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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The King of Pirates, by Daniel Defoe
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+Title: The King of Pirates
+       Being an Account of the Famous Enterprises of Captain
+       Avery, the Mock King of Madagascar
+
+Author: Daniel Defoe
+
+Release Date: November 12, 2011 [EBook #37992]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE KING OF PIRATES ***
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+THE King of PIRATES:
+
+BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE Famous ENTERPRISES OF
+Captain _AVERY_,
+The Mock KING of _Madagascar_.
+
+WITH
+
+His RAMBLES and PIRACIES; wherein
+all the Sham ACCOUNTS formerly
+publish'd of him, are detected.
+
+
+
+_In Two LETTERS from himself;
+one during his Stay at_ Madagascar, _and
+one since his Escape from thence._
+
+
+
+_LONDON_,
+
+Printed for _A. Bettesworth_ in _Pater-noster Row_, _C. King_
+in _Westminster-Hall_, _J. Brotherton_ and _W. Meadows_ in _Cornhill_,
+_W. Chetwood_ in _Covent-Garden_, and sold by _W. Boreham_ in
+_Pater-noster Row_, 1720.
+
+(Price 1 _s._ 6 _d._)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+THE PREFACE
+
+
+ONE of the particular Advantages of the following Letters from
+Captain _Avery_, is, the Satisfaction they will give the Readers how much
+they have been impos'd upon in the former ridiculous and extravagant
+Accounts which have been put upon the World in what has been publish'd
+already._
+
+_It has been enough to the Writers of this Man's Life, as they call it,
+that they could put any Thing together, to make a kind of monstrous unheard
+of Story, as romantick as the Reports that have been spread about of him;
+and the more those Stories appear'd monstrous and incredible, the more
+suitable they seem'd to be to what the World would have been made to expect
+of Captain _Avery_._
+
+_There is always a great Deference between what Men say of themselves, and
+what others say for them, when they come to write Historically of the
+Transactions of their Lives._
+
+_The Publisher of these Letters recommends this Performance to the Readers,
+to make their Judgment of the Difference between them and the extravagant
+Stories already told, and which is most likely to be genuine; and, as they
+verily believe these Letters to be the best and truest Account of Captain
+_Avery_'s Piracies, that ever has or ever will come to the Knowledge of the
+World, they recommend them as such, and doubt not but they will answer for
+themselves in the Reading._
+
+_The Account given of Captain _Avery_'s taking the Great Mogul's Daughter,
+ravishing and murdering her, and all the Ladies of her Retinue, is so
+differently related here, and so extravagantly related before, that it
+cannot but be a Satisfaction to the most unconcern'd Reader, to find such a
+horrible Piece of Villainy as the other was suppos'd to be, not to have
+been committed in the World._
+
+_On the contrary, we find here, that except plundering that Princess of her
+Jewels and Money to a prodigious Value, a Thing which, falling into the
+Hands of Freebooters, every one that had the Misfortune to fall into such
+Hands would expect: But, that excepting this, the Lady was used with all
+the Decency and Humanity, and, perhaps, with more than ever Women, falling
+among Pirates, had found before; especially considering that, by Report,
+she was a most beautiful and agreeable Person herself, as were also several
+of those about her._
+
+_The Booty taken with her, tho' infinitely great in itself, yet has been so
+magnify'd beyond common Sense, that it makes all the rest that has been
+said of those Things ridiculous and absurd._
+
+_The like Absurdity in the former Relations of this Matter, is that of the
+making an Offer of I know not how many Millions to the late Queen, for
+Captain _Avery_'s Pardon, with a Petition to the Queen, and her Majesty's
+negative Answer; all which are as much true as his being Master of so many
+Millions if Money, which he nor his Gang never had; and of his being
+proclaim'd King of _Madagascar_; marrying the Mogul's Daughter, and the
+like: And, by the Bye, it was but ill laid together of those who publish'd,
+that he first ravish'd her, then murder'd her, and then marry'd her; all
+which are very remarkable for the recommending the Thing to those that read
+it._
+
+_If these Stories are explain'd here, and duly expos'd, and the History of
+Captain _Avery_ set in a fairer Light, the End is answer'd; and of this the
+Readers are to be the only Judges: But this may be said, without any
+Arrogance, that this Story, stripp'd of all the romantick, improbable, and
+impossible Parts of it, looks more like the History of Captain _Avery_,
+than any Thing yet publish'd ever has done; and, if it is not prov'd that
+the Captain wrote these Letters himself, the Publisher says, None but the
+Captain himself will ever be able to mend them._
+
+
+
+
+THE King of PIRATES.
+
+
+YOU may be sure I receiv'd with Resentment enough the Account,
+that a most ridiculous Book, entitled, _My Life and Adventures_, had been
+publish'd in _England_, being fully assur'd nothing of Truth could be
+contain'd in such a Work; and tho' it may be true, that my extravagant
+Story may be the proper Foundation of a Romance, yet as no Man has a Title
+to publish it better than I have to expose and contradict it, I send you
+this by one of my particular Friends, who having an Opportunity of
+returning into _England_, has promis'd to convey it faithfully to you; by
+which, at least, two Things shall be made good to the World; first, that
+they shall be satisfy'd in the scandalous and unjust Manner in which others
+have already treated me, and it shall give, in the mean Time, a larger
+Account of what may at present be fit to be made publick, of my unhappy
+tho' successful Adventures.
+
+I shall not trouble my Friends with any Thing of my Original and first
+Introduction into the World, I leave it to you to add from yourself what
+you think proper to be known on that Subject; only this I enjoin you to
+take Notice of, that the Account printed of me, with all the Particulars of
+my Marriage, my being defrauded, and leaving my Family and native Country
+on that Account, is a meer Fable and a made Story, to embellish, as the
+Writer of it perhaps suppos'd, the rest of his Story, or perhaps to fill up
+the Book, that it might swell to a Magnitude which his barren Invention
+could not supply.
+
+In the present Account, I have taken no Notice of my Birth, Infancy, Youth,
+or any of that Part; which, as it was the most useless Part of my Years to
+myself so 'tis the most useless to any one that shall read this Work to
+know, being altogether barren of any Thing remarkable in it self, or
+instructing to others: It is sufficient to me to let the World know, as
+above, that the former Accounts, made publick, are utterly false, and to
+begin my Account of myself at a Period which may be more useful and
+entertaining.
+
+It may be true, that I may represent some Particulars of my Life, in this
+Tract, with Reserve, or Enlargement, such as may be sufficient to conceal
+any Thing in my present Circumstance that ought to be conceal'd and
+reserv'd, with Respect to my own Safety; and therefore, if on Pretence of
+Justice the busy World should look for me in one Part of the World when I
+am in another, search for my new Kingdom in _Madagascar_, and should not
+find it, or search for my Settlement on one Side of the Island, when it
+lies on another, they must not take this ill; for Self-preservation being
+the supreme Law of Nature, all Things of this Kind must submit to that.
+
+In Order then to come immediately to my Story, I shall, without any
+Circumlocutions, give you Leave to tell the World, that being bred to the
+Sea from a Youth, none of those romantick Introductions publish'd had any
+Share in my Adventures, or were any way the Cause of my taking the Courses
+I have since been embark'd in: But as in several Parts of my wandring Life
+I had seen something of the immense Wealth, which the Buccaneers, and other
+Adventurers, met with in their scouring about the World for Purchase, I
+had, for a long Time, meditated in my Thoughts to get possess'd of a good
+Ship for that Purpose, if I could, and to try my Fortune. I had been some
+Years in the Bay of _Campeachy_, and tho' with Patience I endur'd the
+Fatigue of that laborious Life, yet it was as visible to others as to
+myself, that I was not form'd by Nature for a Logwood-Cutter, any more than
+I was for a Foremast-man; and therefore Night and Day I apply'd myself to
+study how I should dismiss myself from that Drudgery, and get to be, first
+or last, Master of a good Ship, which was the utmost of my Ambition at that
+Time; resolving, in the mean Time, that when ever any such Thing should
+happen, I would try my Fortune in the Cruising Trade, but would be sure not
+to prey upon my own Countrymen.
+
+It was many Years after this before I could bring my Purposes to pass; and
+I serv'd, first, in some of the Adventures of Captain _Sharp_, Captain
+_Sawkins_, and others, in their bold Adventures in the South Seas, where I
+got a very good Booty; was at the taking of _Puna_, where we were oblig'd
+to leave infinite Wealth behind us, for want of being able to bring it
+away; and after several Adventures in those Seas, was among that Party who
+fought their Way Sword in Hand thro' all the Detachments of the
+_Spaniards_, in the Journey over Land, cross the Isthmus of _Darien_, to
+the North Seas; and when other of our Men gat away, some one Way, some
+another, I, with twelve more of our Men, by Help of a _Periagua_, gat into
+the Bay of _Campeachy_, where we fell very honestly to cutting of Logwood,
+not for Want, but to employ ourselves till we could make off.
+
+Here three of our Men dy'd, and we that were left, shar'd their Money among
+us; and having stay'd here two Years, without seeing any Way of Escape that
+I dar'd to trust to, I at last, with two of our Men, who spoke _Spanish_
+perfectly well, made a desperate Attempt to travel over Land to L-- having
+bury'd all our Money, (which was worth eight thousand Pieces of Eight a
+Man, tho' most of it in Gold) in a Pit in the Earth which we dug twelve
+Foot deep, and where it would have lyen still, for no Man knew where to
+look for it; but we had an Opportunity to come at it again some Years
+after.
+
+We travell'd along the Sea-shore five Days together, the Weather exceeding
+hot, and did not doubt but we should so disguise ourselves as to be taken
+for _Spaniards_; but our better Fortune provided otherwise for us, for the
+sixth Day of our March we found a Canoe lying on the Shore with no one in
+her: We found, however, several Things in her, which told us plainly that
+she belong'd to some _Englishmen_ who were on Shore; so we resolv'd to sit
+down by her and wait: By and by we heard the _Englishmen_, who were seven
+in Number, and were coming back to their Boat, having been up the Country
+to an _Ingenio_, where they had gotten great Quantities of Provision, and
+were bringing it down to their Boat which they had left on the Shore, (with
+the Help of five _Indians_, of whom they had bought it) not thinking there
+was any People thereabouts: When they saw us, not knowing who we were, they
+were just going to fire at us; when I, perceiving it, held up a white Flag
+as high as I could reach it, which was, in short, only a Piece of an old
+Linnen Wastcoat which I had on, and pull'd it off for the Occasion; upon
+this, however, they forbore firing at us, and when they came nearer to us,
+they could easily see that we were their own Countrymen: They enquir'd of
+us what we came there for; we told them, we had travell'd from _Campeachy_,
+where being tir'd with the Hardships of our Fortune, and not getting any
+Vessel to carry us where we durst go, we were even desperate, and cared not
+what became of us; so that had not they came to us thus happily, we should
+have put our selves into the Hands of the _Spaniards_ rather than have
+perish'd where we were.
+
+They took us into their Boat, and afterwards carry'd us on Board their
+Ship; when we came there, we found they were a worse Sort of Wanderers than
+ourselves, for tho' we had been a Kind of Pyrates, known and declar'd
+Enemies to the _Spaniards_, yet it was to them only, and to no other; for
+we never offer'd to rob any of our other _European_ Nations, either _Dutch_
+or _French_, much less _English_; but now we were listed in the Service of
+the Devil indeed, and, like him, were at War with all Mankind.
+
+However, we not only were oblig'd to sort with them, while with them, but
+in a little Time the Novelty of the Crime wore off, and we grew harden'd to
+it, like the rest: And in this Service I spent four Years more of my Time.
+
+Our Captain in this Pirate Ship was nam'd _Nichols_, but we call'd him
+Captain _Redhand_; it seems it was a _Scots_ Sailor gave him that Name,
+when he was not the Head of the Crew, because he was so bloody a Wretch,
+that he scarce ever was at the taking any Prize, but he had a Hand in some
+Butchery or other.
+
+They were hard put to it for fresh Provisions, or they would not have sent
+thus up into the Country a single Canoe; and when I came on Board they were
+so straiten'd, that, by my Advice, they resolv'd to go to the Isle of
+_Cuba_ to kill wild Beef, of which the South Side of the Island is so full:
+Accordingly we sail'd thither directly.
+
+The Vessel carry'd sixteen Guns, but was fitted to carry twenty two, and
+there was on Board one hundred and sixty stout Fellows, as bold and as
+case-harden'd for the Work as ever I met with upon any Occasion whatever:
+We victual'd in this Place for eight Months, by our Calculation; but our
+Cook, who had the Management of the Salting and Pickling the Beef, order'd
+his Matters so, that had he been let alone he would have starv'd us all,
+and poison'd us too; for as we are oblig'd to hunt the black Cattle in the
+Island sometimes a great while before we can shoot them, it should be
+observ'd, that the Flesh of those that are heated before they are kill'd,
+is not fit to be pickled or salted up for Keeping.
+
+But this Man happening to pickle up the Beef, without Regard to this
+particular Distinction, most of the Beef, so pickled, stunk before we left
+the Place, so that we were oblig'd to throw it all away: The Men then said
+it was impossible to salt any Beef in those hot Countries, so as to
+preserve it, and would have had us given it over, and ha' gone to the Coast
+of _New England_, or _New York_, for Provisions; but I soon convinc'd them
+of the Mistake, and by only using the Caution, _viz._ not to salt up any
+Beef of those Cattle that had been hunted, we cur'd one hundred and forty
+Barrels of very good Beef, and such as lasted us a very great while.
+
+I began to be of some Repute among them upon this Occasion, and _Redhand_
+took me into the Cabin with him to consult upon all Emergencies, and gave
+me the Name of Captain, though I had then no Command: By this Means I gave
+him an Account of all my Adventures in the South Seas, and what a
+prodigious Booty we got there with Captain _Goignet_, the _Frenchman_, and
+with Captain _Sharp_, and others; encouraging him to make an Attempt that
+Way, and proposing to him to go away to the _Brasils_, and so round by the
+Straits of _Magellan_, or _Cape Horn_.
+
+However, in this he was more prudent than I, and told me, that not only the
+Strength but the Force of his Ship was too small, not but that he had Men
+enough, as he said very well, but he wanted more Guns, and a better Ship;
+for indeed the Ship we were in was but a weak crazy Boat for so long a
+Voyage: So he said he approv'd my Project very well, but that he thought we
+should try to take some more substantial Vessel for the Business: And says
+he, if we could but take a good stout Ship, fit to carry thirty Guns, and a
+Sloop, or Brigantine, he would go with all his Heart.
