. The 9th of September he arrived at Allens Key in a Spanifh Brigantine ; he had before taken a Spanifh Ship of the Aavanna; here he forced on Board a - Pilot, took a Sloop and went to Green Turtle Key. Thave - i ft ‘4 Pi ¢ ( 365.) I have only toadd: This Pyrate, whofe Death is fet down in the firft Volume, betray’d the Coward when at the Gallows, and died in Agonies equal to, his Villainies, which he gave no Ground to believe proceeded from the Apprehenfions of a future State, but the Fear of Death. He fhew’d not the leaft Remorfe for the Crimes of his paft Life, which was taken Notice of by the Spectators of his deferved Punifhment, and told me by a wor- thy Gentleman who fav, Juftice done on him at Gallows Point on Port Royal. The Proteft of Captain King, Commander of the . Neptune Hagboat. si . Y this publick Inftrument of Proteft be it : made known and manifeft, that on the 30th * Day of Auguft 1718, Fohn King, lately Comman- * der of the Neptune Hagboat of London, but now © in the Ifland of Providence, one of his Majefty’s © Bahama Ulands, came before me Woodes Rogers, © Efq; Governor, Gc. and declared to me, that... on the Day and Date above-written, he failed with the faid Ship Neptune Hagboat over the Bar of Carolina, in Company with three more Ships bound for London, viz. the Emperor, Cap- tain Arnold Powers, Commander, and the Pink Antamafia, Captain Dumford, Commander, and the Pink 5 Captain Evers, Commander, and. about two Hours after he was over the Bar of South-Carolina, he faw four Sail of Veffels ftand- ing fome one Way, fome another; but one of them being a Brigantine, gave Chafe, and, in about two Hours time, came up with his Ship with a black Flag flying, and after having fir’d feveral Guns, demanded him to ftrike, and to come on Board the Brigantine, commanded by € one Charles Vane, a Pyxate, who detained him and oS © four RPA AAR RRR HAA KRARAAR CAnRanna nnn & c € c c ¢ ( 366 )- a CEE fout of his Men on board the faid Brigantine, and fent feveral of his Men on board the ZVep- tune ; and when they came on board they com- manded him to make Sail, and began to rob and ‘rifle as they thought fit, ec. taking only the Neptune and Emperor with them ; for by the Infor- mation of the Captain of the Neptune and Empe- rer, the other two were loaded with Pitch and Tar, which was not for their Turn, fo they would not give Chace to them ; but ina {mall Time after they had held a Confultation toge- ther, they concluded to carry the Ship Neptune and Emperor, with their Crew, to Green Turtle Key, on Abbaco, fo fteered their Courfe accord- ingly for the faid Place. About four Days after John King, Commander of the Neptune declares, “he fell fick of a violent Fever on board the faid © Vane’s Brigantine, and Vane asked him, if he | ¢ € ¢ 4 € C4 c e c € € c c ¢ € c ¢ c ¢ wanted, and then took their Leaves of the faid © Ships and Captains, wifhing them a good Voy- would go on board his own Ship? he readily anfwered, Yes, if he pleafed; fo hoifted out his Boat, and fent him on board. ‘And about four Days afterwards the Pyrates held a Confultation on board their own Veffel. The Captain, and moft of the Officers, were for taking what they wanted out of the Ship Neptune and Emperor, and fo let them go about their Bufinefs , but the reft of the Company was not willing for it, be- caufe, they faid, What fhould they clean their Veffel by ? And what Defence fhould they have whilft they were cleaning ? So concluded to pro- ceed on to Green Turtle Key, which they did, and arrived there on or about the 12th of September 1718, and began to make Preparations for ca- reening their Veffels, which held about three Weeks, and at the latter End of this Time they had taken from both Ships fuch Things as they © age oy ” A OAOAARRRAA HA AA KF AAAAAKAABHAABHAAA RAAB € € € € C 367 ) age home, fo fet Sail; but ina little Time after made a Sloop coming into the Harbour of Greez Turtle Key, perceiving her to come towards them without any Fear, came to an Anchor again, and fent away the two Maft Boat after them. with about twelve Men in her, expettiag it was a Sloop from Providence with fifty Men, according to Promife, when they left Providence, but in three Hours, or thereabouts, they {poke with her, which gave them Account that they came from Providence , and alfo laying down the State and Condition of that Ifland, it being the ex- pected Sloop aforefaid, out of which fome of the Men entered with Vane, but know not how ma* ny. And likewife the faid King tarther declares, that he heard fome of the Pyrates fay, that Sloop had brought Ammunition and Provifi+ ons, @c. and the Commander’s Name was one. Nicholas Woodal. The faid King asked what was the beft News at Providence ? They replied, None good: But bid him ask not many Queftions, but fit up his Ship, in order to go for England ot Providence ; if the latter, they would take Care to fee us to Providence, and did believe they fhould go in and furrender themfelves up to the King’s Pardon. The next Morning, being very much difturb’d with the News that the Sloop brought from Providence by the {aid Woodall, they voted to Maroon Captain Walker, but that did not take Place, fo put it to Vote again to maroon and deftroy the Neptuze, which they did with cutting away the Mafts, Rigging, Sails, Beams, and firing aGun, double loaded with Shot down her Hold, and totally difabled her from ever proceeding her Voyage home to England. And the faid King does verily believe, that the faid Woodall’s Sloop-coming there, was the Occafion “of all the aforefaid Mifchief, believing what © was \ ¢ 368 ) ® was done was to pay him for his great Faa © vour done them. And farther, the faid Captain © King fays, that fome of the Pyrates, who were * his Friends, told him, that if that Sloop had: © not come, this Damage would not have been 3 © and that they were very forry for it;. fo by the © faid Vane’s Order they went to work to load this © Woodall’s Sloop with Rice, Pitch, Tar, Deer Skins, © Sails, Rigging, ec. After fhe was loaded, being © the next Day, they all failed together as Py- © rates, taking with them one of Captain -Walker’s © Sons, with his Sloop, to tend on them, and as © Pilot ; but before they got out of the Channel; arrived to the Ships Neptune aud Emperor, a Sloop from Providence, fent by the Governor to hear what was the beft News there, hearing that Vane was there. The Captains of the faid © Sloop, Hornigold and Cockram told the Captains © Powers and King, that they were come by the Go- © yvernor’s Order to affift them in what they could, © who accordingly did, with making Difpatch to © Providence, to acquaint his Excellency the Gover- © nor what fad Condition they were in by the Py- © rates hard Ufage, leaving them without Provi- © fions, Ge. So the faid Captains Hornigold and -. © Cockram fet Sail that Night, and in three or four © Days after took the Sloop Woolfe, Nicholas Wood- € all, Mafter, that-had traded with Charles Vaney © the Pyrate, and carried him to his Excellency * the Governor of Providence, who feized his Vel- © fel, and confined him Prifoner. By that Time © Vane came in a fecond time to Green Turtle Key; © and began a fecond Plunder, taking from the © Ships Rice, Rigging, Mafts, Sails, Gc. from both € Ships, and told the faid King, that if he offered . © totouch his Prize he would burn her, and him “inher, if ever he catched him again; fo failed nanan away the fecond time: And about three Weeks & after _* Carpenters had dore what could be done to € 369 ) ‘ after arrived the faid Captains Hornigold and ‘ Cockram; with. five Sloops from Providence, fent ot down by the Governor, to fave what Goods they (could out of the Neptune, that was in fo much: ° Danger. The next Day they began to load the 3 Sloops,, and got them loaded in two Days, fo ‘ failed away. . The faid King.came to Providence : to confule and agree with. the Governor what to * do in fuch a Cafe. After fome Time {pent : it was concluded to fit out the Willing Mind (with Guns and Men; enough to ftand an En. gagements with Vane, and fell the Neptune; and ina few Days after, did accordingly put her UP Publick to Sale, and it was thus fold to ; one Mr. George Hooper, for feventy one Pounds ( cutreat Money of Fanaica, he being the Perfon : that bid. the moft Money for her. © The 3 Willing Mind being ficted, failed from Providence : the 15th of November 1718, and arrived atGreex : Turtle Key the Toth, and took the Goods out of ‘i the Neptune, being in a very bad Condition - and ‘ after they had taken out all her Cargo, findin the Neptune to be better than they did Sebati: | “ and, having a fait Wind, brought both Ships up © to Providence, the Neptune got in fafe, but the © Willing Mind ftruck on the Bar, and {prung a : Leak, infomuch that fhe was.forced to unload and careen, and, when down, found her to ba. © very bad, a Piece of her main Keel being gone > © fo was forced to haw! her afhore > and when the ) her © the could not be got up again by all the Stieigth : that could be made, and tried fer ec , breaking and tearing all to pieces, bat all tc , 0 Purpofe; fo the Governor order’d a Warrant 3 of Survey on her, and was found by the Survey. ors not fufficient to proceed any further, beip . very much damaged in her Wood-Wotk ant Vor. I. Bb. © Trone 2 oka , | - Jron-Work, Gc. Whereupon the faid King” 2 ; ang aud . © fired a fecond gee pees a ee eae Se . j bas iw ty : aM: : ing i ad ‘Condition. . ¢ AB ARG AR on . , Te a beet OF aprons there being mo Vefiels 7 & NE 4X8 IRIRIRIEAT ABIR 7 sre therefore is now g°- siarts ¢ : to England, he f a Hage ee Paltia to confit with Mr. Richard Splats © ine to C fm) & spite a bab vf she thipp’d thie Goods ‘én’ board, and : eid J Of Cap tan B OWEN, A eA ae i be dé ith th © of him what further may be done with the % Good and that he may rightly apprize all ph 1 : ; we f the ; a8 z ‘ 224 or it F ‘ : ¢ concern’d, “of the prefent ‘Condition of \i . 