+
+This I could not but approve of; so we form'd the Scheme of the Design, and
+he call'd all his Men together, and propos'd it to them, and they all
+approv'd it with a general Consent; and I had the Honour of being the
+Contriver of the Voyage. From this Time we resolv'd, some how or other, to
+get a better Ship under us, and it was not long before an Opportunity
+presented to our Mind.
+
+Being now upon the Coast of the Island of _Cuba_, we stood away West,
+coasting the Island, and so went away for _Florida_, where we cruis'd among
+the Islands, and in the Wake of the Gulph; but nothing presented a great
+while; at length we spy'd a Sail, which prov'd an _English_ homeward bound
+Ship from _Jamaica_: We immediately chac'd her, and came up with her; she
+was a stout Ship, and the Captain defended her very well; and had she not
+been a comber'd deep Ship, being full loaded, so that they could scarce
+come at their Guns, we should have had our Hands full of her. But when they
+found what we were, and that, being full of Men, we were resolv'd to be on
+Board them, and that we had hoisted the black Flag, a Signal that we would
+give them no Quarter, they began to sink in their Spirits, and soon after
+cry'd Quarter, offering to yield: _Redhand_ would have given them no
+Quarter, but, according to his usual Practice, would have thrown the Men
+all into the Sea; but I prevail'd with him to give them Quarter, and good
+Usage too; and so they yielded; and a very rich Prize it was, only that we
+knew not what to do with the Cargo.
+
+When we came to consider more seriously the Circumstances we were in by
+taking this Ship, and what we should do with her, we found, that she was
+not only deep loaden, but was a very heavy Sailer, and that, in short, she
+was not such a Ship as we wanted; so, upon long Debate, we resolv'd to take
+out of her all the Rum, the Indigo, and the Money we could come at, with
+about twenty Casks of Sugar, and twelve of her Guns, with all the
+Ammunition, small Arms, Bullets, _&c._ and let her go; which was
+accordingly done, to the great Joy of the Captain that commanded her:
+However, we took in her about six thousand Pounds Sterling in Pieces of
+Eight.
+
+But the next Prize we met, suited us better on all Accounts, being a Ship
+from _Kingsale_ in _Ireland_, loaden with Beef, and Butter, and Beer, for
+_Barbadoes_; never was Ship more welcome to Men in our Circumstances; this
+was the very Thing we wanted: We saw the Ship early in the Morning, at
+about five Leagues Distance, and we was three Days in Chace of her; she
+stood from us, as if she would have run away for the _Cape de Verd_
+Islands, and two or three Times we thought she sail'd so well she would
+have got away from us, but we had always the good Luck to get Sight of her
+in the Morning: She was about 260 Tun, an _English_ Frigat-built Ship, and
+had 12 Guns on Board, but could carry 20. The Commander was a Quaker, but
+yet had he been equal to us in Force, it appear'd by his Countenance he
+would not have been afraid of his Flesh, or have baulk'd using the Carnal
+Weapon of Offence, _viz._ the Cannon Ball.
+
+We soon made ourselves Master of this Ship when once we came up with him,
+and he was every Thing that we wanted; so we began to shift our Guns into
+her, and shifted about 60 Tun of her Butter and Beef into our own Frigate;
+this made the _Irish_ Vessel be a clear Ship, lighter in the Water, and
+have more Room on Board for Fight, if Occasion offer'd.
+
+When we had the old Quaking Skipper on Board, we ask'd him whether he would
+go along with us; he gave us no Answer at first; but when we ask'd him
+again, he return'd, that he did not know whether it might be safe for him
+to answer the Question: We told him, he should either go or stay, as he
+pleas'd; Why then, says he, I had rather ye will give me Leave to decline
+it.
+
+We gave him Leave, and accordingly set him on Shore afterwards at _Nevis_,
+with ten of his Men; the rest went along with us as Volunteers, except the
+Carpenter and his Mate, and the Surgeon, those we took by Force: We were
+now supply'd as well as Heart could wish, had a large Ship in our
+Possession, with Provisions enough for a little Fleet rather than for a
+single Ship. So with this Purchase we went away for the _Leeward Islands_,
+and fain we would have met with some of the _New York_ or _New England_
+Ships, which generally come loaden with Peas, Flower, Pork, _&c._ But it
+was a long while before any Thing of that Kind presented. We had promis'd
+the _Irish_ Captain to set him on Shore, with his Company, at _Nevis_, but
+we were not willing till we had done our Business in those Seas, because of
+giving the Alarm among the Islands; so we went away for St. _Domingo_, and
+making that Island our Rendezvous, we cruis'd to the Eastward, in Hopes of
+some Purchase; it was not long before we spy'd a Sail, which prov'd to be a
+_Burmoodas_ Sloop, but bound from _Virginia_ or _Maryland_, with Flower,
+Tobacco, and some Malt; the last a Thing which in particular we knew not
+what to do with: However, the Flower and Tobacco was very welcome, and the
+Sloop no less welcome than the rest; for she was a very large Vessel, and
+carry'd near 60 Tun, and when not so deep loaden, prov'd an excellent
+Sailer. Soon after this we met with another Sloop, but she was bound from
+_Barbadoes_ to _New England_, with Rum, Sugar, and Molosses: Nothing
+disturb'd us in taking this Vessel, but that being willing enough to let
+her go; (for as to the Sugar and Molosses, we had neither Use for them, or
+Room for them) but to have let her go, had been to give the Alarm to all
+the Coast of _North America_, and then what we wanted would never come in
+our Way. Our Captain, justly call'd _Redhand_, or _Bloodyhand_, was
+presently for dispatching them, that they might tell no Tales; and, indeed,
+the Necessity of the Method had very near prevail'd; nor did I much
+interpose here, I know not why, but some of the other Men put him in as
+good a Way; and that was, to bring the Sloop to an Anchor under the Lee of
+St. _Domingo_, and take away all her Sails, that she should not stir till
+we gave her Leave.
+
+We met with no less than five Prizes more here in about 20 Days Cruise, but
+none of them for our Turn; one of them, indeed, was a Vessel bound to St.
+_Christopher_'s with _Madera_ Wine: We borrow'd about 20 Pipes of the Wine,
+and let her go. Another was a _New England_ built Ship, of about 150 Tun,
+bound also Home with Sugar and Molosses, which was good for nothing to us;
+however, we gat near 1000 _l._ on Board her in Pieces of Eight, and taking
+away her Sails, as before, brought her to an Anchor under the Lee of the
+Sloop: At last we met with what we wanted, and this was another Ship of
+about 100 Tun, from _New England_, bound to _Barbadoes_; she had on Board
+150 Barrels of Flower, about 350 Barrels of Pease, and 10 Tun of Pork
+barrell'd up and pickel'd, besides some live Hogs, and some Horses, and six
+Tun of Beer.
+
+We were now sufficiently provided for; in all those Prizes we got also
+about 56 Men, who, by Choice and Volunteer, agree'd to go along with us,
+including the Carpenters and Surgeons, who we oblig'd always to go; so that
+we were now above 200 Men, two Ships, and the _Burmoodas_ Sloop; and giving
+the other Sloop, and the _New England_ homeward bound Ship their Sails
+again, we let them go; and as to the Malt which we took in the _Burmoodas_
+Sloop, we gave it the last _New England_ Master, who was going to
+_Barbadoes_.
+
+We gat in all those Ships, besides the Provisions above-mention'd, about
+200 Musquets and Pistols, good Store of Cutlasses, about 20 Tun of Iron
+Shot and Musquet Ball, and 33 Barrels of good Powder, which was all very
+suitable Things to our Occasions.
+
+We were fully satisfy'd, as we said to one another, now, and concluded that
+we would stand away to the Windward, as well as we could, towards the Coast
+of _Africa_, that we might come in the Wind's Way for the Coast of
+_Brasil_; but our Frigat (I mean that we were first shipp'd in) was yet out
+upon the Cruise, and not come in; so we came to an Anchor to wait for her,
+when, behold, the next Morning she came in with full Sail, and a Prize in
+Tow: She had, it seems, been farther West than her Orders, but had met with
+a _Spanish_ Prize, whither bound, or from whence, I remember we did not
+enquire, but we found in her, besides Merchandize, which we had no Occasion
+for, 65000 Pieces of Eight in Silver, some Gold, and two Boxes of Pearl of
+a good Value; five _Dutch_, or rather _Flemish_, Seamen that were on Board
+her, were willing to go with us; and as to the rest of the Cargo, we let
+her go, only finding four of her Guns were Brass, we took them into our
+Ship, with seven great Jars of Powder, and some Cannon-Shot, and let her
+go, using the _Spaniards_ very civilly.
+
+This was a Piece of meer good Fortune to us, and was so encouraging as
+nothing could be more, for it set us up, as we may say; for now we thought
+we could never fail of good Fortune, and we resolv'd, one and all, directly
+to the South Seas.
+
+It was about the Middle of _August_ 1690 that we set forward, and steering
+E. by S. and E. S. E. for about fifteen Days, with the Winds at N. N. W.
+variable, we came quickly into the Trade Winds, with a good Offing, to go
+clear of all the Islands; and so we steer'd directly for _Cape St.
+Augustin_ in the _Brasils_, which we made the 22nd of _September_.
+
+We cruis'd some Time upon the Coast, about the Bay of _All Saints_, and put
+in once or twice for fresh Water, especially at the Island of St. _John_'s,
+where we got good Store of Fish, and some Hogs, which, for fresh
+Provisions, was a great Relief to us: But we gat no Purchase here; for
+whether it was that their _European_ Ships were just come in, or just gone
+out, we know not, or whether they suspected what we were, and so kept close
+within their Ports, but in thirteen Days that we ply'd off and on about
+_Fernambuque_, and about fourteen Days more that we spent in coasting along
+the _Brasil_ Shore to the South, we met not one Ship, neither saw a Sail,
+except of their Fishing-Boats or small Coasters, who kept close under
+Shore.
+
+We cross'd the Line here about the latter End of _September_, and found the
+Air exceeding hot and unwholsome, the Sun being in the _Zenith_, and the
+Weather very wet and rainy; so we resolv'd to stand away South, without
+looking for any more Purchase on that Side.
+
+Accordingly we kept on to the South, having tolerable good Weather, and
+keeping the Shore all the Way in View till we came the Length of St.
+_Julien_, in the Latitude of 48 Degrees, 22 Minutes South; here we put in
+again, being the Beginning of _November_, and took in fresh Water, and
+spent about ten Days, refreshing ourselves, and fitting our Tackle; all
+which Time we liv'd upon Penguins and Seals, of which we kill'd an
+innumerable Number; and when we prepar'd to go, we salted up as many
+Penguins as we found would serve our whole Crew, to eat them twice a Week
+as long as they would keep.
+
+Here we consulted together about going thro' the Straits of _Magellan_; but
+I put them quite out of Conceit of making that troublesom and fatieguing
+Adventure, the Straits being so hazardous, and so many Winds requir'd to
+pass them; and having assur'd them, that in our Return with _Bat Sharp_, we
+went away to the Latitude of 55 Degrees 30 Minutes, and then steering due
+East, came open with the North Seas in five Days Run, they all agreed to go
+that Way.
+
+On the 20th of November we weigh'd from Port _Julien_, and having a fair
+Wind at N. E. by E. led it away merrily, till we came into the Latitude of
+54, when the Wind veering more Northerly, and then to the N. W. blowing
+hard, we were driven into 55 Degrees and half, but lying as near as we
+could to the Wind, we made some Westward Way withal: The 3d of _December_
+the Wind came up South, and S. E. by S. being now just as it were at the
+Beginning of the Summer Solstice in that Country.
+
+With this Wind, which blew a fresh Gale, we stood away N. N. W. and soon
+found ourselves in open Sea, to the West of _America_; upon which we haul'd
+away N. by E. and N. N. E. and then N. E. when on the 20th of _December_ we
+made the Land, being the Coast of _Chili_, in the Latitude of 41 Degrees,
+about the Height of _Baldivia_; and we stood out from hence till we made
+the Isle of St. _Juan Fernando_, where we came to an Anchor, and went on
+Shore to get fresh Water; also some of our Men went a hunting for Goats, of
+which we kill'd enough to feed us all with fresh Meat for all the while we
+stay'd here, which was 22 Days. [_Jan._ 11.]
+
+During this Stay we sent the Sloop out to Cruise, but she came back without
+seeing any Vessel; after which we order'd her out again more to the North,
+but she was scarce gone a League, when she made a Signal that she saw a
+Sail, and that we should come out to help them; accordingly the Frigat put
+to Sea after them, but making no Signal for us to follow, we lay still, and
+work'd hard at cleaning our Ship, shifting some of the Rigging, and the
+like.
+
+We heard no more of them in three Days, which made us repent sorely that we
+had not gone all three together; but the third Day they came back, tho'
+without any Prize, as we thought, but gave us an Account that they had
+chac'd a great Ship and a Bark all Night, and the next Day; that they took
+the Bark the Evening before, but found little in her of Value; that the
+great Ship ran on Shore among some Rocks, where they durst not go in after
+her, but that manning out their Boats, they got on Shore so soon, that the
+Men belonging to her durst not land; that then they threaten'd to burn the
+Ship as she lay, and burn them all in her, if they did not come on Shore
+and surrender: They offer'd to surrender, giving them their Liberty, which
+our Men would not promise at first; but after some Parly, and arguing on
+both Sides, our Men agreed thus far, that they should remain Prisoners for
+so long as we were in those Seas, but that as soon as we came to the Height
+of _Panama_, or if we resolv'd to return sooner, then they should be set at
+Liberty; and to these hard Conditions they yielded.
+
+Our Men found in the Ship 6 Brass Guns, 200 Sacks of Meal, some Fruit, and
+the Value of 160000 Pieces of Eight in Gold of _Chili_, as good as any in
+the World: It was a glittering Sight, and enough to dazzle the Eyes of
+those that look'd on it, to see such a Quantity of Gold laid all of a Heap
+together, and we began to embrace one another in Congratulation of our good
+Fortune.
+
+We brought the Prisoners all to the Island _Fernando_, where we used them
+very well, built little Houses for them, gave them Bread, and Meat, and
+every Thing they wanted; and gave them Powder and Ball to kill Goats with,
+which they were fully satisfy'd with, and kill'd a great many for us too.
+
+We continu'd to Cruise [_Feb._ 2] hereabout, but without finding any other
+Prize for near three Weeks more; so we resolv'd to go up as high as _Puna_,
+the Place where I had been so lucky before; and we assur'd our Prisoners,
+that in about two Months we would return, and relieve them; but they chose
+rather to be on Board us, so we took them all in again, and kept on with an
+easy Sail, at a proper Distance from Land, that we might not be known, and
+the Alarm given; for as to the Ship which we had taken, and which was
+stranded among the Rocks, as we had taken all the Men out of her, the
+People on the Shore, when they should find her, could think no other than
+that she was driven on Shore by a Storm, and that all the People were
+drown'd, or all escap'd and gone; and there was no Doubt but that the Ship
+would beat to Pieces in a very few Days.