1Ould the Reader conceive the Pains we have ‘ Ship and Goods a has sey eee dl , a been oe collect mies for the compofing © pion of Captain Thomas ae Fi Biimeht Pertors sin ho La ahi of t i, ives of the Pyrates, ¢ Thompfon, and edith ine a Con ation the oa | gr ‘ ey we have taken to deliver n0- © who ate well acquainte ag aoa Soontthe rid ning ut the Truth, he would readily forgive, é Ship aid G oods are He in; _ ‘abe ae ayer 6 eee be Ape to commend our placing thofe « King, atid one of the y naerds roteft againtt $ piNeic ars in ay e Appendix of the fame Book, © Ship Nepruze, did, and doth h Ss ye ¢ the Mari- Which we could not poffibly obtain (notwith- © the faid Charles Vane, and bis cA: o to the Bri- | ftanding our diligent Enquiries) before the Lives © ners, beat Corte Sseliion fly ad Ra Rishon the Book in a manner ready %6 i efai : 2 c : : ‘ Sein uyptaling boarding, entering and a ah What we have faid in’ the foregoing Part of ‘ Be dnass oa for finking and difabling gee g this Volume, of Captain Bower, may be depen- e Harbour of Green Turtle Key, ae Eas is ded on aga but as we had not that Cer- © tune, and for all Damages ate su other ae of i ee we now. have, we rather © thereby. to the Owners, geet Ramony where chofe to be filent than impofe on. our Readers ¢ Perfons concern’d therein. Inte 1 y: nigeals with Fables of our own Invention: We have fince ¢ of we have hereunto fet our Hand an ; learn’d (and it is with Reafon we can depend ¢ this sth Day of February, Anno Dom. 17 18-9 on our Account, having it from one who perto- “Surat Coram me boc John King," oe nally knew, and-often convers’d with him) that die Dicem. Februarts, “pd The Mar 4. tee he was born of creditable Parents, in the Ifland ~ “Woodes Rogers. John Mor Of Bermudas, who took Caré to give him a good Seay 73h > Education anfwerable to the Vocation he was de- fign’d for, which was the Sea. . The firft Voyage he made was to Carolina, of » Where fome Merchants ‘finding him every Way moe ‘Capable, and that he was a fober intelligent Man, Rave him the Command of a Ship, and fent' him Pe erp eOUNe 39 5 rf ‘0 the Weft-Indies. He continued in this Employ e re | Bho oe for ee for feveral Years, but one Voyage, in his pee he had the Misfortune to fall in with, an oe taken, by a French Pyrate, who having no Arti . CG if on board, detain’d Captain Bowen to navigate thet — {fel , and after cruizing fome Time in the Weft- : a "hhap’d their Courfe for the Guiney a where they made feveral Prizes, and took feve 5 good Artifts; but having Experience of sri Bowen, he could by no Means prevail on t se for a Difcharge, tho’ notwithftanding the sage he was to them, they treated him as roughly a thev did their other Priloners, oF eens ate ready taken Notice in Captain White’s Life. They (the Pyrates) doubled the Cape of Gite Hore, fteer’d for, refrefh’d at Johanna, and fee made their Voyage to the Eaft-Indies, loft t i. Ship, as is already fhewn 1n the above Life, ¢ io need not be here repeated) on Madagafcar : ae other Particularities which are not fet sony, Bowen's own Life, will be found in thofe of ke Companions 3 as his going with Captain Read ; ae taking the Grabb, the coming te Mayotta, eae from thence in the Grabb to Madagafcar ; the J ee ing of that Vetiel and Fourgerte s5 the taking . . . NS d Speaker , his fucceeding Booth in the Commants and his Death at Afafcarenas. 373 CASAS TOTES et OF : Capt. Nathaniel North, And his Crev,. E have placed this Life in the Appen- dix, which will not perhaps be thonghe .a proper Place; but we could not ga- ther the Particulars, which were collected ont of feveral different Journals, Time enough to infert it in the Body of the Book, and therefore, thought of referving this Life for Part of another Volume; but when we had compiled it, and found it was a Sort of Recapitulation of the Ad- ventures of the Madagafcar Pyrates which went — before, we judged it more proper to give it in the Appendix than to feparate this Gentleman from — his Companions; and we were the rather induc’d - to this, as the Reader will here find an Account Of Bowen’s Teath, which we had not learn’d’ at the Time we wrote his Life, the Papers which We got after a long Search, and which has fur- nifh’d us with fome other Particulars af that Ro- ver’s Life, not being at that Time to be found, Aptain North was born at Bermudas, and was \_4 the Son of a Sawyer, which Bufinefs he him- felf was bred up to, but teok, at laft, to the Seas, a the Age of 17 or 18, thipping himfelF Cook = B 3 on 374 Of Captain NORTH. On board- a Sloop, built at Bermuda, for fome Gentlemen of Barbadoes, with Defign to. fit her out for a: Privateer. She was bound to her Ow= ners, but the Mafter took Santa Udas in the Ways and loaded with Salt. When they came to Bar- badoes all the Crew was prefs'd, and Worth with his Companions, were;put on board the Referve- _ . The Mafter applied himfelf to the Governor, and got all his.Men clear?d, North excepted, who, as he'was a Lad, was neglected, and left/on boar¢ the Man of War, which: foon after fail’'d for J4- maica, fome Time before ‘the Referve’ was relie- ved from this Station, he laid Hold of an Oppor- tunity to run away, and fhipp’d himfelf on board a Sugar Drover, in which Way of Life he.con- tinued about two Years, and being an able Sailor, tho’ no Artift;‘he was offer’d to go'Mafter,of one of thefe Coafiers, which he refus’d, and went on board‘‘a Privateer. ede ues The firft Voyage he made, as'a Privateer, they took a couple of good Prizes, which made, every Mar’s Sharé ‘very confidetable; but North, as he had got his ‘Money lightly, ‘fo he {pent it, ma- king the Companions of: his. Dangers the Compa- - ions of his Diverfions, ‘or rather joining himielf with them} and following their Example; which all (who are“acquainted with ‘the Way of Life of .4 fuccefSful Szmaica Privateer) know is not an Bx- ample of the’ greateft Sobriety and Oeconomy- | His Money being all fpent, he took the famé Method for'a Recruit, that is, he went a fecond - Time a Privateering, and met’ with fuch Succels, that he engag’d very heartily in this Courfe of Life, and~made “feveral lucky Cruizes. ~ Some Time after he grew tir’d, thought of trading, ad fthipp’d himfelf on board a Briga tine, bound for the Spanifh Coalt, commanded bY. one Captain Reesby: This Veffel went both on the te : Trading \. Of Captain NoRTH. >, 375 ‘Trading and Privateer Account, fo that the Men fhipp’d for: half Wages, and equal Shares of what Prizes they fhould. make, in the fame Manner, as" to. the Shares, as on board a Privateer; their. trading .anfwer’d very poorly, and their priva~. teering Bufinefs, ftill worfe, for they return’d. without. making any Prize. aa / They were forced. to, leave the Spanifh Coaft, on Account. of a Spanifh Guarda la Cofta, of 40 Guns and Three hundred and. fifty’ Frenchmen, comman- ded by..a Captain of. the fame Nation. When ‘they made the. Iland of Famaica, they fell in. with. Bluefields, off which Place.two French Priva-, teer-Sloops were cruizing, one of which was for- merly a Privateer of Jamaica, called the Paradox ; they..immediately clapp’d; Capt. Reesby on. board, taking him for, a Trader,. come from the Spani(h. Coaft,.and weakly mann’d; however, they were, foon made fenfible of the Miftake, for they came to fetch Wool, and one of them went away. fhorn; I.mean: Reesby took one of them, and the other, was obliged toa. good Pair of Heels for his Safe-. , ty. Reesby loft. ten Men, killed outright in the Engagement, and had feven wounded ; the latter, tho’. he had, made but-a broken Voyage, he put afhore at Blusfields, and ordered great Care to be taken of them, at. the Owners Expence: Here he took in frefh Provifion, and then beat up to Port Royal, where Reesby paid them yery honourably, gave them a handfome Entertainment, and begg’d they would. not leave him, as he had a very” great Value for them all; but for North particu- larly, who was a good Swimmer, manag’d a Cas roe, with great Dexterity, and fear’d nothing... “Upon this Defire of the Captain’s, Wore) arid the greater Part ftaid afhore till Captain Reesdy” was refitted, and went.a fecond Voyage with him’ to the Coaft, at feventeen Dollars a Month, and. Bb 4 pena SU 376 Of Captain NoRTH. ; no Share; they carried 300 Negroes, befide Bale Goods ; they ftaid four Months on the Coaft, and difpos’d* of all the Slaves and Goods to great Ad- vantage. .Upon their Return to Jamaica, after fome Stay on the Ifland, Captain Reesby not gomg out again, North went once more a Privateering, ~ and made a confiderable Booty. While North owas afhore after'a Cruize, he was prefs'd on board the Mary Man of War: He made a Cruize in her to the Spanifh Coaft, and return’d to Fumaica ; but” hearing the Afary was foon to go to England, he,’ ard three more, refolv’d to fwim’ afhore from the Keys, where the Men of War lie, but he was ta- ken as he was going off the Head, and whipp'd 5 he, however, found Means to make his el before the Ship left the Mland, and went on boar the Neptune Sloop, a Privateer, commanded: by Captain Lycence, then Lieutenant of the Refervey who, while the Ship was in the Carpenter s Hands, got a Commiffion of the Governor to take a Cruize,~ Captain Mofes, who commanded the Re- ferve, went on board their Sloop, under the Com- mand of his Lieutenant, for Diverfion only: They cruized off Aifpaniola, where they met with a French Letter of Mart Merchant Man, of 18 sot and 118 Men, who had the Day before engage the Sman Man of War, and fhook her off. The Neptune attack’d her, and Captain Mofes . as wounded one of the firf, and earried down 3 ine order’d to board, but the Guarentee who fteer’d, miftook the Helm, the Sloop fell oft, and the French pouring in a Volley of fmall ee ~ Captain Lycence was kilPd, which being tol Hs Mofes, as the Surgeon drefs’d him, he sl Horth to the Helm, bid them not be difcouraged, and he would be upon Deck immediately. ‘egos dipgly he came up as foon as drefs'd, laid the } ; they made a very obfti- Ship on peer where they y ae nc AN chy ny AR ache ATA nen no } ; Of Captain NortH. 