+
+We kept, I say, at a Distance from the Shore, to prevent giving the Alarm;
+but it was a needless Caution, for the Country was all alarm'd on another
+Account, _viz._ about an 130 bold Buccaneers had made their Way over Land,
+not at the Isthmus of _Darien_, as usual, but from _Granada_, on the Lake
+of _Nicaragua_ to the North of _Panama_, by which, tho' the Way was longer,
+and the Country not so practicable as at the ordinary Passage, yet they
+were unmolested, for they surpriz'd the Country; and whereas the
+_Spaniards_, looking for them at the old Passage, had drawn Entrenchments,
+planted Guns, and posted Men at the Passages of the Mountains, to intercept
+them and cut them off, here they met with no _Spaniards_, nor any other
+Obstruction in their Way, but coming to the South Sea had Time,
+undiscover'd, to build themselves Canoes and Periaguas, and did a great
+deal of Mischief upon the Shore, having been follow'd, among the rest, by
+80 Men more, commanded by one _Guilotte_, a _Frenchman_, an old Buccaneer;
+so that they were now 210 Men; and they were not long at Sea before they
+took two _Spanish_ Barks going from _Guatimala_ to _Panama_, loaden with
+Meal, Coco, and other Provisions; so that now they were a Fleet of two
+Barks, with several Canoes, and Periaguas, but no Guns, nor any more
+Ammunition than every one carry'd at first at their Backs.
+
+However, this Troop of Desperadoes had alarm'd all the Coast, and Expresses
+both by Sea and Land were dispatch'd, to warn the Towns on the Coast to be
+upon their Guard, all the way from _Panama_ to _Lima_; but as they were
+represented to be only such Freebooters as I have said, Ships of Strength
+did not desist their Voyages, as they found Occasion, as we shall observe
+presently: We were now gotten into the Latitude of 10, 11, and 12 Degrees
+and a Half; but, in our overmuch Caution, had kept out so far to Sea, that
+we miss'd every Thing which would otherwise have fallen into our Hands; but
+we were better inform'd quickly, as you shall hear.
+
+Early in the Morning, one of our Men being on the Missen-top, cry'd, A
+Sail, a Sail; it prov'd to be a small Vessel standing just after us; and as
+we understood afterwards, did so, believing that we were some of the King's
+Ships looking after the Buccaneers. As we understood she was a-Stern of us,
+we shorten'd Sail, and hung out the _Spanish_ Colours, separating
+ourselves, to make him suppose we were cruising for the Buccaneers, and did
+not look for him; however, when we saw him come forward, but stretching in
+a little towards the Shore, we took Care to be so much to Starboard that he
+could not escape us that Way; and when he was a little nearer, the Sloop
+plainly chac'd him, and in a little Time came up with him, and took him: We
+had little Goods in the Vessel, their chief Loading being Meal and Corn for
+_Panama_, but the Master happen'd to have 6000 Pieces of Eight in his
+Cabin, which was good Booty.
+
+But that which was better than all this to us was, that the Master gave us
+an Account of two Ships which were behind, and were under Sail for _Lima_
+or _Panama_; the one having the Revenues of the Kingdom of _Chili_, and the
+other having a great Quantity of Silver, going from _Puna_ to _Lima_, to be
+forwarded from thence to _Panama_, and that they kept together, being Ships
+of Force, to protect one another; how they did it we soon saw the Effects
+of.
+
+Upon this Intelligence we were very joyful, and assur'd the Master, that if
+we found it so, we would give him his Vessel again, and all his Goods,
+except his Money, as for That, we told him, such People as we never
+return'd it any Body: However, the Man's Intelligence prov'd good, for the
+very next Day, as we were standing South-West, our _Spanish_ Colours being
+out, as above, we spy'd one of the Ships, and soon after the other; we
+found they had discover'd us also, and that being doubtful what to make of
+us, they tack'd and stood Eastward to get nearer the Land; we did the like,
+and as we found there was no letting them go that Way but that we should be
+sure to lose them, we soon let them know that we were resolv'd to speak
+with them.
+
+The biggest Ship, which was three Leagues a-Stern of the other, crowded in
+for the Shore with all the Sail, she could make, and it was easy for us to
+see that she would escape us; for as she was a great deal farther in with
+the Land than the other when we first gave Chace, so in about three Hours
+we saw the Land plain a-Head of us, and that the great Ship would get into
+Port before we could reach her.
+
+Upon this we stretch'd a-Head with all the Sail we could make, and the
+Sloop, which crowded also very hard, and out-went us, engag'd the small
+Ship at least an Hour before we could come up: But she could make little of
+it, for the _Spanish_ Ship having 12 Guns and 6 Patereroes, would have been
+too many for the Sloop if we had not come up: However, at length, our
+biggest Ship came up also, and, running up under her Quarter, gave her our
+whole Broadside; at which she struck immediately, and the _Spaniards_
+cry'd, _Quarter_, and _Miserecordia_; Upon this, our Sloop's Men enter'd
+her presently, and secur'd her.
+
+In the Beginning oft his Action, it seems, our _Redhand_ Captain was so
+provok'd at losing the greater Prize, which, as he thought, had all the
+Money on Board, that he swore he would not spare one of the Dogs, (so he
+call'd the _Spaniards_ in the other Ship) but he was prevented; and it was
+very happy for the _Spaniards_, that the first Shot the Ship made towards
+us, just as we were running up to pour in our Broadside, I say, the first
+Shot took Captain _Redhand_ full on the Breast, and shot his Head and one
+Shoulder off, so that he never spoke more, nor did I find that any one Man
+in the Ship shew'd the least Concern for him; so certain it is, that
+Cruelty never recommends any Man among _Englishmen_; no, tho' they have no
+Share in the suffering under it; but one said, D--n him, let him go, he was
+a butcherly Dog; another said, D--n him, he was a merciless Son of a B--ch;
+another said, he was a barbarous Dog, and the like.
+
+But to return to the Prize, being now as certain of the smaller Prize as
+that we had miss'd the great one, we began to examine what we had got; and
+it is not easy to give an exact Account of the prodigious Variety of Things
+we found: In the first Place, were 116 Chests of Pieces of Eight in Specie,
+72 Bars of Silver, 15 Bags of wrought Plate, which a Fryer that was on
+Board would have perswaded us, for the Sake of the Blessed Virgin, to have
+return'd, being, as he said, consecrated Plate to the Honour of the holy
+Church, the Virgin _Mary_, and St. _Martin_; but, as it happen'd, he could
+not perswade us to it; also we found about 60000 Ounces of Gold, some in
+little Wedges, some in Dust. We found several other Things of Value, but
+not to be nam'd with the rest.
+
+Being thus made surprisingly rich, we began to think what Course we should
+steer next; for as the great Ship, which was escap'd, would certainly alarm
+the Country, we might be sure we should meet with no more Purchase at Sea,
+and we were not very fond of landing, to attack any Town on Shore. In this
+Consultation 'tis to be observ'd, that I was, by the unanimous Consent of
+all the Crew, made Captain of the great Ship, and of the whole Crew; the
+whole Voyage hither, and every Part of it, having, for some Time before,
+been chiefly manag'd by my Direction, or at least by my Advice.
+
+The first Thing I propos'd to them all, was, seeing we had met with such
+good Luck, and that we could not expect much more, and if we stay'd longer
+in these Seas, should find it very hard to revictual our Ships, and might
+have our Retreat cut off by _Spanish_ Men of war; (five of which we heard
+were sent out after the other Buccaneers) we should make the best of our
+Way to the South, and get about into the North Seas, where we were out of
+all Danger.
+
+In Consequence of this Advice, which was generally approv'd, we stood away
+directly South; and the Wind blowing pretty fair at N. N. E. a merry Gale,
+we stood directly for the Isle of _Juan Fernando_, carrying our rich Prize
+with us.
+
+We arriv'd here the Beginning of _June_, having been just six Months in
+those Seas. We were surpriz'd, when coming to the Island, we found two
+Ships at an Anchor close under the Lee of the Rocks, and two little
+Periaguas farther in, near the Shore; but being resolv'd to see what they
+were, we found, to our Satisfaction, they were the Buccaneers of whom I
+have spoken above: The Story is too long to enter upon here; but in short,
+without Guns, without Ship, and only coming over Land with their Fusees in
+their Hands, they had rang'd these Seas, had taken several Prizes, and some
+pretty rich, and had got two pretty handsome Barks, one carry'd six Guns,
+and the other four; they had shar'd, as they told us, about 400 Pieces of
+Eight a Man, besides one Thing they had which we were willing to buy of
+them; they had about 100 Jarrs of Gunpowder, which they took out of a Store
+Ship going to _Lima_.
+
+If we was glad to meet them, you may be sure they were glad to meet with
+us, and so we began to sort together as one Company, only they were loth to
+give over and return, as we were and which we had now resolv'd on.
+
+We were so rich ourselves, and so fully satisfy'd with what we had taken,
+that we began to be bountiful to our Countrymen; and indeed they dealt so
+generously with us, that we could not but be inclin'd to do them some Good,
+for when we talk'd of buying their Gunpowder, they very frankly gave us 50
+Jarrs of it _gratis_.
+
+I took this so kindly, that I call'd a little Council among ourselves, and
+propos'd to send the poor Rogues 50 Barrels of our Beef, which we could
+very well spare; and our Company agreeing to it, we did so, which made
+their Hearts glad; for it was very good, and they had not tasted good
+Salt-beef for a long Time; and with it we sent them two Hogsheads of Rum:
+This made them so hearty to us, that they sent two of their Company to
+compliment us, to offer to enter themselves on Board us, and to go with us
+all the World over.
+
+We did not so readily agree to this at first, because we had no new
+Enterprize in View; but however, as they sent us Word they had chosen me so
+unanimously for their Captain, I propos'd to our Men to remove ourselves,
+and all our Goods, into the great Ship and the Sloop, and so take the
+honest Fellows into the Fregat, which now had no less than 22 Guns, and
+would hold them all, and then they might sail with us, or go upon any
+Adventures of their own, as we should agree.
+
+Accordingly we did so, and gave them that Ship, with all her Guns and
+Ammunition, but made one of our own Men Captain, which they consented to,
+and so we became all one Body.
+
+Here also we shar'd our Booty, which was great indeed to a Profusion; and
+as keeping such a Treasure in every Man's particular private Possession,
+would have occasion'd Gaming, Quarrelling, and perhaps Thieving and
+Pilfering, I order'd that so many small Chests should be made as there were
+Men in the Ship, and every Man's Treasure was nail'd up in these Chests,
+and the Chests all stow'd in the Hold, with every Man's Name upon his
+Chest, not to be touch'd but by general Order, and to prevent Gaming, I
+prevail'd with them to make a Law or Agreement, and everyone to set their
+Hands to it; by which they agreed, That if any Man play'd for any more
+Money than he had in his Keeping, the Winner should not be paid whatever
+the Loser run in Debt, but the Chest containing every Man's Dividend,
+should be all his own, to be deliver'd whole to him; and the Offender,
+whenever he left the Ship, if he would pay any Gaming Debts afterward, that
+was another Case; but such Debts should never be paid while he continu'd in
+that Company.
+
+By this Means also we secur'd the Ship's Crew keeping together; for if any
+Man left the Ship now, he was sure to leave about 6000 Pieces of Eight
+behind him, to be shar'd among the rest of the Ship's Company, which few of
+them car'd to do.
+
+As we were now all embark'd together, the next Question was, Whither we
+should go? As for our Crew, we were so rich, that our Men were all for
+going back again, and so to make off to some of the _Leeward Islands_, that
+we might get a-Shore privately with our Booty: But as we had shipp'd our
+new Comrades on Board a good Ship, it would be very hard to oblige them to
+go back without any Purchace, for that would be to give them a Ship to do
+them no Good, but to carry them back to _Europe_ just as they came out from
+thence, _viz._ with no Money in their Pockets.
+
+Upon these Considerations we came to this Resolution, That they should go
+out to Sea and Cruise the Height of _Lima_, and try their Fortune, and that
+we would stay 60 Days for them at _Juan Fernando_.
+
+Upon this Agreement they went away very joyful, and we fell to work to new
+rig our Ship, mending our Sails, and cleaning our Bottom. Here we employ'd
+ourselves a Month very hard at Work; our Carpenters also took down some of
+the Ship's upper Work, and built it, as we thought, more to the Advantage
+of Sailing; so that we had more Room within, and yet did not lie so high.
+
+During this Time we had a Tent set up on Shore, and 50 of our Men employ'd
+themselves wholly in killing Goats and Fowls for our fresh Provisions; and
+one of our Men understanding we had some Malt left on Board the Ship, which
+was taken in one of the Prizes, set up a great Kettle on Shore, and went to
+work to Brewing, and, to our great Satisfaction, brew'd us some very good
+Beer; but we wanted Bottles to keep it in, after it had stood a while in
+the Cask.
+
+However, he brew'd us very good Small Beer, for present Use; and instead of
+Hops he found some wild Wormwood growing on the Island, which gave it no
+unpleasant Taste, and made it very agreeable to us.
+
+Before the Time was expir'd, our Frigat sent a Sloop to us, which they had
+taken, to give us Notice that they were in a small Creek near the Mould of
+the River _Guyaquil_, on the Coast of _Peru_, in the Latitude of 22
+Degrees. They had a great Booty in View, there being two Ships in the River
+of _Guyaquil_, and two more expected to pass by from _Lima_, in which was a
+great Quantity of Plate; that they waited there for them, and begg'd we
+would not think the Time long; but that if we should go away, they desir'd
+that we would fix up a Post, with a Piece of Lead on it, signifying where
+they should come to us, and wherever it was, East or West, North or South,
+they would follow us with all the Sail they could make.
+
+A little while after this, they sent another Sloop, which they had taken
+also; and she brought a vast Treasure in Silver and very rich Goods, which
+they had got in plundering a Town on the Continent; and they order'd the
+Sloop to wait for them at the Island where we lay, till their Return: But
+they were so eager in the Pursuit of their Game, that they could not think
+of coming back yet, neither could we blame them, they having such great
+Things in View: So we resolv'd, in Pursuit of our former Resolution, to be
+gone; and after several Consultations among our selves in what Part of the
+World we should pitch our Tent, we broke up at first without any
+Conclusion.
+
+We were all of the Opinion, that our Treasure was so great, that wherever
+we went, we should be a Prey to the Government of that Place; that it was
+impossible to go all on Shore, and be conceal'd; and that we should be so
+jealous of one another, that we should certainly betray one another,
+everyone for fear of his Fellow, that is to say, for fear the other should
+tell first. Some therefore propos'd our going about the South Point of Cape
+_Horne_, and that then, going away to the Gulph of _Mexico_, we should go
+on Shore at the Bay of _Campeachy_, and from thence disperse ourselves as
+well as we could, and every one go his own Way.
+
+I was willing enough to have gone thither, because of the Treasure I had
+left there under Ground; but still I concluded we were (as I have said) too
+rich to go on Shore any where to separate, for every Man of us had too much
+Wealth to carry about us; and if we separated, the first Number of Men any
+of us should meet with, that were strong enough to do it, would take it
+from us, and so we should but just expose ourselves to be murder'd for that
+Money we had gotten at so much Hazard.
+
+Some propos'd then our going to the Coast of _Virgina_, and go some on
+Shore in one Place, and some in another privately, and so travelling to the
+Sea-Ports where there were most People, we might be conceal'd, and by
+Degrees reduce our selves to a private Capacity, every one shifting Home as
+well as they could. This I acknowledge might be done, if we were sure none
+of us would be false one to another; but while Tales might be told, and the
+Teller of the Tale was sure to save his own Life and Treasure, and make his
+Peace at the Expence of his Comrade's, there was no Safety; and they might
+be sure, that as the Money would render them suspected wherever they came,
+so they would be examin'd, and what by faltering in their Story, and by
+being cross-examin'd, kept apart, and the one being made to believe the
+other had betray'd him, and told all, when indeed he might have said
+nothing to hurt him, the Truth of Fact would be dragg'd out by Piece-meal,
+till they would certainly at last come to the Gallows.
+
+These Objections were equally just, to what Nation or Place soever we could
+think of going: So that upon the whole, we concluded there was no Safety
+for us but by keeping all together, and going to some Part of the World
+where we might be strong enough to defend ourselves, or be so conceal'd
+till we might find out some Way of Escape that we might not now be so well
+able to think of.
+
+In the Middle of all these Consultations, in which I freely own I was at a
+Loss, and could not tell which Way to advise, an old Sailor stood up, and
+told us, if we would be advis'd by him, there was a Part of the World where
+he had been, where we might all settle ourselves undisturb'd, and live very
+comfortably and plentifully, till we could find out some Way how to dispose
+of ourselves better; and that we might easily be strong enough for the
+Inhabitants, who would at first, perhaps, attack us, but that afterwards
+they would sort very well with us, and supply us with all Sorts of
+Provisions very plentifully; and this was the Island of _Madagascar_: He
+told us we might live very well there. He gave us a large Account of the
+Country, the Climate, the People, the Plenty of Provisions which was to be
+had there, especially of black Cattle, of which, he said, there was an
+infinite Number, and consequently a Plenty of Milk, of which so many other
+Things was made: In a Word, he read us so many Lectures upon the Goodness
+of the Place, and the Conveniency of living there, that we were, one and
+all, eager to go thither, and concluded upon it.
+
+Accordingly, having little left to do, (for we had been in a sailing
+Posture some Weeks) we left word with the Officer who commanded the Sloop,
+and with all his Men, that they should come after us to _Madagascar_; and
+our Men were not wanting to let them know all our Reasons for going
+thither, as well as the Difficulties we found of going any where else,
+which had so fully possess'd them with the Hopes of farther Advantage, that
+they promis'd for the rest that they would all follow us.
+
+However, as we all calculated the Length of the Voyage, and that our Water,
+and perhaps our Provisions might not hold out so far, but especially our
+Water, we agreed, that having pass'd Cape _Horn_, and got into the North
+Seas, we would steer Northward up the East Shore of _America_ till we came
+to St. _Julien_, where we would stay at least fourteen Days to take in
+Water, and to store ourselves with Seals and Penguins, which would greatly
+eek out our Ship's Stores; and that then we should cross the great
+_Atlantick_ Ocean in a milder Latitude than if we went directly, and stood
+immediately over from the Passage about the Cape, which must be, at least,
+in 55 or 56, and perhaps, as the Weather might be, would be in the Latitude
+of 60 or 61.
+
+With this Resolution, and under these Measures, we set Sail from the Island
+of St. _Juan Fernando_ the 23d of _September_, (being the same there as our
+_March_ is here) and keeping the Coast of _Chili_ on Board, had good
+Weather for about a Fortnight, [_Octob._ 14.] till we came into the
+Latitude of 44 Degrees South; when finding the Wind come squally off the
+Shore from among the Mountains, we were oblig'd to keep farther out at Sea,
+where the Winds were less uncertain; and some Calms we met with, till about
+the Middle of _October_, [16.] when the Wind springing up at N. N. W. a
+pretty moderate Gale, we jogg'd S. E. and S. S. E. till we came into the
+Latitude of 55 Degrees; and the 16th of _November_, found our selves in 59
+Degrees, the Weather exceeding cold and severe. But the Wind holding fair,
+we held in with the Land, and steering E. S. E. we held that Course till we
+thought ourselves entirely clear of the Land, and enter'd into the North
+Sea, or _Atlantick Ocean_; and then changing our Course, we steer'd N. and
+N. N. E. but the Wind blowing still at N. N. W. a pretty stiff Gale, we
+could make nothing of it till we made the Land in the Latitude of 52
+Degrees; and when we came close under Shore, we found the Winds variable;
+so we made still N. under the Lee of the Shore, and made the Point of St.
+_Julien_ the 13th of November, having been a Year and seven Days since we
+parted from thence on our Voyage Outwardbound.
+
+Here we rested ourselves, took in fresh Water, and began to kill Seals and
+Fowls of several Sorts, but especially Penguins, which this Place is noted
+for; and here we stay'd, in Hopes our Fregate would arrive, but we heard no
+News of her; so, at Parting, we set up a Post, with this Inscription, done
+on a Plate of Lead, with our Names upon the Lead, and these Words;
+
+   _Gone to Madagascar_, _December_ 10, 1692.
+
+(Being in that Latitude the longest Day in the Year;) and I doubt not but
+the Post may stand there still.
+
+From hence we launch'd out into the vast _Atlantick Ocean_, steering our
+Coast E. by N. and E. N. E. till we had sail'd, by our Account, about 470
+Leagues, taking our Meridian Distance, or Departure, from St. _Julian_. And
+here a strong Gale springing up at S. E. by E. and E. S. E. encreasing
+afterwards to a violent Storm, we were forc'd by it to the Norward, as high
+as the _Tropick_; not that it blew a Storm all the while, but it blew so
+steady, and so very hard, for near 20 Days together, that we were carry'd
+quite out of our intended Course: After we had weather'd this, we began to
+recover ourselves again, making still East; and endeavouring to get to the
+Southward, we had yet another hard Gale of Wind at S. and S. S. E. so
+strong, that we could make nothing of it at all; whereupon it was resolv'd,
+if we could, to make the Island of St. _Helena_, which in about three Weeks
+more we very happily came to, on the 17th of _January_.
+
+It was to our great Satisfaction that we found no Ships at all here, and we
+resolv'd not by any Means to let the Governor on Shore know our Ship's
+Name, or any of our Officers Names; and I believe our Men were very true to
+one another in that Point, but they were not at all shy of letting them
+know upon what Account we were, _&c._ so that if he could have gotten any
+of us in his Power, as we were afterwards told he endeavour'd by two or
+three Ambuscades to do, we should have pass'd our Time but very
+indifferently; for which, when we went away, we let him know we would not
+have fail'd to have beat his little Port about his Ears.
+
+We stay'd no longer here than just serv'd to refresh ourselves, and supply
+our Want of fresh Water; the Wind presenting fair, _Feb._ 2. 1692, we set
+Sail, and (not to trouble my Story with the Particulars of the Voyage, in
+which nothing remarkable occur'd) we doubled the Cape the 13th of _March_,
+and passing on without coming to an Anchor, or discovering ourselves, we
+made directly to the Island of _Madagascar_, where we arriv'd the 7th of
+_April_; the Sloop, to our particular Satisfaction, keeping in Company all
+the Way, and bearing the Sea as well as our Ship upon all Occasions.
+
+To this Time I had met with nothing but good Fortune; Success answer'd
+every Attempt, and follow'd every Undertaking, and we scarce knew what it
+was to be disappointed; but we had an Interval of our Fortunes to meet with
+in this Place: We arriv'd, as above, at the Island on the 13th of _March_,
+but we did not care to make the South Part of the Island our Retreat; nor
+was it a proper Place for our Business, which was to take Possession of a
+private secure Place to make a Refuge of: So after staying some Time where
+we put in, which was on the Point of Land a little to the South of Cape
+St._ Augustine_, and taking in Water and Provisions there, we stood away to
+the North, and keeping the Island in View, went on till we came to the
+Latitude of 14 Degrees: Here we met with a very terrible Tornado, or
+_Hurricane_, which, after we had beat the Sea as long as we could, oblig'd
+us to run directly for the Shore to save our Lives as well as we could, in
+Hopes of finding some Harbour or Bay where we might run in, or at least
+might go into smooth Water till the Storm was over.
+
+The Sloop was more put to it than we were in the great Ship, and being
+oblig'd to run afore it, a little sooner than we did, she serv'd for a
+Pilot-Boat to us which follow'd; in a Word, she run in under the Lee of a
+great Head-land, which jetted far out into the Sea, and stood very high
+also, and came to an Anchor in three Fathom and a half Water: We follow'd
+her, but not with the same good Luck, tho' we came to an Anchor too, as we
+thought, safe enough; but the Sea going very high, our Anchor came Home in
+the Night, and we drove on Shore in the Dark among the Rocks, in spight of
+all we were able to do.
+
+Thus we lost the most fortunate Ship that ever Man sail'd with; however,
+making Signals of Distress to the Sloop, and by the Assistance of our own
+Boat, we sav'd our Lives; and the Storm abating in the Morning, we had Time
+to save many Things, particularly our Guns, and most of our Ammunition;
+and, which was more than all the rest, we sav'd our Treasure: Tho' I
+mention the saving our Guns first, yet they were the last Things we sav'd,
+being oblig'd to break the upper Deck of the Ship up for them.
+
+Being thus got on Shore, and having built us some Huts for our Conveniency,
+we had nothing before us but a View of fixing our Habitations in the
+Country; for tho' we had the Sloop, we could propose little Advantage by
+her; for as to cruising for Booty among the _Arabians_ or _Indians_, we had
+neither Room, for it or Inclination to it; and as for attacking any
+_European_ Ship, the Sloop was in no Condition to do it, tho' we had all
+been on Board; for every Body knows that all the Ships trading from
+_Europe_ to the _East-Indies_, were Ships of Force, and too strong for us;
+so that, in short, we had nothing in View for several Months but how to
+settle ourselves here, and live as comfortably and as well as we could,
+till something or other might offer for our Deliverance.
+
+In this Condition we remain'd on Shore above eight Months, during which
+Time we built us a little Town, and fortify'd it by the Direction of one of
+our Gunners, who was a very good Engineer, in a very clever and regular
+Manner, placing a very strong double Palisado round the Foot of our Works,
+and a very large Ditch without our Palisado, and a third Palisado beyond
+the Ditch, like a Counterscarp or Cover'd-way; besides this, we rais'd a
+large Battery next to the Sea, with a Line of 24 Guns plac'd before it, and
+thus we thought ourselves in a Condition to defend ourselves against any
+Force that could attempt us in that Part of the World.
+
+And besides all this, the Place on which our Habitation was built, being an
+Island, there was no coming easily at us by Land.
+
+But I was far from being easy in this Situation of our Affairs; so I made a
+Proposal to our Men one Day, that tho' we were well enough in our
+Habitation, and wanted for nothing, yet since we had a Sloop here, and a
+Boat so good as she was, 'twas Pity she should lye and perish there, but we
+should send her Abroad, and see what might happen; that perhaps it might be
+our good Luck to surprise some Ship or other for our Turn, and so we might
+all go to Sea again: The Proposal was well enough relish'd at first Word,
+but the great Mischief of all was like to be this, That we should all go
+together by the Ears upon the Question who should go in her: My secret
+Design was laid, that I was resolv'd to go in her myself, and that she
+should not go without me; but when it began to be talk'd of, I discover'd
+the greatest seeming Resolution not to stir, but to stay with the rest, and
+take Care of the main Chance, that was to say, the Money.
+
+I found, when they saw that I did not propose to go myself, the Men were
+much the easier; for at first they began to think it was only a Project of
+mine to run away from them; and so indeed it was: However, as I did not at
+first propose to go my self, so when I came to the Proposal of who should
+go, I made a long Discourse to them of the Obligation they had all to be
+faithful one to another, and that those who went in the Sloop, ought to
+consider themselves and those that were with them to be but one Body with
+those who were left behind; that their whole Concern ought to be to get
+some good Ship to fetch them off: At last, I concluded, with a Proposal,
+that who ever went in the Sloop, should leave his Money behind in the
+common Keeping, as it was before; to remain as a Pledge for his faithful
+performing the Voyage, and coming back again to the Company; and should
+faithfully swear that wherever they went, (for as to the Voyage, they were
+at full Liberty to go whither they would) they would certainly endeavour to
+get back to _Madagascar_; and that if they were cast away, stranded, taken,
+or whatever befel them, they should never rest till they got to
+_Madagascar_, if it was possible.
+
+They all came most readily into this Proposal, for those who should go into
+the Sloop, but with this Alteration in them, (which was easy to be seen in
+their Countenances) _viz._ that from that Minute there was no striving who
+should go, but every Man was willing to stay where they were: This was what
+I wanted, and I let it rest for two or three Days; when I took Occasion to
+tell them, that seeing they all were sensible that it was a very good
+Proposal to send the Sloop out to Sea, and see what they could do for us, I
+thought it was strange they should so generally shew themselves backward to
+the Service for fear of parting from their Money; I told them that no Man
+need be afraid, that the whole Body should agree to take his Money from him
+without any pretended Offence, much less when he should be Abroad for their
+Service: But however, as it was my Proposal, and I was always willing to
+hazard myself for the Good of them all, so I was ready to go on the
+Conditions I had propos'd to them for others, and I was not afraid to
+flatter myself with serving them so well Abroad, that they should not
+grudge to restore me my Share of Money when I came Home, and the like of
+all those that went with me.
+
+This was so seasonably spoken, and humour'd so well, that it answer'd my
+Design effectually, and I was voted to go _nemine contradicente_; then I
+desir'd they would either draw Lots for who and who should go with me, or
+leave it in my absolute Choice to pick and cull my Men: They had for some
+Time agreed to the first; and forty Blanks were made for those to whose Lot
+it should come to draw a Blank to go in the Sloop; but then it was said,
+this might neither be a fair nor an effectual Choice; for Example, if the
+needful Number of Officers, and of particular Occupations, should not
+happen to be lotted out, the Sloop might be oblig'd to go out to Sea
+without a Surgeon, or without a Carpenter, or without a Cook, and the like:
+So, upon second Thoughts, it was left to me to name my Men; so I chose me
+out forty stout Fellows, and among them several who were trusty bold Men,
+fit for any thing.