377 nateRefiftance , but the French Captain being kill’d, who. received eleven Shot before he dropp’d, they at length, became Mafters. | ‘ a ~The Privateer loft ten Men, and twenty were wounded: The French had fifty Men killed and wounded, among whom was the Captain, who had. received two Shot, as he was going down ‘to the Surgeon to get his Blood ftaunch’d, and came upon Deck juft as he was boarded, where, encou- raging his Men, he was diftinguifhed and aimed at. : : ‘When they had brought the Prize into Samai- ca, asthe was an Englifh Bottom, built at Briftol, aud called the Crown, the former Owners fued to axe. half the Ship and Cargo, and recovered one third.. _ Worth went again a Privateering, Captain Aofes his Ship being not fitted, he would take a fecond Cruize, and North with him. Some Time after their Return, Captain Adofes being a cruizing in the Referve, North, who was afhore, was pref{s’d on board the Afiftance Man of War; and on the Re- ferve’s coming, being recommended by Captain AMofes to his own Captain, he was handfomely treated, and made one of the Barge’s Crew: He was very eafy till the Afjiffance was order’d to England, and then, as he was apprehenfive of go- ing into a cold Climate, he took his Leave of the. Man of War, and faid nothing. He then went on. board a Privateer again, and made feveral Prizes,two of which were Englifh Bottoms, and fued for by. former Owners; North thinking it hard - to venture his Life, and have Part of his Prize Money taken away, and the Prefs being hot in Famaica, he refolved to fail no more with the Englifh;, but went to Curafoe into the Dutch Service, and fail’d with a Spanifh Trader to the Coaft of New Spain feveral Voyages. In the laft he ade, =: they 378 «Of ‘Captain NoRTH. they.’ were chafed afhore by ascouple fi French” Sloops, one; of which was commanded by a°Datch-" man, named Lawrence, who, with “his Comrade,’ took Poffeffion of their Veffél, “and rifled her 5: the Grew of the Prize’ called ‘to them, and asked, aif’ they would give them: good Quarters? which they’ promis’d 5 ‘took: them’ all on ‘boaid, and ufed ’em~ very handfomely. fecnid viasg cos stOb geo ~Phe Freach’ gave’ the Prifoners “a {mall ‘Sloop’ they took’a while! after, and»they returned to Curafo. | Aaah “He having now forgot his Refentment, ‘he re- turn’d to Jamaica, and went on board and cruiz’d® in a‘Spanifh Barca Longa, of to'Guns, commanded ® by Captain Lovering; born at Jamaica’, they cruiz’d* three Months in the Weft Indies, and making but? afimall Hand of it, they put for Newfoundland, to. try their Fortune on the. Banks :°Here they met, a Man*of War, who renew’d” their .Commiffion’ - for fix Months longer. The firftPrize they made was a French Ketch, with a’ SpanifhPafs, and would have pals’ for a: Spaniard, bit by ftridt Search, and threatiing of the Men, they difcovered her to be what. {hé’ really was, tho’fhe had, as 2 Spaniard, flipp’d theo’ the Fingers of a Man ‘of War before. Seid. They carried their Prize into’ Harbour, went again upon the Cruize, met with a French’ Letter of Mart Merchant Man, a Briftol-built Ship, called the Pelican, of 18 Guns, and Seventy five Men, half laden with Fish: This Ship ftood them a long . Argument; they clapp’d her on board, and two of their Men enter’d, but mifing lathing, the Barca Longa fell a-ftern, and the two Men were made Prifoners 5 however, they came’ up with het n board’a fecond Time, and again, clapp’d hero carried her into the fame Port where they ha left the Ketch. Sey Se eee i a =e Of Captain NorTH. 379 > They after this put to Sea again,. i difcovered by the French Sei slem ie Aik we went into St. Afary’s Bay, where they. fell in wilt a large French Fly-Boat, of 800 Tons, eighty Men, and 18 Guns, and laden ..with Fith : They chafed and came up with her, under French Colours - when they were pretty near the Frenchman the ; haled, and ask’d, whence they came? a Cutenfoy : Man, at the Bowfprit End, anfwer’d; from Pew Guavers; that they had been cruizing on the Banks, and were going into the Bay. for Refrefhment. The Frenchman bid them come no nearer, but feuik their Boat on board; they keeping on the Chafe he fired at them, they .did not mind this,. fish run up a long Side and boarded him; the iEvenich ran to their clofe Quarters, and difputed the Shi three Quarters of an Hour, when they. all call for, Quarters except one Man, who wou’d tak Ae a ee pas into the Thick of he Enelifh, and wounded fey ” he cpa by Sores ee _ They carried this Prize to join the: ot ; turning all the Prifoners ies except ge neceffary to. condemn their Prizes; they ftood with a Fleet of four Sail, for Rhode Iland. ; Here they condemn’d the Fly-Boat and Ketch, but found a great Difficulty in getting the Peli- - ean condemn’d, the Englifh Owners putting in their Claim ; but, at length, a Scotch La i their Bufinefs, upon Hea 300 |. in his cE to bear the Charge of any future Suit.. Captain Lovering dying here, the Ship’s Company bought the Pelican, broke up the Barca Longa, fent her Owners their Shates, and got a Commiffion for the Mafter to cruize Southward as far as the Line and to be valid for eighteen Months certain two Years allowing for Accidents, : “They 380 Of Captain NoRTH. They fitted this Ship for a long Voyage, Out of the Joint Stock of the Company ; but Irom Hoops being fcarce in New England, they oe obliged to take Casks hoop’d with Wood, whicl J mention, becaufe it proved the Ruin of their Voyage to the Eajt Indies for a whole Year. " They being fitted for the Sea, they fet Sail an fteer’d for the Cape of Good Hope, which they doubled in the Month of June, made the heft of theic Way to Madagafcar, and went into Auguftine Bay, where they vidtualled and watered, but be- fore this was done it was Auguft, which was too late to go to the Eaf-Indies; which they propos d to do with Defign, to cruize on the Moors, not intending to pyrate among the Europeans, but ho- neftly and quietly to rob what Adoors fell in their ‘Way, aud return home with clean Contciences, and clean, but full Hands, within the limited Time of their Commiffion. From Auguftine they went to Johanna, and the Provifions they had falted up at Afadagafcar not being well done, it began to fpoil; this and their Cloaths wanting Repair, made them defperate- ly refolve to take the King of Yohanna and make him ranfome himfelf, but the Mafter wou’d not take Charge of the Ship, being unacquainted with the Coaft: They cruiz’d among the Iflands, lan- ded at Comare, and took the Town, but found no Booty, excepting fome Silver Chains, and check’d Linnen. From hence they went to A/zyorra, where they took in a Frenchman who had been moroon- ed there, and maintain’d by the King ; they con- fulted with him about the furprizing and taking his Town. The Frenchman was averfe to it, as he owed him the Obligation of being preferved 5 however, he was in their Hands, and muff do as they would have him: They furrounded the King’s Houfé after they had beea three Days = in Of Captain NorTH. 38% in his Town, and took him and all the Inhabi- tants; but the King’s Son made his Way thro’ the thickeft of them with his Cutlafh, tho’ he was fhot afterward. The Pretence they made ufe of for this inhofpitable Manner, was, that the King had poifon’d the Crew of a Ship, which was their Confort; he denied it, as well he might, for they themfelves never heard of a Ship of the Name they gave this fictitious one. The King. they carried on board, the other Prifoners -they Put into a Sort of a Temple, with a Guard over them of 2:6 Men, ee ~The Alarm being given in the Country, th Natives came down in a Body of fome Thoulands, -and attack’d the Guard; but the Ship hearing the Fire, and feeing the Hills‘covered with Blacks, difcharged feveral great Guns, loaded with Pa- tridge, which making a very great Slaughter, ob- liged them to retire. The King ranfom’d himfelf for fome Silver Chains to the Value of a thoufand Dollars, and for what Provifion they demanded; and at the fetting him afhore, fwore Allegiance to them as Mafters of the Country, and took an Oath be- fides, never to poifon any more white Men. Atter this notable Expedition, they ftaid here a Fortnight, tho’? always on their Guard, and then went back for Augu/fine with about 20 Slaves, they carried away with them for Servants, Here a Sicknefs coming among them, they built Huts afhore; they loft, notwithftanding all | their Care and Precaution, their Captain and thir- ty Men, by the Diftemper which they contracted ; but it abating, they thought of going to Sea again, but on examining their Water Casks, they found the Hoops all worm eaten and rotten, fo that there was no Proceeding, but this Defect was re. paired by their Cooper, who was an irgeious Fel- low. ; 382 Of Captain NORTH. © low 5 he went into the Woods with the AMaystta Slaves, and with Withies and other Stuff he ga- thered, fitted them up, and made them tight, in acknowledging of which Service, they chofe him Captain, and North was made Quarter-Mafter. _ At Auguftine they pick’d up fome Straglers, | among whom was David Williams, and on a Mu- fter, they found they had a hundred and_five Men. They then made their Vefle! a free Ship, that is, they agreed every Man fhould have an ~ equal Share in ail Prizes; and proceeded for the Mouth of the Red Seas. sie » In the Night, after they had reach’d their Sta- tion, they made two Ships, one was the Adocha Frigate, of 40 Guns, commanded by Culliford : the had been an Eaft India Man, and under the Com- mand of one Captain Stour; the other Ship was called the Soldada, a Ship of 16 Guns, the Cap- tain’s Name Shivers, they haled one another, and on both Sides gave the fame Anfwers, from the Seas, and upon Agreement, they all lay by that Night: In the Morning ‘they conforted, and a- greed to make “an equal Divifion of all Prizes, which any of the three fhould take from that . Time for two Months to come. ’ Aree The Pelican {pared Wood, Water, and fome of her Hands to Captain Culliford, and here Williams thifted: on board him. About ten Days after, thefe three had join’d Company a large Afoor’s Ship, on which they afterwards mounted 70° Guns, hove in Sight. They all gave Chafe, but the {mall Ship came firft up with the for, who exchang’d feveral Shot with the Soldada and Pelican, but the Soldada clapp’d her on board, and before the Pelican could enter a Man, the Aoors call’d for Quarters: In boarding the’ Adcor, fhe fired a’Broadfide upon the Soldada, but only two Shot hull’d her, and kill’d ‘two ‘Piftol Shot a-fterh; wheneyer fhe came upon his itn Pe : pes ze Of ‘Captain NORTH. 