+
+Being thus Mann'd, the Sloop rigg'd, and having clear'd her Bottom, and
+laid in Provisions enough for a long Voyage, we set Sail the 3d of
+_January_ 1694, for the _Cape of Good Hope_. We very honestly left our
+Money, as I said, behind us, only that we had about the Value of 2000 Pound
+in Pieces of Eight allow'd us on Board for any Exigence that might happen
+at Sea.
+
+We made no Stop at the _Cape_, or at St. _Helena_, tho' we pass'd in Sight
+of it, but stood over to the _Caribbee_ Islands directly, and made the
+Island of _Tobago_ the 18th of _February_, where we took in fresh Water,
+which we stood in great Need of, as you may judge by the Length of the
+Voyage. We sought no Purchase, for I had fully convinc'd our Men, that our
+Business was not to appear, as we were used to be, upon the Cruise, but as
+Traders; and to that End I propos'd to go away to the Bay of _Campeachy_,
+and load Logwood, under the Pretence of selling of which we might go any
+where.
+
+It is true, I had another Design here, which was to recover the Money which
+my Comrade and I had bury'd there; and having the Man on Board with me to
+whom I had communicated my Design, we found an Opportunity to come at our
+Money with Privacy enough, having so conceal'd it, as that it would have
+lain there to the general Conflagration, if we had not come for it our
+selves.
+
+My next Resolution was to go for _England_, only that I had too many Men,
+and did not know what to do with them: I told them we could never pretend
+to go with a Sloop loaden with Logwood to any Place, with 40 Men on Board,
+but we should be discover'd; but if they would resolve to put 15 or 16 Men
+on Shore as private Seamen, the rest might do well enough; and if they
+thought it hard to be set on Shore, I was content to be one, only that I
+thought it was very reasonable that whoever went on Shore should have some
+Money given them, and that all should agree to rendezvous in _England_, and
+so make the best of our Way thither, and there perhaps we might get a good
+Ship to go fetch off our Comrades and our Money. With this Resolution,
+sixteen of our Men had three hundred Pieces of Eight a Man given them, and
+they went off thus; the Sloop stood away North, thro' the Gulph of
+_Florida_, keeping under the Shore of _Carolina_ and _Virginia_; so our Men
+dropp'd off as if they had deserted the Ship; three of the sixteen run away
+there, five more went off at Virginia, three at _New York_, three at _Road
+Island_, and myself and one more at _New England_; and so the Sloop went
+away for _England_ with the rest. I got all my Money on Shore with me, and
+conceal'd it as well as I could; some I got Bills for, some I bought
+Molosses with, and turn'd the rest into Gold; and dressing myself not as a
+common Sailor, but as a Master of a Ketch, which I had lost in the Bay of
+_Campeachy_, I got Passage on Board one Captain _Guillame_, a _New England_
+Captain, whose Owner was one Mr. _Johnson_ a Merchant, living at _Hackney_,
+near _London_.
+
+Being at _London_, it was but a very few Months before several of us met
+again, as I have said we agreed to do. And being true to our first Design
+of going back to our Comrades, we had several close Conferences about the
+Manner and Figure in which we should make the Attempt, and we had some very
+great Difficulties appear'd in our Way: First, to have fitted up a small
+Vessel, it would be of no Service to us, but be the same Thing as the Sloop
+we came in; and if we pretended to a great Ship, our Money would not hold
+out; so we were quite at a Stand in our Councils what to do, or what Course
+to take, till at length our Money still wasting, we grew less able to
+execute any Thing we should project.
+
+This made us all desperate; when as desperate Distempers call for desperate
+Cures, I started a Proposal which pleas'd them all, and this was, that I
+would endeavour among my Acquaintance, and with what Money I had left,
+(which was still sixteen or seventeen hundred Pound) to get the Command of
+a good Ship, bearing a quarter Part, or thereabout, myself; and so having
+gat into the Ship, and got a Freight, the rest of our Gang should all enter
+on Board as Seamen, and whatever Voyage we went, or wheresoever we were
+bound, we would run away with the Ship and all the Goods, and so go to our
+Friends as we had promis'd.
+
+I made several Attempts of this Kind, and once bought a very good Ship,
+call'd, _The Griffin_, of one _Snelgrove_ a Shipwright, and engag'd the
+Persons concern'd to hold a Share in her and fit her out, on a Voyage for
+_Leghorn_ and _Venice_; when it was very probable the Cargo, to be shipp'd
+on Board casually by the Merchant, would be very rich; but Providence, and
+the good Fortune of the Owner prevented this Bargain, for without any
+Objection against me, or Discovery of my Design in the least, he told me
+afterwards his Wife had an ugly Dream or two about the Ship; once, that it
+was set on Fire by Lightning, and he had lost all he had in it; another
+Time, that the Men had mutiny'd and conspir'd to kill him; and that his
+Wife was so averse to his being concern'd in it, that it had always been an
+unlucky Ship, and that therefore his Mind was chang'd; that he would sell
+the whole Ship, if I would, but he would not hold any Part of it himself.
+
+Tho' I was very much disappointed at this, yet I put a very good Face upon
+it, and told him, I was very glad to hear him tell me the Particulars of
+his Dissatisfaction; for if there was any Thing in Dreams, and his Wife's
+Dream had any Signification at all, it seem'd to concern me (more than him)
+who was to go the Voyage, and command the Ship; and whether the Ship was to
+be burnt, or the Men to mutiny, tho' Part of the Loss might be his, who was
+to stay on Shore, all the Danger was to be mine, who was to be at Sea in
+her; and then, as he had said, she had been an unlucky Ship to him, it was
+very likely she would be so to me; and therefore I thank'd him for the
+Discovery, and told him I would not meddle with her.
+
+The Man was uneasy, and began to waver in his Resolution, and had it not
+been for the continu'd Importunities of his Wife, I believe would have come
+on again; for People generally encline to a Thing that is rejected, when
+they would reject the same Thing when profer'd: But I knew it was not my
+Business to let myself be blow'd upon, so I kept to my Resolution, and
+wholly declin'd that Affair, on Pretence of its having got an ill Name for
+an unlucky Ship; and that Name stuck so to her, that the Owners could never
+sell her, and, as I have been inform'd since, were oblig'd to break her up
+at last.
+
+It was a great while I spent with hunting after a Ship, but was every Way
+disappointed, till Money grew short, and the Number of my Men lessen'd
+apace, and at last we were reduc'd to seven, when an Opportunity happen'd
+in my Way to go Chief-Mate on Board a stout Ship bound from _London_ to
+. . . . . .
+
+[_N. B. In Things so modern, it is no Way convenient to write to you
+particular Circumstances and Names of Persons, Ships, or Places, because
+those Things being in themselves criminal, may be call'd up in Question in
+a judicial Way; and therefore I warn the Reader to observe, that not only
+all the Names are omitted, but even the Scene of Action in this criminal
+Part, is not laid exactly as Things were acted; least I should give Justice
+a Clew to unravel my Story by, which no Body will blame me for avoiding._]
+
+It is enough to tell the Reader, that being put out to Sea, and being for
+Conveniency of Wind and Weather come to an Anchor on the Coast of _Spain_,
+my seven Companions having resolv'd upon our Measures, and having brought
+three more of the Men to confederate with us, we took up Arms in the middle
+of the Night, secur'd the Captain, the Gunner, and the Carpenter, and after
+that, all the rest of the Men, and declar'd our Intention: The Captain and
+nine Men refus'd to come into our projected Roguery, (for we gave them
+their Choice to go with us, or go on Shore) so we put them on Shore very
+civilly, gave the Master his Books, and every Thing he could carry with
+him; and all the rest of the Men agreed to go along with us.
+
+As I had resolv'd, before I went on Board, upon what I purpos'd to do, so I
+had laid out all the Money I had left in such Things as I knew I should
+want, and had caus'd one of my Men to pretend he was going to ------ to
+build or buy a Ship there, and that he wanted Freight for a great deal of
+Cordage, Anchors, eight Guns, Powder and Ball, with about 20 Tun of Lead
+and other bulky Goods, which were all put on Board as Merchandize.
+
+We had not abundance of Bail Goods on Board, which I was glad of; not that
+I made any Conscience or Scruple of carrying them away, if the Ship had
+been full of them; but we had no Market for them: Our first Business was to
+get a larger Store of Provision on Board than we had, our Voyage being
+long; and having acquainted the Men with our Design, and promis'd the new
+Men a Share of the Wealth we had there, which made them very hearty to us,
+we set Sail: We took in some Beef and Fish, at ------ where we lay fifteen
+Days, but out of all Reach of the Castle or Fort; and having done our
+Business, sail'd away for the _Canaries_, where we took in some Butts of
+Wine, and some fresh Water: With the Guns the Ship had, and those eight I
+had put on Board as Merchandize, we had then two and thirty Guns mounted,
+bur were but slenderly Mann'd, tho' we gat four _English_ Seamen at the
+_Canaries_; but we made up the Loss at _Fiall_, where we made bold with
+three _English_ Ships we found, and partly by fair Means, and partly by
+Force, shipp'd twelve Men there; after which, without any farther Stop for
+Men or Stores, we kept the Coast of _Africa_ on Board 'till we pass'd the
+Line, and then stood off to St. _Helena_.
+
+Here we took in fresh Water, and some fresh Provisions, and went directly
+for the _Cape of Good Hope_, which we pass'd, stopping only to fill about
+22 Butts of Water, and with a fair Gale enter'd the Sea of _Madagascar_,
+and sailing up the West Shore, between the Island and the Coast of
+_Africa_, came to an Anchor over against our Settlement, about two Leagues
+Distance, and made the Signal of our Arrival, with firing twice seven Guns
+at the Distance of a Two-Minute Glass between the Seven; when, to our
+infinite Joy, the Fort answer'd us, and the Long-boat, the same that
+belong'd to our former Ship, came off to us.
+
+We embrac'd one another with inexpressible Joy, and the next Morning I went
+on Shore, and our Men brought our Ship safe into Harbour, lying within the
+Defence of our Platform, and within two Cables length of the Shore, good
+soft Ground, and in eleven Fathom Water, having been three Months and
+eighteen Days on the Voyage, and almost three Years absent from the Place.
+
+When I came to look about me here, I found our Men had encreas'd their
+Number, and that a Vessel which had been cruising, that is to say, Pirating
+on the Coast of _Arabia_, having seven _Dutchmen_, three _Portuguese_, and
+five _Englishmen_ on Board, had been cast away upon the Northern Shore of
+that Island, and had been taken up and reliev'd by our Men, and liv'd among
+them. They told us also of another Crew of _European_ Sailors, which lay,
+as we did, on the Main of the Island, and had lost their Ship and were, as
+the Islanders told them, above a hundred Men, but we heard nothing who they
+were.
+
+Some of our Men were dead in the mean Time, I think about three; and the
+first Thing I did was to call a Muster, and see how Things stood as to
+Money: I found the Men had been very true to one another; there lay all the
+Money, in Chests piled up as I left it, and every Man's Money having his
+Name upon it: Then acquainting the rest with the Promise I had made the Men
+that came with me, they all agreed to it; so the Money belonging to the
+dead Men, and to the rest of the forty Men who belong'd to the Sloop, was
+divided among the Men I brought with me, as well those who join'd at first,
+as those we took in at the _Cape de Verd_, and the _Canaries_: And the
+Bails of Goods which we found in the Ship, many of which were valuable for
+our own Use, we agreed to give them all to the fifteen Men mention'd above,
+who had been sav'd by our Men, and so to buy what we wanted of those Goods
+of them, which made their Hearts glad also.
+
+And now we began to consult what Course to take in the World: As for going
+to _England_, tho' our Men had a great Mind to be there, yet none of them
+knew how to get thither, notwithstanding I had brought them a Ship; but I,
+who had now made myself too publick to think any more of _England_, had
+given over all Views that Way, and began to cast about for farther
+Adventures; for tho', as I said, we were immensely rich before, yet I
+abhorr'd lying still, and burying my self alive, as I call'd it, among
+Savages and Barbarians; besides, some of our Men were young in the Trade,
+and had seen nothing; and they lay at me every Day not to lie still in a
+Part of the World where, as they said, such vast Riches might be gain'd;
+and that the _Dutchmen_ and _Englishmen_ who were cast away, as above, and
+who our Men call'd the _Comelings_, were continually buzzing in my Ears
+what infinite Wealth was to be got, if I would but make one voyage to the
+Coast of _Malabar_, _Coromandel_, and the Bay of _Bengale_; nay, the three
+_Portuguese_ Seamen offer'd themselves to attack and bring off one of their
+biggest Galleons, even out of the Road of _Goa_, on the _Malabar_ Coast,
+the Capital of the _Portuguese_ Factories in the _Indies_.
+
+In a Word, I was overcome with these new Proposals, and told the rest of my
+People, I was resolv'd to go to Sea again, and try my good Fortune; I was
+sorry I had not another Ship or two, but if ever it lay in my Power to
+master a good Ship, I would not fail to bring her to them.
+
+While I was thus fitting out upon this new Undertaking, and the Ship lay
+ready to Sail, and all the Men who were design'd for the Voyage, were on
+Board, being 85 in Number; among which were all the Men I brought with me,
+the 15 Comelings, and the rest made up out of our old Number; I say, when I
+was just upon the Point of setting Sail, we were all surpriz'd just in the
+Grey of the Morning to spy a Sail at Sea; we knew not what to make of her,
+but found she was an _European_ Ship; that she was not a very large Vessel,
+yet that she was a Ship of Force too: She seem'd to shorten Sail, as if she
+look'd out for some Harbour; at first Sight I thought she was _English_;
+immediately I resolv'd to slip Anchor and Cable and go out to Sea and speak
+with her, if I could, let her be what she would: As soon as I was got a
+little clear of the Land, I fir'd a Gun, and spread _English_ Colours: She
+immediately brought too, fir'd three Guns, and mann'd out her Boat with a
+Flag of Truce: I did the like, and the two Boats spoke to one another in
+about two Hours, when, to our infinite Joy, we found they were our Comrades
+who we left in the South Seas, and to whom we gave the Fregate at the Isle
+of _Juan Fernando_.
+
+Nothing of this Kind could have happen'd more to our mutual Satisfaction,
+for tho' we had long ago given them over either for Lost, or Lost to us;
+and we had no great Need of Company, yet we were overjoy'd at meeting, and
+so were they too.
+
+They were in some Distress for Provisions, and we had Plenty; so we brought
+their Ship in for them, gave them a present Supply, and when we had help'd
+them to moor and secure the Ship in the Harbour, we made them lock all
+their Hatches and Cabins up, and come on Shore, and there we feasted them
+five or six Days, for we had a Plenty of all Sorts of Provisions, not to be
+exhausted; and if we had wanted an hundred Head of fat Bullocks, we could
+have had them for asking for of the Natives, who treated us all along with
+all possible Courtesy and Freedom in their Way.
+
+The History of the Adventures and Success of these Men, from the Time we
+left them to the Time of their Arrival at our new Plantation, was our whole
+Entertainment for some Days. I cannot pretend to give the Particulars by my
+Memory; but as they came to us _Thieves_, they improv'd in their Calling to
+a great Degree, and, next to ourselves, had the greatest Success of any of
+the Buccaneers whose Story has ever been made publick.
+
+I shall not take upon me to vouch the whole Account of their Actions,
+neither will this Letter contain a full History of their Adventures; but if
+the Account which they gave us was true, you may take it thus:
+
+First, that having met with good Success after they left us, and having
+taken some extraordinary Purchase, as well in some Vessels they took at
+Sea, as in the Plunder of some Towns on the Shore near _Guyaquil_, as I
+have already told you, they got Information of a large Ship which was
+loading the King's Money at _Puna_, and had Orders to sail with it to
+_Lima_, in order to its being carry'd from thence to _Panama_ by the Fleet,
+under the Convoy of the _Flotilla_, or Squadron of Men of War, which the
+King's Governor at _Panama_ had sent to prevent their being insulted by the
+Pirates, which they had Intelligence were on the Coast; by which, we
+suppose, they meant us who were gone, for they could have no Notion of
+these Men then.
+
+Upon this Intelligence they cruis'd off and on upon the Coast for near a
+Month, keeping always to the Southward of _Lima_, because they would not
+fall in the Way of the said _Flotilla_, and so be overpower'd and miss of
+their Prize: At last they met with what they look'd for, that is to say,
+they met with the great Ship abovenam'd: But to their great Misfortune and
+Disappointment, (as they first thought it to be) she had with her a Man of
+War for her Convoy, and two other Merchant Ships in her Company.
+
+The Buccaneers had with them the Sloop which they first sent to us for our
+Intelligence, and which they made a little Fregate of, carrying eight Guns,
+and some Patareroes: They had not long Time to consult, but in short they
+resolv'd to double man the Sloop, and let her attack the great
+Merchant-Ship, while the Fregate, which was the whole of their Fleet, held
+the Man of War in Play, or at least kept him from assisting her.
+
+According to this Resolution, they put 50 Men on Board the Sloop, which
+was, in short, almost as many as would stand upon her Deck one by another;
+and with this Force they attack'd the great Merchant-Ship, which, besides
+its being well mann'd, had 16 good Guns, and about 30 Men on Board. While
+the Sloop thus began the unequal Fight, the Man of War bore down upon her
+to succour the Ship under her Convoy, but the Fregate thrusting in between,
+engag'd the Man of War, and began a very warm Fight with her, for the Man
+of War had both more Guns and more Men than the Fregate after she had
+parted with 50 Men on Board the Sloop: While the two Men of War, as we may
+now call them, were thus engag'd, the Sloop was in great Danger of being
+worsted by the Merchant-Ship, for the Force was too much for her, the Ship
+was great, and her Men fought a desperate and close Fight: Twice the
+Sloop-Men enter'd her, and were beaten off, and about nine of their Men
+kill'd, several other wounded, and an unlucky Shot taking the Sloop between
+Wind and Water, she was oblig'd to fall a-Stern, and heel her over to stop
+the Leek; during which the _Spaniards_ steer'd away to assist the Man of
+War, and pour'd her Broadside in upon the Fregate, which tho' but small,
+yet at a Time when she lay Yard-arm and Yard-arm close by the Side of the
+_Spanish_ Man of War, was a great Extremity; however, the Fregate return'd
+her Broadside, and therewith made her sheer off, and, which was worse, shot
+her Main-mast thro', tho' it did not come presently by the Board.
+
+During this Time, the Sloop having many Hands, had stopp'd the Leak, was
+brought to rights again, and came up again to the Engagement, and at the
+first Broadside had the good Luck to bring the Ship's Foremast by the
+Board, and thereby disabled her; but could not for all that lay her
+athwart, or carry her by Boarding, so that the Case began to be very
+doubtful; at which, the Captain of the Sloop, finding the Merchant Ship was
+disabled, and could not get away from them, resolv'd to leave her a while
+and assist the Fregate; which he did, and running a Longside our Fregate,
+he fairly laid the Man of War on Board just thwart his Hawser; and besides
+firing into her with his great Shot, he very fairly set her on Fire; and it
+was a great Chance but that they had been all three burnt together, but our
+Men helpt the _Spaniards_ themselves to put out the Fire, and after some
+Time master'd it: But the _Spaniards_ were in such a terrible Fright at the
+Apprehension of the Fire, that they made little Resistance afterwards, and
+in short, in about an Hour's Fight more, the _Spanish_ Man of War struck,
+and was taken; and after that the Merchant Ship also, with all the Wealth
+that was in her: And thus their Victory was as compleat as it was
+unexpected.
+
+The Captain of the _Spanish_ Man of War was kill'd in the Fight, and about
+36 of his Men, and most of the rest wounded, which it seems happen'd upon
+the Sloop's lying athwart her. This Man of War was a new Ship, and with
+some Alteration in her upper Work, made a very good Fregate for them, and
+they afterwards quitted their own Ship, and went all on Board the _Spanish_
+Ship, taking out the Main-mast of their own Ship, and making a new
+Fore-mast for the _Spanish_ Ship, because her Fore-mast was also weaken'd
+with some Shot in her; this, however, cost them a great deal of Labour and
+Difficulty, and also some Time, when they came to a certain Creek, where
+they all went on Shore, and refresh'd themselves a while.
+
+But if the taking the Man of War was an unexpected Victory to them, the
+Wealth of the Prize was much more so; for they found an amazing Treasure on
+Board her, both in Silver and Gold; and the Account they gave me was but
+imperfect, but I think they calculated the Pieces of Eight to be about 13
+Tun in Weight, besides that they had 5 small Chests of Gold, some Emeralds,
+and, in a Word, a prodigious Booty.
+
+They were not, however, so modest in their Prosperity as we were; for they
+never knew when to have done, but they must Cruise again to the Northward
+for more Booty, when to their great Surprize, they fell in with the
+Flotilla or Squadron of Men of War, which they had so studiously avoided
+before, and were so surrounded by them, that there was no Remedy but they
+must fight, and that in a Kind of Desperation, having no Prospect now but
+to sell their Lives as dear as they could.
+
+This unlucky Accident befel them before they had chang'd their ship, so
+that they had now the Sloop and both the Men of War in Company, but they
+were but thinly mann'd; and as for the Booty, the greater Part of it was on
+Board the Sloop, that is to say, all the Gold and Emeralds, and near half
+the Silver.
+
+When they saw the Necessity of fighting, they order'd the Sloop, if
+possible, to keep to Windward, that so she might as Night come on, make the
+best of her Way, and escape; but a _Spanish_ Fregate of 18 Guns tended her
+so close, and sail'd so well, that the Sloop could by no Means get away
+from the rest; so she made up close to the Buccaneers Fregate, and
+maintain'd a Fight as well as she could, till in the Dusk of the Evening
+the _Spaniards_ boarded and took her, but most of her Men gat away in her
+Boat, and some by swimming on Board the other Ship: They only left in her
+five wounded _Englishmen_, and six _Spanish_ Negroes. The five _English_
+the barbarous _Spaniards_ hang'd up immediately, wounded as they were.
+
+This was good Notice to the other Men to tell them what they were to
+expect, and made them fight like desperate Men till Night, and kill'd the
+_Spaniards_ a great many Men. It prov'd a very dark rainy Night, so that
+the _Spaniards_ were oblig'd by Necessity to give over the Fight till the
+next Day, endeavouring, in the mean time, to keep as near them as they
+could: But the Buccaneers concerting their Measures where they should meet,
+resolv'd to make Use of the Darkness of the Night to get off if they could;
+and the Wind springing up a fresh Gale at S. S. W. they chang'd their
+Course, and, with all the Sail they could make, stood away to the N. N. W.
+slanting it to Seawards as nigh the Wind as they could; and getting clear
+away from the _Spaniards_, who they never saw more, they made no Stay till
+they pass'd the Line, and arriv'd in about 22 Days Sail on the Coast of
+_California_, where they were quite out of the Way of all Enquiry and
+Search of the _Spaniards_.
+
+Here it was they chang'd their Ship, as I said, and quitting their own
+Vessel, they went all on Board the _Spanish_ Man of War, fitting up her
+Masts and Rigging, as I have said, and taking out all the Guns, Stores,
+_&c._ of their own Ship, so that they had now a stout Ship under them,
+carrying 40 Guns, (for so many they made her carry) and well furnish'd with
+all Things; and tho' they had lost so great a Part of their Booty, yet they
+had still left a vast Wealth, being six or seven Tun of Silver, besides
+what they had gotten before.
+
+With this Booty, and regretting heartily they had not practis'd the same
+Moderation before, they resolv'd now to be satisfy'd, and make the best of
+their Way to the Island of _Juan Fernando_; where keeping at a great
+Distance from the Shore, they safely arriv'd, in about two Months Voyage,
+having met with some contrary Winds by the Way.
+
+However, here they found the other Sloop which they had sent in with their
+first Booty, to wait for them: And here understanding that we were gone for
+St. _Julien_, they resolv'd, (since the Time was so long gone that they
+could not expect to find us again) that they would have t'other Touch with
+the _Spaniards_, cost what it would. And accordingly, having first bury'd
+the most Part of their Money in the Ground, on Shore in the Island, and
+having revictual'd their Ship in the best Manner they could in that barren
+Island, away they went to Sea.
+
+They beat about on the South of the Line all up the Coast of _Chili_, and
+Part of _Peru_, till they came to the Height of _Lima_ itself.
+
+They met with several Ships, and took several, but they were loaden chiefly
+with Lumber or Provisions, except that in one Vessel they took between 40
+and 50000 Pieces of Eight, and in another 75000. They soon inform'd
+themselves that the _Spanish_ Men of War were gone out of those Seas up to
+_Panama_, to boast of their good Fortune, and carry Home their Prize; and
+this made them the bolder. But tho' they spent near five Months in this
+second Cruise, they met with nothing considerable; the _Spaniards_ being
+every where alarm'd, and having Notice of them, so that nothing stirr'd
+Abroad.
+
+Tir'd then with their long Cruise, and out of Hope of more Booty, they
+began to look Homeward, and to say to one another that they had enough; so,
+in a Word, they came back to _Juan Fernando_, and there furnishing
+themselves as well as they could with Provisions, and not forgeting to take
+their Treasure on Board with them, they set forward again to the South; and
+after a very bad Voyage in rounding the _Terra del Fuego_, being driven to
+the Latitude of 65 Degrees, where they felt Extremity of Cold, they at
+length obtain'd a more favourable Wind, _viz._ at S. and S. S. E; with
+which, steering to the North, they came into a milder Sea and a milder
+Coast, and at length arriv'd at _Port St. Julien_, where, to their great
+Joy, they found the Post or Cross erected by us; and understanding that we
+were gone to _Madagascar_, and that we would be sure to remain there to
+hear from them, and withal that we had been gone there near two Year, they
+resolv'd to follow us.
+
+Here they staid, it seems, almost half a Year, partly fitting and altering
+their Ship, partly wearing out the Winter Season, and waiting for milder
+Weather; and having victuall'd their Ship in but a very ordinary Manner for
+so long a Run, _viz._ only with Seals Flesh and Penguins, and some Deer
+they kill'd in the Country, they at last launch'd out, and crossing the
+great _Atlantick Ocean_, they made the _Cape of Good Hope_ in about 76
+Days, having been put to very great Distresses in that Time for Want of
+Food, all their Seals Flesh and Penguins growing nauseous and stinking in
+little less than half the Time of their Voyage; so that they had nothing to
+subsist on for seven and twenty Days, but a little Quantity of dry'd
+Venison which they kill'd on Shore, about the Quantity of 3 Barrels of
+_English_ Beef, and some Bread; and when they came to the _Cape of Good
+Hope_, they gat some small Supply, but it being soon perceiv'd on Shore
+what they were, they were glad to be gone as soon as they had fill'd their
+Casks with Water, and gat but a very little Provisions; so they made to the
+Coast of _Natal_ on the South East Point of _Africa_, and there they gat
+more fresh Provisions, such as Veal, Milk, Goats-Flesh, some tolerable
+Butter, and very good Beef: And this held them out till they found us in
+the North Part of _Madagascar_, as above.
+
+We staid about a Fortnight in our Port, and in a sailing Posture, just as
+if we had been Wind-bound, meerly to congratulate and make merry with our
+new-come Friends, when I resolv'd to leave them there, and set Sail; which
+I did with a Westerly Wind, keeping away North till I came into the
+Latitude of seven Degrees North; so coasting along the _Arabian_ Coast E.
+N. E. towards the Gulph of Persia, in the Cruise I met with two _Persian_
+Barks loaden with Rice; one of which I mann'd and sent away to
+_Madagascar_, and the other I took for our own Ship's Use. This Bark came
+safe to my new Colony, and was a very agreeable Prize to them; I think
+verily almost as agreeable as if it had been loaded with Pieces of Eight,
+for they had been without Bread a great while; and this was a double
+Benefit to them, for they fitted up this Bark, which carry'd about 55 Tun,
+and went away to the Gulph of _Persia_ in her to buy Rice, and brought two
+or three _Freights_ of that which was very good.
+
+In this Time I pursu'd my Voyage, coasted the whole _Malabar_ Shore, and
+met with no Purchase but a great _Portugal East-India_ Ship, which I chac'd
+into _Goa_, where she got out of my Reach: I took several small Vessels and
+Barks, but little of Value in them, till I enter'd the great Bay of
+_Bengale_, when I began to look about me with more Expectation of Success,
+tho' without Prospect of what happen'd.
+
+I cruis'd here about two Months, finding nothing worth while; so I stood
+away to a Port on the North Point of the Isle of _Sumatra_, where I made no
+Stay; for here I gat News that two large Ships, belonging to the Great
+Mogul, were expected to cross the Bay from _Hugely_ in the _Ganges_ to the
+Country of the King of _Pegu_, being to carry the Grandaughter of the Great
+Mogul to _Pegu_, who was to be marry'd to the King of that Country, with
+all her Retinue, Jewels, and Wealth.