383. two Men, which’ was the only Lof$ they had in taking a thoufand Prifoners, Paffengers,’ and Sailors. one. Ratio Mek ee Ge Be Nad All the Money was carried on board the Afvcha Frigate, and divided between her Crew and the Soldada, excluding without other Reafon than fc volumus, the Pelican from ary ‘Share. pas | The Crew of the Pelican expoftulated with them; and bid them remember they had fpared both Wood and Water, or ‘the Afocha could not have kept'the Station’; ‘inftead of any Anfwer, they re- _ geiv’d a Command to be gone, or they would fink them; they anfwering, they could not ‘go by themfelves, wanting’ the Water andWood they had {pared. The two Conforts gave them a thoufand Dollars, and fome Water out of the AZoor, bidding . them buy Wood, where they could purchafe it, and fo left the Pelicae to her felf, going away for the Coaft of Malabar, where they put the Prifo- mers and Horfes they had taken afhore, funk the Soldada, and thence went to the Ifle of St. Afary’s on Madagafcar, where the Afoor’s Ship now lies funk. They thared out of this Prize a thoufand, Pounds'a Man in Silver and Gold befides other Goods; and the two Pyrates amounted to the Number of 350 Men. . The Pelican kept the fame Station for fome Days, when a large Afcor Ship hove in Sight, they gave Chafe, and the Afoor, not fulpetting her for an Enemy, did not endeavour to get a- way; when the Pelican came up, fhe fired for the Moor to bring to, which made him fet his fmall Sails, ‘tho’ with the Lofs of feveral Men; for the Pelican being clofe up, brought them down with the {mall Arms. When the Asor had, at length, hove out his fmall Sails, the Pelican could not gain upon him enough to board, tho’ ihe was not a Lee 384. Of Captain NORTH: 3 Lee Quarter, the Afoor being a tall Ship, took a2” way the Wind from the Pelican, and. fhe could ne- ~ ver get to. Windward of him. She ply’d her fore » Chafe afl this while, and drove the Ascors from ~ their ftern “Chafe, but could not, as they endea- . vour’d to do, ftrike the Afors Rudder, or, any other Way difable him. At length, by the Fear » and bad Steerage of the Afcor, the Pelican ran up along Side of them, but as the mifs’d- lafhing,. the was obliged to fhoot:a head; in.the mean | while the A4oor Wore round, the Pelican put. to = Stays after him but not. Staying, and they being all in Confufion, they Wore alfo; but in this ° ' Time the Afoor had. got. the. Start, and. fetting all the Canvas he could pack on his Ship’s Back, - wrong’d the Pelican, and got off. . The Lofs; of this Ship made the Crew almoft diftratted, and made, for fome Time, a:great Di -: vifion among them, fome curfing the. Ship for a ‘ heavy Sailor, and propofing. to return home, o- thers curfing themfelyes, and the ill Management. .’ by which they mifs’d lafhing, .and propos’d go- ing to Mad agafcar, and the breaking, ;her up, fince as fhe was a fingle Bottom, fhe .muft. be » worm -eaten ; but Time, which mollifies the great» eft Rage, abated thefe Contentions,,.and:.put an End to the Animofitiés which. {prung from their « Difappointment. ae Rerctace They being coo], refolved for the AZalabar Coaft, on which’ they took three. Afcor Ships in a little © Time ; the firft they difcharged, after taking out 600 Dollars ; the fecond they took for their own Ufe, mounted her with 26 Guns, and called her the Delphin , the third they fold on the fame Coaft ~ for 18000 Dollars. Their own Ship they fet a- drift. From this Coaft they made for Adadagafcar, and near the-IMand Atafcarenas. loft all their Mafts ina Hurricane. They put up Jury-Mafts, came to ~ Ste I xe Of Captain NORTH. 385 St. Mary’s and néw mafted. Here they found Cap- tain Culliford, Captain Shivers, and their Prize, with ‘three Merchant Men from America, which were come to trade with them; one of which was the Pembrook, commandéd by Samuel Burges, belonging to Frederick Phillips, Merchant at New-York. The - Captain of the Dolphin, and {ome of the Men being - weary of this Life, went home in thefe Merchant Ships, and the Crew chofe one Samuel Inlefs, who lived on the Ifland, for their Captain; they fitted out for the Streights of Alalacca, where they made feveral Prizes of Afoor Ships, but cof little yalue to them. North onboard one of the Prizes, was epi tated from the reft by bad Weather, and drove to great Straights for Water. The Adoor Merchant, Who was on board with him, ahd whom he had treated very huthdnely, fhewed him a Draught, by which he camé to a fmall Ifland not fir from the Dutch Settlenient, and watered. The Atvor told him, that he ran thé Riiqué of his Life thould jt be known that he had given him a Sight of this Draught. In réturn for this Service, whea he met with his Cotnpdnion’, he got the Adzor's Ship dif- charged, They, after this, miadé for Nicobar, hear Achen, and, in thé Way, tiet’a lirge Dané Ship, which they plunder’d, and hove down by, cléan’d, and Teturn’d to Afadagafcar, where they fhar’d their Booty, which was, befides Goods, between 3 and “400 |. a Mani A Month aftér their Arrival three Englifs Men of Wat appear’d in Sight, the Angle- _ Sex, Captain Littleton, the Haftings, Ca tain White, and the Lizerd, Captain Rumfey. Thefe Ships oc Cafioned their hawling up the Dolphin, which, as they could not get her as high as they defiga'd. they fet Fire to. BOE aS Vou. th. < Tot c Comma. 386° = OF Captain NorvTH. Commadore Littleton brought a Pardon for fuch of the Pyrates.as would accept it, and many of them, among whom were Culliford and Shivers did, and went home with Merchant Men. North ac- cepted it alfo, but would not truft to it, finding the Time fixed for their Surrender was elapfed before the Men of War arrived. ; Moft of the Pyrates having left the Ifle of St. Mary's, where the King’s Ships lay, North thought it not fafe for him to ftay, and therefore putting all he had into the Dolpkin’s Boat, he defign’d to join . his Comrades on the Main of Madagafcar, but be- “ing overfet by a Squawl, all the People were loft except himfelf, who fwam four Leagues, anda Ne- gtoe Woman, whom he put on the Bottom of the Boat. / oe Being now on the Main, and quite naked, he frighted the Negroes he met with, as he got out of the Water, for they took him for a Sea-Devil 5 but one Woman, who had been ufed to fell Fowls at the white Mens Houfes, had the Courage not to run away, and, when he came near, knew him 5 ‘fhe gave him half her Petticoat to cover his Naked- nefs, and calling. a Negroe Man who carried het Things, and was run into the Woods; they help d him.to perform his Journey to the Dwelling of fome white Men, which was fixteen Miles from the Place where he come on Shore; a great Journey for a Man fo feeble with fwimming. He was kind- ly received and cloathed by his Comrades, whom fhe ftaid with, till he had recovered his Strength, and then he went to a black Prince of his Acquain- tance, with whom he fiaid till the Arrival of Cap- tain Fourgette, which wasa full Year. aes 'In this Veffel (which I have already faid 17 White's Life was taken) he weut round the North- End to the Weft-Side, and came into Afethelage, where they furprized the Speaker ; the Manner of which f Of Captain Nor TH. 387 which Surprize is alfo mentioned in the fame Life 5 and, after the Death of Captain Booth, was chofen Captain’s Quarter-Mafter, by Bowen, who fucceeded in the Voyage, and the Confequences of it are alrea- wy, fet down, for he was in the Speaker till the was oft, eee The next Voyage he made was in the Speedy Re« turn (taken from Captain Drummond,) in the Capa- city of Company’s Quarter-Mafter, with Defign to cruife in the Red Seas; but touching at the Ifland of Mayotta, they conforted with Captain Howard, whom they met with at the Ifland, as is already faid. From thence they went and victualled at Auguftine, having promifed Captain Bowex to meet him in two Months ; accordingly re+ turning thither, and miffing him, they went to Mayotta to enquire after him; bat hearing there that he was gone a Voyage, and as the Place of Rendezvous was off the Highlands of St. John’s, they fteered their Courfe thither, to join him, and lie for the Afcor’s Fleet from ALscoa. In their Paffage they met with a violent Storm, in which they were near foundering, it beat in their Stern, and obliged them to throw over all their Guns (two excepted, which lay in the Hold) and forced them into the Gulf of Perfia, where. they took feveral {mall Veflels, which they ripp’d up to mend their Ship. Being very much in want of Water, having fta- ved all their Casks, to fave themfelves in the Storm, and meeting with little in the Veffels ta- ken, they hoifted out the Canoe to chafe a Fifh- ing Veflel, that they might be inform’d where they fhould find Water. This Boat made from, thém with all'their Force, but the Ship firing, the People all leap’d into the Water, iome of whom were drowned, and the reft got afhoar, exe cept one Min, whom they came up with; but as Cce2 fooa 388 Of Captain NORTH? foon as they thought to lay hold on him, ‘he di- ved, and kept them in play near an Hour and fi half: They would not fhoot him, becaufe it di not anfwer their Ends ; but, at length, Worth, who was in the Boat, took the Sprit, and ftruck at him as he rofe, hoping to difable him, but he broke his Jaw.. They. took him by this Means, brought him on board, fent him to the Surgeon, and when they: defpair’d of his being able to fpeak, he asked for a-Pipe of Tobacco, which he fmoak’d, and_ drunk.a Dram ; after which he feem’d very hearty. As the Pyrates had on board feveral black Slaves, who {poke the Eaf-India Tongue, one of them vor ordered to enquire of him where they might fins Water, promifing him his Liberty if he would di- reé& them. On this Promife he carried. them to * convenient landing Place, where he ihewed eRe full of Dirt, out of which, after a great deal o Trouble to come at it, they drew but three Buck- ets of Water, which fufficed thofe only who we on Shoar, to the Number of 30. Enraged with’ this Difappointment after fo much. Labour, they — threaten’d their Prifoner with Death, who told them, if they would have Patience till the Sun ae fet, they would have Plenty, for the Spring woul rife, and flow all Night; which they found to be- Faét, and filled twenty Tun of Water, and return’d on board, carrying the Man with them, for yt they made a gathering of fome Goods, and about thirty Dollars; thefe they gave him, and exatted a Promife, that whenever he faw any Ship on oe Coaft, which made the fame Signals they hae made, he would go on board and render ther what Service he could, affuriug him ‘he wou i always meet with civil Treatment, and be we rewarded, After» Of Captain NortvH. ~ 389 .. After this they cruifed on theGulf of Perfiz fome Days, in hopes of meeting their Confort, not doubt- ing but dhe had fome Share in the Storm. The Time of their Confortthip being now over, and fhe not appearing, they fleered for the High-. lands of St. Yohn near Surat, the Place of Rendez-. vous. When they made the Land they fpied a tall. Ship, and immediately making all clear for an En- - Sagement, they gave chafe. The other Ship doing the like, they foon met, and, to the great Joy of - both Parties, the proved their Confort. Upon En- quiry they found the Profper'ous had. been ten Days on this Station, and had not met with the Storm. which had fo roughly handled the Speedy Return, on giving an Account of their Misfortune, viz. their being obliged. to throw over their Guns; and a: Quantity -of Provifions, Captain Howard {pared them fome fiefh Provifions,’ and exprefling great - Goncern for the Accident, renewed his Con- fortfhip for two Months longer; that is, they a- greed whatever Prizes were taken fhould be equal- ly divided-between the Crews of both Ships. Af* ter they had cruifed here fourteen Days, they {pied feven Sail of tall Ships, which proved to be the Moors from Mecoa , they both gave Chace, but the Speedy Return being the batter Sailor firft came up with one of them, laid her on board, and carried her ia avery littleTime, with little more Damage than > the Lofs of her. Bowfprit. The Profperous kept on the Chace, and having Captain Whaley on board as a Pilot, took another at an Anchor, as is faid ({o need not be repeated) in Captain Howard’s Lite, The Speedy Return fteered with her Prize for the Coaft of Malabar, where, by Agreement, the was to wait ten Days for het Confort, In fix-Days the Profperous joined them, but without any Prize,’ having rifled her, as is before {aid in another hfe. <— SSE Seprars Gor3 Here 1 390 Of Captain NORTH. Here they made an equal Dividend of their Prie zes, burnt the Speedy Return, funk the Profperousy went allon board the A4oor’s Ship, put to Sea, and cruifed on this Coaft, where they made feveral Prizes. When they came over againft Cachine, fome_ black Merchants, Goldfmiths, and feveral Dutch Men, came on board to trade with them, bring- ing a great many Sequins, and other Gold Coin, to change for Spamifh Dollars; as many of the Py- rates defigned to knock off and return home, they gave soo Dollars for 200 Sequins, for the Conve- niency of clofe Stowage about them, The Gold- fmiths fet up their Forges on board the Ship, and were fully employed in making them Buttons, Buckles, and what elfe they fancied, fo that they had a fair Opportunity of putting what Alloy they thought proper. They here alfo furnifhed them- felves with a good Quantity of Arrack, Provifions, and Stores, and then leaving the Coaft, fhaped their Courfe for Atadagafcar, but, in the Way, fell in with the Ifland of A/auritius, and put into a Port, called the North-Wef? Harbour. Here they wooded and watered. This Port affords great abundance of a poifonous Fith called the Red-Snapper, the Nature of which was well known to Captain Bowen, who. perfwaded his Men net to eat of them, but they were in Port, and then are all Commanders, fo that this wholefome Advice was thrown away upon them. The Captain feeing their Obftinacy, and . that they could not be diffwaded, eat with them, chufing rather to fhare the fame Fate than be left alone to the Mercy of the Dutch, as he was con- {cious of what he merited. They fupp’d plentifully on the Fihh, and drank very heartily after it. Soon after they began to {well in a frightful Manner. The next Morning fome Planters came on board with Fowls, Goats, (76. and feeing the Pyrates in a miferable Condition, an Ean thi a a tt Of Captain NorTH. 391 and fome of thele Fith lying on the Decks, asked if they had not eat of them? Being anfwer'd they had, advifed their drinking plentifully of ftrong : Liquors, which was the only way to expel the Poy- © fon, which had difpatch’d them all in lefS Time, - had they not done it after their unfortunate Meal, They readily followed this Advice, as the Pre- {cription was agreeable, and by this Means, with the Care of the Surgeons, of whom they had fe- veral expert in their Bufinefs, and ftock’d with good Medicines, they all recovered, four excepted, who paid their Obftinacy with their Lives, They here heel’d their Ship, ferubb’d, tallow’d, and took in what they wanted. When, they had ftaid three Months in this Port, the Governor fent and defired them to put to Sea, for he expetted the Arrival of the Dutch Ea/t-India Men’, they ac- cordingly got every Thing ready, and went out, but left feveral of their Men: behind them, as we have faid'in Bowen’s Life. __ From hence they fteered for ALedagafcar, and in their Paffage ftopped at Dow AMafcarenas, where they took ina Quantity of Hogs, Goat, Sheep, Fowls of all Sorts, and Green Turtle. Captain Bowe here went afhcar with 40.0f his Men, having ob.’ tained the Governor’s Protection by the Force of Prefents. Thefe Men defign’d to give over their Pyracy, and return home the firft Opportunities offer’d them. In fix Months after they had ftaid - here, Captain Bowen was taken ill of thedry Belly Ach, a Diftemper as rife here as in the Weft-India. Iflands, and was buried in the Highway, for the: Priefts would not allow him holy Ground, as he was a Heretick. But to return; when Bowen went afhoar North was chofen Captain. lation is, the Crew having made choice of him to. Command, either by an unanimous Confent, or by: Cogs a The Ceremony of this Inftal-. 392 Of Captain NORTH, » 2 Blajority of Suffrages, they carry him a Sword tha very fulemn Manner, make him fome Comple- ments, and defire he will take upon him the Com- mad, as he is the moft capable among them. That he will take Poffeffion of the great Cabin; and, on his accepting the Office, he is led. into the Cabin in State, and placed at a Table, where only one Chair is fet at the upper End, and one at the lower End of the Table for the Company’s Quarter- Mafter. The Captain and he being placed, the lat- ter fuccin@ily tells him, that the Company having . Experierce of his Condu& and Courage, do him the Honour to ele& him for their Head, nor doubting his behaving himfelf with his ufual Bravery, and doing every Thing which may conduce to the pub- lick Good; in Confidence of which, he, in the Name of the Company, promifed to otey all his Jaw ful Commands, and declared him Captain. Then the Quarter-Mafter takes up the Sword, which he had before prefented him, and he had returned, puts it into his Hand, and fays, This is the Commif- fion under which you are to atk, may You prove fortunate ro your felf and us. The Guus are then fired. round, Shot and all; he is faluted with three Chears, the Ceremony is ended with an Invitation from the Captain to fuch as he thinks fit to have dine with him, and’a large Bow] of Punch is ordered to every Mefs, ~~ . ‘Badagafcar, and came to Cape Dolphin at the South but it blowing hard, he was obliged to put to Sea, and Jeave his Boat with 30 Men behind him, He ran along the Baft-Side of the liland, and came to a Place called Ambonavoula, in the Latitude of 17 3. where they put on Shore fome of their Goods, and fettled themfelves among the Negrces, ae es vs Tas Captain North lowaine ‘this Ifand fteered for. End, as is faid in White’s Life, where he came to- an Anchor, gnd took on board fome Retrefhments, | Lh emeehnie sah sete Oe EEA nein Rahim te a Se Of Captain NorrH,. 393 ral living in a Honfe 5 here they li Bie , Phe among the esprit ak ~ ean € Moor Prifoners they kept on-board. - allowed them fufficient fredh Preven Jae privately bid the Boatfwain of the Adsrs-take the Advantage of the Land Breeze in the Night Time: and go off with the Ship, and what Goods were left on board; or the Pyrates would: foon hawl up the Ship, take every. Thing on Shore, and they (marooned there) would never {ee their own es ina te seas a iri sr ease) _ Accordingly the Boatfwain following. this Ad: vice, laid hold of the Opportunity of a oer Niche and communicating his Defign to the other Afjors. whom he did not. aequaint with this. Advice as North a os sae not, ae he was on the- Point of executing, nis Delign, they weigh’d with great Sj. lence hd ftood to Ser ek Saks i eo = _ The next Morning fome' of the Pyrates “pros pos’d to go on Baard and fetch. off fome Iron and. other Things to trade with in the Country ; but they were ftrangely farpriz’d. when they. mifsd ] ad Rest ; 2 Barat y 5 mils d the Ship ; they alarm’d the reit of their. Comrades, and went in a Body to Gaptain North to tell hi what had hap cede. He re if the wy were gone off with the Ship,. it was their own’ Fault ; they ought to have left a-fufficient Num- ber of Hands on Board to have fecur'd hers that there was now no Remedy but Patience, for they had no Veffel to purfue with, except they thought the Canoe proper. Sg Some of the Pyrates thought as fhe lay in foul Ground the Cable might . cut. by eee Rick and the Ship blown off to Sea by that Accident. on ftarting this, fome of them ran up to am eee nence, and from thence fpy’d the Ship as far as’ they could well fee, with all Sails fet, which wasa - Cruel Te Of Captain NortH. 395 394 ° Of Captain ° 4 they would take the Advantage of any Divifion cruel and convincing Proof that their Lofs was ir- which they might obférve among the Whites, and bl \ = i cut them off whenever a fair Opportunity of- pts eps nived to make themfelves ealy, ma , : there Sas Bo HIP ar apt ap ieee ; North often fet this before them, and as often Cot to different Abodes, at {mall Diftances, ‘ made them remark the Effects of their Unanimi- ty, which were, the being treated with great Re- {pec and Deference, and having a Homage paid them as to fovereign Princes, Nature, we fee, teaches the moft Illiterate the neceffary Prudence The Natives among whom they fix’d, had fre- for their Prefervation, and Fear works Changes quent Broils and Wars among themfelves, but the ‘which Religion has loft the Power of doing, fince : deavoured to reconcile f it has been looked upon as a Trade, and debafed Se en alate their Difputes not ip an all di ces 3 i Slaves d themfelves, buying Cattle and o oe vated a neighbourly Manner one among ay other five Years; clear’d a great deal of Ground, and planted Provifions as Yamms, Potatoes, Cc. St apse mtn HY ‘i 3} j by the f{candalous Lives of thofe who think it their ; at Impartiality and ftri& Regard to . : Bufinefs to teach it only, and, fatisfied with tha: feldom, A taitics iat he ie allowed, by all, a Theory, leave the prattical Part to the Laity: For ae irable good natural Parts) that he ever thefe Men whom we term, and not without Rea- ro Man ot adm the Party who was caft,fatisfied with : fon, the Scandal of humane Nature, who were Sa lea: d content with the Equity of his : abandoned to all Vice, and lived by Rapine; when. the Reafon, ani they judged it for their Intereft, not