+
+This was a Booty worth watching for, tho' it had been some Months longer;
+so I refolv'd that we would go and Cruise off of Point _Negaris_, on the
+East Side of the Bay, near _Diamond Isle_; and here we ply'd off and on for
+three Weeks, and began to despair of Success; but the Knowledge of the
+Booty we expected spurr'd us on, and we waited with great Patience, for we
+knew the Prize would be immensely rich.
+
+At length we spy'd three Ships coming right up to us with the Wind; we
+could easily see they were not _Europeans_ by their Sails, and began to
+prepare ourselves for a Prize, not for a Fight; but were a little
+disappointed, when we found the first Ship full of Guns, and full of
+Soldiers, and in Condition, had she been manag'd by _English_ Sailors, to
+have fought two such Ships as ours were; however, we resolv'd to attack her
+if she had been full of Devils as she was full of Men.
+
+Accordingly, when we came near them, we fir'd a Gun with Shot as a
+Challenge; they fir'd again immediately three or four Guns; but fir'd them
+so confusedly that we could easily see they did not understand their
+Business; when we consider'd how to lay them on Board, and so to come
+thwart them, if we could; but falling, for want of Wind, open to them, we
+gave them a fair Broadside; we could easily see, by the Confusion that was
+on Board, that they were frighted out of their Wits; they fir'd here a Gun
+and there a Gun, and some on that Side that was from us, as well as those
+that were next to us. The next Thing we did was to lay them on Board, which
+we did presently, and then gave them a Volley of our Small-shot, which, as
+they stood so thick, kill'd a great many of them, and made all the rest run
+down under their Hatches, crying out like Creatures bewitch'd: In a Word,
+we presently took the Ship, and having secur'd her Men, we chac'd the other
+two: One was chiefly fill'd with Women, and the other with Lumber. Upon the
+Whole, as the Grandaughter of the Great Mogul was our Prize in the first
+Ship, so, in the second was her Women, or, in a Word, her Houshold, her
+Eunuchs, all the Necessaries of her Wardrobe, of her Stables, and of her
+Kitchin; and in the last, great Quantities of Houshold-stuff, and Things
+less costly, tho' not less useful.
+
+But the first was the main Prize. When my Men had enter'd and master'd the
+Ship, one of our Lieutenants call'd for me, and accordingly I jump'd on
+Board; he told me, he thought no Body but I ought to go into the great
+Cabin, or, at least, no Body should go there before me; for that the Lady
+herself and all her Attendance was there, and he fear'd the Men were so
+heated they would murder them all, or do worse.
+
+I immediately went to the great Cabin-door, taking the Lieutenant that
+call'd me, along with me, and caus'd the Cabin-door to be open'd: But such
+a Sight of Glory and Misery was never seen by Buccaneer before; the Queen
+(for such she was to have been) was all in Gold and Silver, but frighted;
+and crying, and at the Sight of me she appear'd trembling, and just as if
+she was going to die. She sate on the Side of a kind of a Bed like a Couch
+with no Canopy over it, or any Covering, only made to lie down upon; she
+was, in a Manner, cover'd with Diamonds, and I, like a true Pirate, soon
+let her see that I had more Mind to the Jewels than to the Lady.
+
+However, before I touch'd her, I order'd the Lieutenant to place a Guard at
+the Cabin-door; and fastening the Door, shut us both in, which he did: The
+Lady was young, and, I suppose, in their Country Esteem, very handsome, but
+she was not very much so in my Thoughts: At first, her Fright, and the
+Danger she thought she was in of being kill'd, taught her to do every Thing
+that she thought might interpose between her and Danger; and that was to
+take off her Jewels as fast as she could, and give them to me; and I,
+without any great Compliment, took them as fast as she gave them me, and
+put them into my Pocket, taking no great Notice of them, or of her, which
+frighted her worse than all the rest, and she said something which I could
+not understand; however, two of the other Ladies came, all crying, and
+kneel'd down to me with their Hands lifted up: What they meant I knew not
+at first, but by their Gestures and Pointings I found at last it was to beg
+the young Queen's Life, and that I would not kill her.
+
+I have heard that it has been reported in _England_ that I ravish'd this
+Lady, and then used her most barbarously; but they wrong me, for I never
+offer'd any Thing of that Kind to her, I assure you; nay, I was so far from
+being inclin'd to it, that I did not like her; and there was one of her
+Ladies who I found much more agreeable to me, and who I was afterwards
+something free with, but not even with her either by Force, or by Way of
+Ravishing.
+
+We did, indeed, ravish them of all their Wealth, for that was what we
+wanted, not the Women; nor was there any other Ravishing among those in the
+great Cabin, that I can assure you: As for the Ship where the Women of
+inferior Rank were, and who were in Number almost two hundred, I cannot
+answer for what might happen in the first Heat; but even there, after the
+first Heat of our Men was over, what was done, was done quietly, for I have
+heard some of the Men say, that there was not a Woman among them but what
+was lain with four or five Times over, that is to say, by so many several
+Men; for as the Women made no Opposition, so the Men even took those that
+were next them, without Ceremony, when and where Opportunity offer'd.
+
+When the three Ladies kneel'd down to me, and as soon as I understood what
+it was for, I let them know I would not hurt the Queen, nor let any one
+else hurt her, but that she must give me all her Jewels and Money: Upon
+this they acquainted her that I would save her Life; and no sooner had they
+assur'd her of that, but she got up, smiling, and went to a fine _Indian_
+Cabinet, and open'd a private Drawer, from whence she took another little
+Thing full of little square Drawers and Holes; this she brings to me in her
+Hand, and offer'd to kneel down to give it me. This innocent Usage began to
+rouse some Good-Nature in me, (tho' I never had much) and I would not let
+her kneel; but sitting down myself on the Side of her Couch or Bed, made a
+Motion to her to sit down too: But here she was frighted again, it seems,
+at what I had no Thought of; for sitting on her Bed, she thought I would
+pull her down to lie with her, and so did all her Women too; for they began
+to hold their Hands before their Faces, which, as I understood afterwards,
+was that they might not see me turn up their Queen: But as I did not offer
+any Thing of that Kind, only made her sit down by me, they began all to be
+easier after some Time, and she gave me the little Box or Casket, I know
+not what to call it, but it was full of invaluable Jewels. I have them
+still in my Keeping, and wish they were safe in _England_; for I doubt not
+but some of them are fit to be plac'd on the King's Crown.
+
+Being Master of this Treasure, I was very willing to be good-humour'd to
+the Persons; so I went out of the Cabin, and caus'd the Women to be left
+alone, causing the Guard to be kept still, that they might receive no more
+Injury than I would do them myself.
+
+After I had been out of the Cabin some Time, a Slave of the Womens came to
+me, and made Sign to me that the Queen would speak with me again. I made
+Signs back, that I would come and dine with her Majesty: And accordingly I
+order'd that her Servants should prepare her Dinner, and carry it in, and
+then call me. They provided her Repast after the usual Manner, and when she
+saw it brought in, she appear'd pleas'd, and more, when she saw me come in
+after it; for she was exceedingly pleas'd that I had caus'd a Guard to keep
+the rest of my Men from her; and she had, it seems, been told how rude they
+had been to some of the Women that belong'd to her.
+
+When I came in, she rose up, and paid me such Respect as I did not well
+know how to receive, and not in the least how to return. If she had
+understood _English_, I could have said plainly, and in good rough Words,
+Madam, be easy, we are rude rough-hewn Fellows, but none of our Men should
+hurt you, or touch you; I will be your Guard and Protection; we are for
+Money, indeed and we shall take what you have, but we will do you no other
+Harm. But as I could not talk thus to her, I scarce knew what to say; but I
+sate down, and made Signs to have her sit down and eat, which she did, but
+with so much Ceremony, that I did not know well what to do with it.
+
+After we had eaten, she rose up again, and drinking some Water out of a
+_China_ Cup, sate her down on the Side of the Couch, as before: When she
+saw I had done eating, she went then to another Cabinet, and pulling out a
+Drawer, she brought it to me; it was full of small Pieces of Gold Coin of
+_Pegu_, about as big as an _English_ Half Guinea, and I think there were
+three thousand of them. She open'd several other Drawers, and shew'd me the
+Wealth that was in them and then gave me the Key of the Whole.
+
+We had revell'd thus all Day, and Part of the next Day, in a bottomless Sea
+of Riches, when my Lieutenant began to tell me, we must consider what to do
+with our Prisoners, and the Ships, for that there was no subsisting in that
+Manner; besides, he hinted privately, that the Men would be ruin'd, by
+lying with the Women in the other Ship, where all Sorts of Liberty was both
+given and taken: Upon this we call'd a short Council, and concluded to
+carry the great Ship away with us, but to put all the Prisoners, Queen,
+Ladies, and all the rest, into the lesser Vessels, and let them go: And so
+far was I from ravishing this Lady, as I hear is reported of me, that tho'
+I might rifle her of every Thing else, yet I assure you I let her go
+untouch'd for me, or, as I am satisfy'd, for any one, of my Men; nay, when
+we dismiss'd them, we gave her Leave to take a great many Things of Value
+with her, which she would have been plunder'd of, if I had not been so
+careful of her.
+
+We had now Wealth enough, not only to make us rich, but almost to have made
+a Nation rich; and to tell you the Truth, considering the costly Things we
+took here, which we did not know the Value of, and besides Gold, and
+Silver, and Jewels, I say, we never knew how rich we were; besides which,
+we had a great Quantity of Bales of Goods, as well Calicoes as wrought
+Silks; which being for Sale, were, perhaps, as a Cargo of Goods to answer
+the Bills which might be drawn upon them for the Account of the Bride's
+Portion; all which fell into our Hands, with a great Sum in Silver Coin,
+too big to talk of among _Englishmen_, especially while I am living, for
+Reasons which I may give you hereafter.
+
+I had nothing to do now but to think of coming back to _Madagascar_, so we
+made the best of our Way; only that, to make us quite distracted without
+other Joy, we took in our Way a small Bark loaden with Arack and Rice,
+which was good Sawce to our other Purchace; for if the Women made our Men
+drunk before, this _Arack_ made them quite mad; and they had so little
+Government of themselves with it, that I think it might be said, the whole
+Ship's Crew was drunk for above a Fortnight together, till six or seven of
+them kill'd themselves; two fell overboard and were drown'd, and several
+more fell into raging Fevers, and it was a Wonder, in the whole, they were
+not all kill'd with it.
+
+But, to make short of the Story as we did of the Voyage, we had a very
+pleasant Voyage, except those Disasters, and we came safe back to our
+Comrades at _Madagascar_, having been absent in all about seven Months.
+
+We found them in very good Health, and longing to hear from us; and we
+were, you may be assur'd, welcome to them; for now we had amass'd such a
+Treasure as no Society of Men ever possess'd in this World before us,
+neither could we ever bring it to an Estimation, for we could not bring
+particular Things to a just Valuation.
+
+We liv'd now and enjoy'd ourselves in full Security; for tho' some of the
+_European_ Nations, and perhaps all of them had heard of us; yet they heard
+such formidable Things of us, such terrible Stories of our great Strength,
+as well as of our great Wealth, that they had no Thought of undertaking any
+Thing against us; for, as I have understood, they were told at _London_,
+that we were no less than 5000 Men; that we had built a regular Fortress
+for our Defence by Land, and that we had 20 Sail of Ships; and I have been
+told that in _France_ they have heard the same Thing: But nothing of all
+this was ever true, any more than it was true, that we offer'd ten Millions
+to the Government of _England_ for our Pardon.
+
+It is true, that had the Queen sent any Intimation to us of a Pardon, and
+that we should have been receiv'd to Grace at Home, we should all have very
+willingly embrac'd it; for we had Money enough to have encourag'd us all to
+live honest; and if we had been ask'd for a Million of Pieces of Eight, or
+a Million of Pounds Sterling, to have purchas'd our Pardon, we should have
+been very ready to have comply'd with it; for we really knew not what to do
+with ourselves, or with our Wealth; and the only Thing we had now before
+us, was to consider what Method to take for getting Home, if possible, to
+our own Country with our Wealth, or at least with such Part of it as would
+secure us easy and comfortable Lives; and, for my own Part, I resolv'd, if
+I could, to make full Satisfaction to all the Persons who I had wrong'd in
+_England_, I mean by that, such People as I had injur'd by running away
+with the Ship; as well the Owners, and the Master or Captain, who I set
+a-shore in _Spain_, as the Merchant whose Goods I had taken with the Ship;
+and I was daily forming Schemes in my Thoughts how to bring this to pass:
+But we all concluded that it was impossible for us to accomplish our
+Desires as to that Part, seeing the Fact of our Piracy was now so publick
+all over the World, that there was not any Nation in the World that would
+receive us, or any of us; but would immediately seize on our Wealth, and
+execute us for Pirates and Robbers of all Nations.
+
+This was confirm'd to us after some Time, with all the Particulars, as it
+is now understood in _Europe_; for as the Fame of our Wealth and Power was
+such, that it made all the World afraid of us, so it brought some of the
+like Sort with our selves to join with us from all Parts of the World; and
+particularly, we had a Bark, and 60 Men of all Nations, from _Martinico_,
+who had been cruising in the Gulph of _Florida_, came over to us, to try if
+they could mend their Fortunes; and these went afterwards to the Gulph of
+_Persia_, where they took some Prizes, and return'd to us again. We had
+after this three Pirate Ships came to us, most _English_, who had done some
+Exploits on the Coast of _Guinea_, had made several good Prizes, and were
+all tolerably rich.
+
+As these People came and shelter'd with us, so they came and went as they
+would, and sometimes some of our Men went with them, sometimes theirs staid
+with us: But by that Coming and Going our Men found Ways and Means to
+convey themselves away, some one Way, some another. For I should have told
+you at first, that after we had such Intelligence from _England_, _viz._
+that they knew of all our successful Enterprizes, and that there was no
+Hopes of our returning, especially of mine and some other Men who were
+known: I say, after this we call'd a general Council to consider what to
+do; and there, one and all, we concluded that we liv'd very happy where we
+were; that if any of us had a Mind to venture to get away to any Part of
+the World, none should hinder them, but that else we would continue where
+we were; and that the first Opportunity we had we would cruise upon the
+_English_ _East India_ Ships, and do them what Spoil we could, fancying
+that some Time or other they would proclaim a Pardon to us, if we would
+come in; and if they did, then we would accept of it.
+
+Under these Circumstances we remain'd here, off and on, first and last,
+above three Year more; during which Time our Number encreas'd so,
+especially at first, that we were once eight hundred Men, stout brave
+Fellows, and as good Sailors as any in the World. Our Number decreas'd
+afterwards upon several Occasions; such as the going Abroad to Cruise,
+wandering to the South Part of the Island, (as above) getting on Board
+_European_ Ships, and the like.