only (poli- Dele linations which the Pyrates fhewed tickly) were ftri&ly juft, both among themfelves, Thefe Inc - the Example they fet of an ami- _ and in compofing the Differences of the neighbour- oor of Life; for they caretully avoided all ing Natives, but grew. continent and fober, as no- a ba to refer all Caufe of Complaint doubt they efteemed their Security to depend on Teche themielvas which might arife, to a cool fhewing the Blacks th ey could govern thofe Paf. Hearing before North, and twelve of their Compa- fions to which they them e : felves were Slaves. Its nions, gave them a great Gera et nee aes: true, they were all Polygamifts, but that was no #2 before very much pre Natives, who were : ¢ Scandal among a People who thought the coha- : : jn this Point o biting with a pregnant Woman a Sin a aint Nas againft the es ; ae, themfelves, they ture zs Une contra ip her Defign’ which is See exett that whofever fpoke but in ” ede by Generation to propagate the animal Race; and wer ? ‘ Om" ith Tone, buked by all the ‘or peevith Tone, was re who fhould be guilty of this Crime among them y, efpecially if before any of the Country, tho’ ' they efteemed worfe than Beafts, which following pany, : ng a: - for they thought, Nat her Orders exa&ly, and fet M even but a a Fer oot Canaord wats the = Tene pe When Bee ay they vere see hein os a atrank thetr Safety s for. ie Pes eee meee piey. never ava ed as Rights n te i a ' Be a ean tej Gk noe ibe be | Bef Er Compan, or of he Nav on the flighteft Oc ? a they oo The 396 Of Captain NoRTH. The Reader may, perhaps, be well enough plea- fed to hear how on the fmalleft Difference they proceeded to a Reconciliation ; for, asI have faid, it was a Maxim with them, that the leaft ‘Dif- cord among a few Particulars would be the’Ruin. of a whole Body ; as from a {mall neglected Spark, a general Conflagration may arife and lay the no- bleft City wafte. —- On any Miftake from which a Difpute arofe, or on any ill-manner’d Expreffion let fall in Compa- ny, they all broke up, and one of the Company poured what Liquor was before them on the Ground, faying, no Contention could creep in among them without Lofs ; and therefore he facri- ficed that Liquor to the evil Fiend, to prevent a greater Damage. Then both the contending Par- ties, on Pain of being binifhed the Society, and _ fent to another Part of the TIfland, were fummon’d to appear at Captain North’s, the next Morning, and, inthe mean while, they were commanded to keep their refpetive Houfes. Verbose The next Morning both the Parties being met,” and allthe Whites fummon’d to attend, the Cap-" tain fet the Plaintiff and Defendant on one Side, and told them, that till the Aggreffor. had con-° fented. to do Jaftice, and till the Perfon injured had forgot his Refentmeat, they muft efteem them: - both Bnemiies to the Publick, and not look upon’ them as their: Friends and Companions. He then wrote down the Names of all the Affembly, roll’d them up, and put'them intoa Hat, out of which,” each Party fhaking the Hat, chofe fix Tickets; and thefe twelve Rowls or Tickets contained the Names of the affiftant Judges, who, with the Cap- tain, heard and determmed in the Caufe, calling and examining the Witneffes, When the Matter was fully debated, the Court was adjourned to the next Day, and the Litigatars commanded to ap- ‘ pear ? Of Captain NortH. 397 pear again, and, in the Interim, not to ftir out the;; Houfes, to which they were refpettively nen ed by two or three each, left the Slaves, or the neighbouring Blacks, fhould, by a greater Number, have any Sufpicion of their Difagreement. i The fecond Day the Examination began afreth: and the Witnefies were fifted, as if they had -hot before been examined, and this to try if the were confiftent with their former Evidence, wien was noted down, Then the Court was again ad. Journed, and the difagreeing Parties remanded home till next Morning, when Judgment was ens ee was a Hine in Proportion to the Af The Reafon of covfining thofe who had Diffens fion was to deter them, by this {mal} Puiltiheent fon gt future Quarrels, and to prevent any il pe oS which might fetes % their being at full The Example they fet, and the Care th to accommodate Differences among their Meihe _ bours, had calmed all the Country round them. After they had ftaid here near three Years Cap- tain Worth, and fome of his Companions, “had a Mind to vifit the Country Southward, and trade for more Slaves and Cattle ; to which End taking a confiderable Quantity of Powder and Arms, be-. fide what they might ufe, with so Whites’ and 300 Natives, he fet forward on his Journey. When they had travelled about fourfcore Miles South- ward, they came to a Nation rich in Slaves and: Cattle, who inhabited the Banks of the largeft Ri-. ver on the Eaft-Side the Ifland, called Mangeva,: With thefe People he trafficked for a great Nom- ber of Slaves and Cattle, which he purchafed for Guns and Powder : They being at War when Cap-: tain North came among them, witha veighbouring Prince, he was intreated to give his. Afliftarce, $ for . 398 Of Captain NORTH. for which they, the Mangorians, promifed him a hundred Slaves with 500 Head of Cattle, and all the Prifoners they fhould take. On thefe Con- ditions he joined them, and marched to a very large Town of the Enemy’s, which was naturally very ftrong, and efteemed by the Natives impreg- nable, being fituated on a high and craggy Rock, which could be afcended by the Way only lead- ing to the Gate, where was kept a ftrong Guard. The Blacks in North’s Army were for leaving this Town unattempted, and marching farther into the Country, in fearch of Booty ; but North told ’em it was not fafe to leave a Garrifon of Enemies at their Backs, which would continually infeft them, by falling on their Rear, and which would be an Ob- ftacle to their carrying off what Plunder they might get together 5 befide, it would be anAzyle for all the Country, which would fly thither till they had ga- ther’da Body confiderable enough to come down, and face them in the Field, which the Enemy might do with reafonable Hopes of Succefs, as their Men would be all frefh, while thofe of his _ Party would be fatigued with Marches, may be encumbered by Plunder, and worn down with the Inconveniencies of lying expofed in the Fields. The chief of his Allies allowed his Reafons good, were an Attempt on the Town pratticable, which _ Experience told him was not; for, tho’ feveral - times befieged, it never could be taken, it would be the Lofs.of a great deal of Time, and many Mens Lives to offer at it. North defired he would Jeave the Management ; of this Siege to him. The Chief anfwered, he fhould do as he plea- fed, but it was againft his Judgment to attack a Town which Nature her felf had fortified; which God Almighty would never fuffer to be taken, and which had, to no Purpofe, coft the Lives of @ Number, nen mete nces Se nine ND: Of Captain NorvTH. 399 Number fcarce to be told, of his Countrymen, in ae feveral Attempts they had made to be Mafters of it. : North difpofed his. Army, and invefted the Rock on every Side, then fent Word to the Town, if they did not furrender he would give no Quarter to either Sex or Age. The Inhabitants laugh’d at his Meffage, told him, they did not believe he had learnt the Art of flying, and till he had, they thought themfelves very fecure from his putting fuch Menaces in Execution. Out of the White Men, North chofe 30, whom he fet at the Head. of 3 Companies, confifting of 100 Blacks each; and as he had fome Grenade- Shells with ’em, foon difperfed the Guard at the Foot of the Rock, and made a Lodgment ; tho? the Blacks were acquainted with Fire-Arms, the Shells were entirely new to them, and as they faw their terrible Effet, threw down their Arms, and gained the Middle of the Rock, where they had another Corps de Guarde, tho’ not without fome Lofs. Thofe who were at the Bottom of the Rock be ing put to flight, North fent 10 Whites and 500 Blacks to take that Poft, and Orders to the other Whites to mount the Rock, and having beat that _ Guard, if poffible, to enter the Town with them, They accordingly afcended in this Order, as the Road was fo narrow, only three could pats on a-breaft, and the Enemy, when within Caft of a Dart, threw down a Shower upoa them, three unarmed Blacks with their Shields march’d before three {mall Shot Men, and thelter’d them from the Enemies Weapons; thefe were follow- ed by others, with the fame Precaution, the White Men being mix’d with thofe who thus went up, that is to fay, one White Musketeer to two Blacks. 4oo.=—s« Of Captain NorTH. > The Enemy feem’d refolute to defend the Pafs, but when they had, to no Purpofe, {pent a Num- ber o: Darts, and had loft fome Men by the Shor, they fwiftly took to the Top of the Rock, where, joined with frefh Men from the Town, they madé~ a Stand and Shew of Refiftance ; North’s Men fol- Jowed, and pouring in a Volley, put them into . Confufion; which gave the Affailants an Opportu- ty to come near enough to throw in their Shelis, half a dozen of which burfting with confiderable Damage, and the Slaughter of feveral Men, they thought to fhelter themfelves in the Town, but the Inhabitants fearing the Enemy’s entering with them, fhut the Gates againft both, fo that the Blacks of North’s Army, notwithftanding all the Whites could do to the contrary, thade a great Slaughter ; however, they faved {ome, whom they © fent Prifoners to the Camp, defiring, at the fame Time, a Supply of Powder to make a Petarde. . In the mean while the Enemy from the Town threw a prodigious Quantity of Darts, which the Befiegers received upon their Shields, at leaft, the greater Part. ' The Town was again fummon’d, but they re fus’d to furrender, wherefore, they were obliged to fhelter themfelves as well as they could; and expect the Powder from the Camp; tho’ in the mean while, the fmall Shot from without being warmly plied, made the throwing Darts from the — Town lets requent, for none could fhew his Head but with the greate% Danger. When the Powder came, they cut down and hollowed a Tree, which they filled with Powder, and pluge’d up very tight, and under the Pro- tection of their Shields and Muskets got it to the Gate, under which they dug a Hole large enough © to receive it, then fetting Fire to the Fuze, it burft with a terrible Crack, tore their Gate to cr Shatters, { Of Captain NoRTH. 401 Shatters, and left an open Paffage, which the Be- fiegers, who had been join’d with 500 more Blacks, who came up with the Powder, enter’d, and began a very great Slaughter; the Whites protetted al} they could who fubmitted, but avtwithftanding their Diligence, the Town was ftrew’d with dead and dying Men. At length what with being tir’d, and what with Perfuafion, the Slaughter ceas’d, the Town was reduced to Afhes, and the Conquerors return’d to the Camp with 3000 Prifoners, whom his Allies'led to their own Quarters, where call+ ing out, the old Women, Children, and ufelef Slaves, they fent them to North, as if by thefe, they thought themfelves releas’d from the Promife made to induce his Affiftance. When North faw the Dithouefty of thefe People, he fent for their Prince, and told him, ¢ Accor- © ding to Agreement all the Slaves belong’d to him; _ * nay, according’ to Juftice he alone had a Right “ to them, fince he defpair’d of taking the Towa, - * fo far as to diffuade his befieging it; and that - * he not only owed to him their Succes, but “even the Safety of his Army, and all the Plun- © der they fhould make in the Profécution of the . © War, for Reafons already given, aud by himfelf * allow’d to be good. That he thought he had © allied-himfelf with a People of Integrity, but he ‘was forry to fay, he found himéelf quite mif © taken in’ his Opinion, fince they were 0 far - € from making good their Treaty ; that they fent * him out of the Slaves taken, inftead of all, thofe 4 only whom they knew not what to do with; * that they muft not imagine him ¢fo blind as not * to perceive how difingenuoufly he was dealt with; - * or that he wanted either Strength or Refolution f to refent the Ufage.’ Vou, II. : : D d al (> He 402 Of Captain NORTH. He then ask’d what was become of a Number of young and handfome Women he had feen a- m ng the Captives? ‘The Prince anfwer’d, ‘ That thofe he enquired © after were his and his Countrymens Relations, “ and as fuch they: could not confent to, nor could’ © he require their being made Slaves. This Anfwer made, the Chief léft him; as it. was delivered in a pretty haughty Tone, it did not a little nettle both North and his Comrades 5 the latter were for immediately doing themfelves Juft'ce, but the former begg’d they would have Patience and rely on him; they followed his Ad- vice, and he fent an Interpreter, who privately en- - quired among the Women what Relation they had’ to the People of the River; the Prifoners anfwer-. | ed, that fome of their Forefathers had inter-mar- ried with that Nation. I muft here take Notice, that notwithftanding the Inhabitants of AZadagafear have but one Lan- guage which is common to the whole Ifland, the. Difference of the Diale&t in different Nations takes it very difficult for any: but the Natives, or thofe who have been a great many Years (more than North and his Companions had been) ‘among them to underftand them perfectly, which is the Reafon he made ufe of an Interpreter, as well between him and the Chief, as between the Slaves and him. When he had received ‘this Anfwer from the Prifoners, he went to the Prince, and told him, * It was very odd he fhould make War on his Re- © lations, however, he fhould keep them fince he “declared them fuch, till he could prove his * Right better than the Prince could his Near- * neis of Blood; that as he had once taken them, © he would try if he could not fupport the Ju- £ ftice of his Claim, and bid him therefore be Ee or , Super aA an Of Captain NORTH. 403 © upon his Guard, for he openly declared, he was. © no longer the Ally, but ine profeis’d Enemy of © faithlels People, Saying this, hé and his Blacks feparated them- felves from the Mangorians, and North divided them iato Companies, with his white Men at the Head of each, and. order’d them to fire Ball over the Heads of their late Allies; the firft Volley wasa_ prodigious Aftonifhment to the Mangorians, Levex ral of whom ran away, but North firing two more. immediately, and marching up. to them, brought the Prince avd the Head Officers, of bis Army. to him, crawlisg oa all, four; they, (as the Cu- ftom of fhewing the greateft Submiffion is, among: them) kif’d the Feet of the Whites, and begg’d: they would continue ther Friendfhip, and dif pole of every Thing as they thought proper, ; _ North told him, ¢ Deceit was. the Sign of a © mean and coward Soul; that had he, the Prince, thought, too confiderable, what, however, was “july his Due, becaufe not only promifed to, “but taken by him, he ought to have expoftu- “lated with him, Worth, and have told him his © Sentiments,which might have, it was pofliblesmade no Divifion, for neither he nor his Men were. greedy or unreafonable; but as the Prince had not the Courage publickly to claim the Slaves, “he would have bafély flolen.them by falfe Pre- tences of Kindred, it was a Sign he did not think ©fach Claim juftifiable, as certainly it was not, © fr all his Captains could witnefS their Prince € had agreed the Prifoners taken fhould be given © ‘to the Whites, and his Companions, a fufficient © Title, to mention no other: That he had refol- © Jed to fhew them, by a fevere Chaftifement, © the Abhorrence thofe of his Colour, have to In- © gratitude and Deceit, and what Difference there € was in fighting on the Ground of Juftice, -and oe Dd2 (‘the Ca) 404 Of Captain NORTH. * the fupporting Wrong and Injury ; °but’as they . € acknowledg’d their Error, he fhould not only ‘forgive but forget what was paft, provided no * new Treachery, ‘in. his Return, which he re- * folved upon, refreth’d his Memory. He then order’d them to bring all the Slaves, and they punttually complied without Reply. North chofe out the fineft and ableft among them, and dividing the whole Number of Prifo- riers into two equal Bands, he kept that in which. he had placed the chofen Slaves, and fent the other to the Prince, telling him, ‘ tho’ neither ‘Fraud nor Compulfion could wring a Slave * from him, yet Juftice, as fome of his Troops | © had fhared the Danger, and a generous Temper, © had fent him that Prefent, which was half the © Spoil ; tho’ he could not think of going any far- © ther on with the War, that he ought to con- “tent himfelf with the taking a Town they © thought impregnable, and blame his own Con- © duét, if he thould continue in the Field, and © hereafter find the Want of his Affiftance. The Prince and his People admired the Pene- tration, Bravery, and Generofity of the Whites, -and fent them Word, * He was more obliged to © them for the Leffon they had taught him by * their Practice, than for the Slaves they. had pre- © fented him, tho’ he efteem’d the Prefent as he. — ought... That for the future he fhould have an | * Abhorrence from every mean Action, fince he © had learned from them the Beauty of a candid open Procedure. At the fame Time he thank’d © him for the Prefent, and the not fuffering his © Refentment to go farther than the frightning € him into his Duty ;-for he was {enfible his Balls © were not fir’d over their Heads, but by Orders “proceeding from the Humanity of the Whites, ‘who; he obferved, tender over the Lives ot © theis : Of Captain NoRTH: 405 . of their Enemies, contrary to the Cuftom of his 2 Countrymen, who give Quarter to none, the ; Females and Infants excepted, that there may : hereafter be none to take Revenge; he begg’d,’ st that he would fuffer their Submiffion to get the better of his Defign to depart. This could not Prevail, the Whites and their Friends, who came with them, turn’d their Faces towards home, ta- king their Slaves and Cattle with them ; tho’ the Mangorians were fenfibly touch’d at the Obftinacy oneness Refolution, yet they parted very ami-. cably. : As the Whites were returning home with their Company, they fell in with another Nation, the Timoufes, whofe Prince join’d North, with soo _ Men, and dwore a ftri& Amity with him and his Crew. ; = The Ceremony ufed among the Natives, as it is uncommon, fo an Account of it may, perhaps, be agreeable to my Readers. The Parties, who {wear to each other, interweave their Toes and Fingers, fo that they muft neceffarily fit very clofe to each other. When they have thus knit their Hands and Feet, they reciprocally {wear to do each o- ther all friendly Offices, to be a Friend or Ene- my to the Friend or Enemy of the Party to whom they fwear; and if they falfify the Oath they make, they imprecate feveral Curfes on themfelves, as may they fall by the Lance, be devoured by the Alligator, or ftruck dead by the Hand of God; then an Affiftant fcarifies each of the contrafting Parties on the Cheft, and wiping up the Blood with a Piece of Bread, gives this bloody Bread to each of them to eat, that is, each eats the Blood of the other ; and this Oath whe- ‘ther it be with equal Parties, or with a Prince and his Subject, where the one promifes Protec- tion, and the other Obedience (which Was the pet Dd 3 / Nature 406 : Of Captain NORTH, Nature of that taken between North and this Prince} is look’d upon inviolable, and they have few Examples of its being broken ; but where any has been. wicked enough to. violate this folemn Oath, they fay, they have been ever punifh’d according to. their Imprecations. As this Prince had War with powerful Neigh- bours, he left his Country, taking with him all his great Men, Wives, and Relations, and with a Company of about soo fighting Men, followed North, and’ fettled by him, where he ftaid two Years, the Time North flaid; during this Space, being fupplied with Arms, Powder, and feveral Natives. by Captain MNorth, he made feveral In- roads into his Enemies. Countries, and made all he conquer’d, fwear Allegiance to Capt. North. At the. Expiration of two Years, Captain Hal- fey came in with a Brigantine, as is faid in the Life of Captain White. This Crew having made a broken Voyage were difcontented with their Captain, and defired North to take the Command upon him; but. he declined it, faying, Halfey was every Way as capable, and “that they ought not to depofe a Man, whom they could not tax with either Want. of Courage or. Condu& ; and for his Part, he would never take the Command from any who did not juftly me- rit to. be turn’d out, which was not Hal/ey’s Cafe. The Crew were not, however, fatisfied, and they made the fame Offer to White, but by North’s Induftry, they were, at laft, prevail’d on to con- / tinue their old Commander ;, and as Worth and his Companions had .expended their Money in the fettling their Plantations, and wanted Cloaths, the former, therefore, accepted of the Quarter-Mafter’s Poft under Halfey, and the others went in the Ca- pacity of private Gentlemen Adventurers, I mean plain foremaft Men, as may be gathered in the Life ¢ Of Captain NORTH. 407 Life of that Pyrate, to which I refer for an Ac- count of the Expedition they made in the Red Seas, beginning at Page 113. Captain Hal/ey on board a Prize left North to command the Brigan- tine they fet out in. ; The two Commanders were feparated by a Storm, but both made for Afadagafcar , Halfey got to Ambonavoula, but North fell in with Afaratan, where, finding the Brigantine was very much worm eaten, and made a great Deal of Water, with one Confent they took. afhore all their Goods, and laid up their Vetiel. They were all very well received; the King being then at War with his Brother, North pre- vail’d on his Majefty’s Sifter to pafs her folicary Hours with him; at the King’s Return, having defeated his Brother, he was very much incens’d againft North, for being fo free with the Royal Family, and refolved to fine him 200 Sequins for the Aftront done to his illuftrious Houfe; but Worth having fome Inkling of his Defign, pacified him, ‘by making a Prefent of one hundred. The Pyrates continued here a whole Year, when being defirous to go to Ambonavoula, they ask’d the King’s Affiftance to build a Boat, and he for 7000 Dollars, fet Negroes to work, under the Di- rections of Captain Worth, and a Veffel of 15 Tons” was fet up and launch’d with great Difpatch. In this Boat they went to a River, called Afz- nangaro, thirty Leagues to the Northward of Aa- rvatan: Here fome of their Comrades came to them in a Boat. belonging to the Scotch Ship Neptune, and help’d to tranfport their Goods to Ambonavoula, where he had before fettled, and had a Woman ’ and three Children. — He had not been long return’d before his neigh- bouring Natives reported, that the Timeufes, who had follawed him from the Southward, had a De- Dd4 fign | | | 408 Of Captain NoRTH. fin to rebel agai ft, and murder him and thé other Whites, which giving too eafy Credit to, he made War upon, and drove thefe poor People out of the Country. a » Some Time after he built a Sloop, and went to ‘Antonguil, where he purchas’d. 90 Slaves, and took in the Scots Supercargo, Mr. George Crook(hank, with 2 Defign to carry him to Mafcarenas, buc all his Comrades were againft it, faying, when he got ‘to Europe he would prove their Deftruétion. North anfwered, nothing could be more cruel, after they had taken the greater Part of what the poor Gentleman had, than to keep him from his Coun- try, Family, ard Friends; for his Part were he his Prifoner, he dhould not ask their Confents in doing an A& of Humanity, and the only one they were able towards making him fome Reparation, fince they could not return his Goods, which were parcel’d out into fo many Shares. On North’s faying thus much, they put the ‘Affair in Queftion to.the Vote, and there being many who had Obligations to North, and whom he influenced in Favour of the Supercargo, 48 out of 4 voted for the difcharging him. North ha- ving gained this Point, the Pyrates ask’d if heal- fo defigned to take with him one F. Boa great Favourite of his, who had been Midfhip Man on board the Neptune (a young Scotch Man, who was a good Artift, a thorough Seaman, and very ca- pable of taking on him the Command in any Voyage) he anfwered there was a Neceflity of ° taking him, fince he fhould want his Affiftance in the Voyage; as he depended on his Knowledge, iis Companions faid 9. B. would certainly give him the Slip, which would be a Lois to them all, as he was’an Artift, and a clean hail young Fel- Yow, and therefore his being detained was necel fary tortheir cgmmon Good. To this North an- ia fwered, Of Captain NORTH. ~~ G09 fwered, his own Security would oblige his taking Care that he fhould not get from him, fince no other on-board was capable to find the Way back to Ambonavoula : ata Yes He went to Mafcarenas, where the Supercargo and his. Negroe were put on Shore with all, the Money he had, which was about 1600 Dollars 5 for when the Pyrates made Prize of the Weptune in the Manner already {faid, they took none of the Money, they themfelves had before paid for Li- quors, @c. either from the Captain, Supercargo, or any other on board; for that, they look’d upon it a bafe, as well as difhoneft A&tion, but for the Ship and remaining Part of the Cargo, they had a fair Title to, viz. they wanted both. ».It is true, they made the Merchants of the Greyhound refund - what Money they had taken; but before the Rea- der taxes them with Injuftice, and acting againft the above Maxim, let him confider Circumftances and call to Mind the whole Story. oe They did not take that,Ship, on the contrary, they fent her. away well vittualled, and provided with Neceflaries for her Voyage; and, I hope, it will be allow’d, they had a lawful. Claim to her, as fhe belong’d to an Enemy, and came into a Port of theirs, without a Pafs : Again, they did not rob thefe Merchants of the Money they had before laid out with them, but took it in Baye e ment for the Liquors they had put on board t Greyhound, out of the Neptune, which the Mer- chants themfelves, if they had any Honefty, could not expect for nothing: But let us fuppofe they had taken this Money by Force, and not. traded for it on the fair Foot, as its evident they did; yet, was it no more than an A& of Juftice, fuch. as might reafonably be expected from the Probity of thefe Gentlemen, who neyer fuffer an ill Aétion a oes : to AIO Of Captain NORTH. to go unpunifhed: And no Body can juftify the Proceedings of thofe Merchants who advifed the feizing the Scots Ship. But to return. North would not fuffer F. B. to go afhore; how- ever, to make him amends for his Confinement, he gave him four Negroes, whom he fold for 300 Dollars, and took Care that he fhould live plenti- fully and well on board. North’s Bufinefs, at this -Yfland, was to get Leave to carry his Children there to be educated in the Chriftian Faith, which after fome rich Prefents made the Governor, he obtained, and return’d to Madagascar. In the Voyage, as j. B. was very greatly in his Favour, and his Confident, he told him, his Defign was to leave his Children at A/afcarenas, and place For- tunes for them in the Hands of fome honeft Prieft, who would give them a Chriftian Education (for he thought it better to have them Papifts, than not Chriftians) and would then go back to Ma- yatan, aid endeavour, by his Penitence, to make | Attonement for his former Life, and never more go off the Ifland on any Account ; that he would’ give his Sloop to F. B. with two hundred Dol- jars, that he might find fome Means to return home, fince he very wifely refus’d to join with the Pyrates. When he came on the Aadagafcar Coaft, he heard a French Ship had touch’d there, and left fome Men behind her; upon which Account, North ran to the-Southward 100 Leagues out of his Way, to enquire after and affift thefe People : ‘A Piece of Humanity which ought not to be pafs’d by in Silence, for it may fhame not a few among us who carry a Face of Religion, and a& with greater Barbarity than thofe whom we hunt and deftroy asa Nufance to the World, and a Scandal to the Name of Man. If any thinks’ this Refle- : gion Of Captain NorTH. AIT tion fevere, let him examine into the abe: of Thoufands who are perifhing in Oe ee = Cruelty of Creditors, fenfible of their Inability to pay: Let him take a View of the Miferies which reign in thofe Tombs of the Living, let him enquire into the Number of thofe who are yearly ftarved to Death, to gratify an implacable Spirit, and then, if he can, clear the Englifh Laws which allow a Creditor to punifh an unfortunate Man, for his being fo, with the moft cruel of all invented Deaths, that. of Famine ; let him, 1 fay, clear them from the Imputation of Barbarity. I beg Pardon for this Digreffion which my Concern for the Englifh Charatter for this only Reafon funk among Foreigners forced me into. ; North found but one Man, whom he t with him, cloathed and Anes ad reek me he came back to Ambonavoula, he found the Coun- try all in an Uproar, and the Reft of his Com- panions preparing for a War with the Natives, ' but his Arrival reftor’d their former Quiet. Af. ter four Months Stay at home, he fitted his Sloop to go out and purchafe Slaves at Antoncuil ; but finding few there to his Mind, for inet fee Months he bought but forty, he return’d to his Settlement. He defign’d now to carry his Children to Mafcarenas, but diffuaded on Ac- count of the Seafon, by ¥. B. he went to Mela, lage on the Weft Side of the Ifland, to trade for Samfams. Having. purchas’d a confiderable Quanti , : ty of Samfams he went to Johanna, and thence to ee stta, return’d again to Madagafcar, but not being able to get round the North End, on Ac : count of the Current, he put for AZayotta ‘again ; on the Weft Side of this Ifland put into a Port, called Srey | i / } | iY 8 1 KW us “P SLL S SLOG Ve WY & 8 LY tx y WT TATA Ye TIS LA | y TIPS, MET TYG “ ‘ VO, fo WY Ge | | ARN VA } \7 sf cone tet - AT2 Of Captain NORTH. : Sorez, where, fome Time before, came a Ship from Exgland to trade, commanded by one Price, who going afhore with his Dottor was detained (as was alfo his Boat’s Crew) till he redeem’d himfelf and Surgeon, with 200 Barrels of Pow- der and yooo Small Arms; but was forced to leave his Boat’s Crew, not having wherewithal to ranfom them, tho’ the Demand was only two Small Arms for each Man. Thefe poor Crea- tures were afterwards fold to the Arabians; in Revenge North and his Crew Janded, burnt a large Town, and did all the Damage they could. From Mayotta he went again to Aadagafcar, where a King of his Acquaintance told him, the Whites and Natives were at War at Ambonavoula; he bought thirty Slaves, refrefhed his Crew, and ~yvent home. On the News of his Arrival the Natives fent to conclude a Peace, but he would not liften to them; on the contrary, rais’d an Ar- my, burnt a Number of Towns, and took a great many Prifoners. This Succefs brought the Natives to fue in a very humble Manner for a Ceffation of Arms, that a general Peace might follow: This he agreed to about four Months after his Arrival. — His Enemies, having now the Opportunity, cor- rupted fome of his neighbouring Natives, and in the Night furprized and murder’d him in his Bed. 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