+
+After I perceiv'd that a great many of our Men were gone off, and had
+carry'd their Wealth with them, I began to cast about in my own Thoughts
+how I should make my Way Home also: Innumerable Difficulties presented to
+my View; when at last, an Account of some of our Mens Escape into _Persia_
+encourag'd me. The Story was this: One of the small Barks we had taken,
+went to _Guzaratte_ to get Rice, and having secur'd a Cargo, but not loaded
+it, ten of our Men resolv'd to attempt their Escape; and accordingly they
+drest themselves like Merchant-Strangers, and bought several Sorts of Goods
+there, such as an _Englishman_, who they found there, assisted them to buy;
+and with their Bales, (but in them pack'd up all the rest of their Money)
+they went up to _Bassora_ in the Gulph of _Persia_, and so travell'd as
+Merchants with the Caravan to _Aleppo_, and we never heard any more of
+them, but that they went clean off with all their Cargo.
+
+This fill'd my Head with Schemes for my own Deliverance; but however, it
+was a Year more before I attempted any Thing, and not till I found that
+many of our Men shifted off, some and some, nor did any of them miscarry;
+some went one Way, some another; some lost their Money, and some sav'd it;
+nay, some carry'd it away with them, and some left it behind them: As for
+me, I discover'd my Intentions to no Body, but made them all believe I
+would stay here till some of them should come and fetch me off, and
+pretended to make every Man that went off promise to come for me, if it
+ever was in his Power, and gave every one of them Signals to make for me,
+when they came back, upon which I would certainly come off to them. At the
+same Time nothing was more certain, than that I intended from the Beginning
+to get away from the Island, as soon as I could any Way make my Way with
+Safety to any Part of the World.
+
+It was still above two Years after this that I remain'd in the Island; nor
+could I, in all that Time, find any probable Means for removing my self
+with Safety.
+
+One of the Ways I thought to have made my Escape was this: I went to Sea in
+a Long-boat a fishing, (as we often did) and having a Sail to the Boat, we
+were out two or three Days together; at length it came into my Thoughts
+that we might Cruise about the Island in this Long-boat, a great Way, and
+perhaps some Adventure might happen to us which we might make something of;
+so I told them I had a Mind to make a Voyage with the Long-boat to see what
+would happen.
+
+To this Purpose we built upon her, made a State-Room in the Middle, and
+clapt four Patareroes upon her Gunnel, and away we went, being sixteen
+stout Fellows in the Boat, not reckoning my self: Thus we ran away, as it
+were, from the rest of our Crew, tho' not a Man of us knew our own Minds as
+to whither we were going, or upon what Design. In this Frolick we ran South
+quite away to the Bay of St. _Angustine_'s, in the Latitude of 24 Degrees,
+where the Ships from _Europe_ often put in for Water and Provisions.
+
+Here we put in, not knowing well what to do next; I thought myself
+disappointed very much that we saw no _European_ Ship here, tho' afterwards
+I saw my Mistake, and found that it was better for us that we were in that
+Port first: We went boldly on Shore; for as to the Natives, we understood
+how to manage them well enough, knew all their Customs, and the Manner of
+their treating with Strangers as to Peace or War; their Temper, and how to
+oblige them, or behave if they were disoblig'd; so we went, I say, boldly
+on Shore, and there we began to chaffer with them for some Provisions, such
+as we wanted.
+
+We had not been here above two or three Days, but that, early in the
+Morning, the Weather thick and haizy, we heard several Guns fire at Sea; we
+were not at a Loss to know what they meant, and that it was certainly some
+_European_ Ships coming in, and who gave the Signal to one another that
+they had made the Land, which they could easily see from the Sea, tho' we,
+who were also within the Bay, could not see them from the Shore: However,
+in a few Hours, the Weather clearing up, wet saw plainly five large Ships,
+three with _English_ Colours, and two with _Dutch_, standing into the Bay,
+and in about four or five Hours more they came to an Anchor.
+
+A little while after they were come to an Anchor, their Boats began to come
+on Shore to the usual Watering-place to fill their Casks; and while they
+were doing that, the rest of the Men look'd about them a little, as usual,
+tho' at first they did not stir very far from their Boats.
+
+I had now a nice Game to play, as any Man in the World ever had: It was
+absolutely necessary for us to speak with these Men; and yet how to speak
+with them, and not have them speak with us in a Manner that we should not
+like, that was the main Point: It was with a great deal of Impatience that
+we lay still one whole Day, and saw their Boats come on Shore, and go on
+Board again, and we were so irresolute all the while, that we knew not what
+to do; at last I told my Men, it was absolutely necessary we should speak
+with them, and seeing we could not agree upon the Method how to do it
+friendly and fairly, I was resolv'd to do it by Force, and that if they
+would take my Advice, we would place ourselves in Ambuscade upon the Land
+somewhere, that we might see them when they were on Shore, and the first
+Man that straggled from the rest we would clap in upon and seize him, and
+three or four of them if we could. As for our Boat, we had secur'd it in a
+Creek three or four Miles up the Country, where it was secure enough out of
+their Reach or Knowledge.
+
+With this Resolution we plac'd ourselves in two Gangs; eleven of us in one
+Place, and only three of us in another, and very close we lay: The Place we
+chose for our Ambuscade was on the Side of a rising Ground almost a Mile
+from the Watering-place, but where we could see them all come towards the
+Shore, and see them if they did but set their Foot on Shore.
+
+As we understood afterwards, they had the Knowledge of our being upon the
+Island, but knew not in what Part of it, and were therefore very cautious
+and wary how they went on Shore, and came all very well arm'd. This gave us
+a new Difficulty, for in the very first Excursion that any of them made
+from the Watering-place, there was not less than twenty of them, all well
+arm'd, and they pass'd by in our Sight; but as we were out of their Sight
+we were all very well pleas'd with seeing them go by, and being not oblig'd
+to meddle with them, or show our selves.
+
+But we had not long lain in this Circumstance, but, by what Occasion we
+knew not, five of the Gentlemen Tarrs were pleas'd to be willing to go no
+farther with their Companions; and thinking all safe behind them, because
+they had found no Disturbance in their going out, came back the same Way,
+straggling without any Guard or Regard.
+
+I thought now was our Time to show our selves; so taking them as they came
+by the Place where we lay in Ambuscade, we plac'd ourselves just in their
+Way, and as they were entring a little Thicket of Trees, we appear'd; and
+calling to them in _English_, told them they were our Prisoners; that if
+they yielded, we would use them very well, but if they offer'd to resist,
+they should have no Quarter: One of them looking behind, as if he would
+show us a Pair of Heels, I call'd to him, and told him, if he attempted to
+run for it, he was a dead Man, unless he could out-run a Musquet-Bullet;
+and that we would soon let him see we had more Men in our Company; and so
+giving the Signal appointed, our three Men, who lay at a Distance, shew'd
+themselves in the Rear.
+
+When they saw this, one of them, who appear'd as their Leader, but was only
+the Purser's Clerk, ask'd, Who we were they must yield to? And if we were
+Christians? I told them, jestingly, We were good honest Christian Pirates,
+and belong'd to Captain _Avery_, (not at all letting them know that I was
+_Avery_ himself) and if they yielded it was enough; that we assur'd them
+they should have fair Quarter and good Usage upon our Honour; but that they
+must resolve immediately, or else they would be surrounded with 500 Men,
+and we could not answer for what they might do to them.
+
+They yielded presently upon this News, and deliver'd their Arms; and we
+carry'd them away to our Tent, which we had built near the Place where our
+Boat lay. Here I enter'd into a particular serious Discourse with them
+about Captain _Avery_, for 'twas this I wanted, upon several Accounts:
+First, I wanted to enquire what News they had had of us in _Europe_? and
+then to give them Ideas of our Numbers and Power as romantick as I could.
+
+They told us, that they had heard of the great Booty Captain _Avery_ had
+taken in the Bay of _Bengale_; and among the rest, a bloody Story was
+related of _Avery_ himself, _viz._ That he ravish'd the Great Mogul's
+Daughter, who was going to be marry'd to the Prince of _Pegu_; that we
+ravish'd and forc'd all the Ladies attending her Train, and then threw them
+into the Sea, or cut their Throats; and that we had gotten a Booty of ten
+Millions in Gold and Silver, besides an inestimable Treasure of Jewels,
+Diamonds, Pearls, _&c._ but that we had committed most inhuman Barbarities
+on the innocent People that fell into our Hands. They then told us, but in
+a broken imperfect Account, how the Great Mogul had resented it; and that
+he had raised a great Army against the _English_ Factories, resolving to
+root them out of his Dominions; but that the Company had appeas'd him by
+Presents, and by assuring him that the Men who did it, were Rebels to the
+_English_ Government, and that the Queen of _England_ would hang them all
+when ever they could be taken. I smil'd at that, and told them, Captain
+_Avery_ would give them Leave to hang him, and all his Men, when they could
+take them; but that I could assure him they were too strong to be taken;
+that if the Government of _England_ went about to provoke them, Captain
+_Avery_ would soon make those Seas too hot for the _English_, and they
+might even give over their _East-India_ Trade, for they little thought
+Circumstances Captain _Avery_ was in.
+
+This I did, as well to know what Notions you had of us in _England_, as to
+give a formidable Account of us, and of our Circumstances to _England_,
+which I knew might be of Use to us several Ways hereafter. Then I made him
+tell his Part, which he did freely enough; he told us, that indeed they had
+receiv'd an Account in _England_ that we were exceeding strong; that we had
+several Gangs of Pirates from the _Spanish West-Indies_, that had taken
+great Booties there, and were gone all to _Madagascar_ to join Captain
+_Avery_; that he had taken three great _East-India_ Ships, one _Dutch_, and
+two _Portuguese_, which they had converted into Men of War; that he had
+6000 Men under his Command; that he had twelve Ships, whereof three carry'd
+60 Guns a-piece, and six more of them, from 40 to 50 Guns; that they had
+built a large Fort to secure their Habitations; and that they had two large
+Towns, one on one Side, one on the other of a River, cover'd by the said
+Fort, and two great Platforms or Batteries of Guns to defend the Entrance
+where their Ships rode; that they had an immense invaluable Treasure; and
+that it was said, Captain _Avery_ was resolv'd to People the whole Island
+of _Madagascar_ with _Europeans_, and to get Women from _Jamaica_ and the
+_Leeward Islands_; and that it was not doubted but he would subdue, and
+make himself King of that Country, if he was let alone a little longer.
+
+I had enjoin'd my Men, in the first Place, not to let him know that I was
+_Avery_, but that I was one of his Captains; and in the next Place, not to
+say a Word but just _Ay_, and _No_, as Things occurr'd, and leave the rest
+to me. I heard him patiently out in all the Particulars above, and when he
+had done, I told him it was true, Captain _Avery_ was in the Island of
+_Madagascar_, and that several other Societies of Buccaneers and
+Freebooters were join'd him from the _Spanish West-Indies_; for, said I,
+the Plenty and Ease of our living here is such, and we are so safe from all
+the World, that we do not doubt but we shall be twenty thousand Men in a
+very little Time, when two Ships which we have sent to the _West-Indies_
+shall come back, and shall have told the Buccaneers at the Bay of
+_Campeachy_, how we live here.
+
+But, said I, you in _England_ greatly wrong Captain _Avery_, our General,
+(so I call'd myself, to advance our Credit) for I can assure you, that
+except plundering the Ship, and taking that immense Booty which he got in
+the great Ship where the Great Mogul's Daughter was, there was not the
+least Injury done to the Lady, no Ravishing or Violence to her, or any of
+her Attendance; and this, said I, you may take of my certain Knowledge;
+for, said I, I was on Board the Ship with our General all the while: And if
+any of the Princess's Women were lain with, said I, on Board the other
+Ship, as I believe most of them were, yet it was done with their own
+Consent and good Will, and no otherwise; and they were all dismiss'd
+afterwards, without so much as being put in Fear or Apprehensions of Life
+or Honour.
+
+This I assur'd him, (as indeed it was just) and told him, I hop'd, if ever
+he came safe to _England_, he would do Captain _Avery_, and all of us,
+Justice in that particular Case.
+
+As to our being well fortify'd on the Island, and our Numbers, I assur'd
+them all they were far from thinking too much of us; that we had a very
+good Fleet, and a very good Harbour for them; that we were not afraid of
+any Force from _Europe_, either by Land or Water; that it was, indeed, in
+vain to pretend to attack us by Force; that the only Way for the Government
+of _England_ to bring us back to our Duty, would be to send a Proclamation
+from _England_ with the Queen's Pardon for our General and all his People,
+if they came in by a certain Time: And, added I, we know you want Money in
+_England_, I dare say, said I, our General, Captain _Avery_, and his
+particular Gang, who have the main Riches, would not grudge to advance five
+or six Millions of Ducats to the Government, to give them Leave to return
+in Peace to _England_, and sit down quietly with the rest.
+
+This Discourse, I suppose, was the Ground of the Rumour you have had in
+_England_, That _Avery_ had offer'd to come in and submit, and would give
+six Millions for his Pardon: For as these Men were soon after this
+dismiss'd, and went back to _England_, there is no Doubt but they gave a
+particular Account of the Conference they had with me, who they call'd one
+of Captain _Avery_'s Captains.
+
+We kept these five Men six or seven Days, and we pretended to show them the
+Country from some of the Hills, calling it all our own, and pointing every
+Way how many Miles we extended ourselves; we made them believe also that
+all the rest of the Country was at our Disposal, that the whole _Island_
+was at our Beck; we told them we had Treasure enough to enrich the whole
+Kingdom of _England_; that our General had several Millions in Diamonds,
+and we had many Tuns of Silver and Gold; that we had fifty large Barns full
+of all Sorts of Goods, as well _European_ as _Indian_; and that it would be
+truly the best Way for _England_ to do as they said, namely, to invite us
+all Home by a Proclamation with a Pardon: And if they would do this, said
+I, they can ask no reasonable Sum, but our General might advance it;
+besides, getting Home such a Body of stout able Seamen as we were, such a
+Number of Ships, and such a Quantity of rich Goods.
+
+We had several long Discourses with them upon these Heads, and our frequent
+offering this Part to them with a Kind of feeling Warmth, (for it was what
+we all desir'd) has caus'd, I doubt not, the Rumour of such great Offers
+made by us, and of a Letter sent by me to the Queen, to beg her Majesty's
+Pardon for myself and my Company, and offering ten Millions of Money
+Advance to the Queen for the publick Service: All which is a meer Fiction
+of the Brain of those which have publish'd it; neither were we in any
+Condition to make such an Offer; neither did I, or any of my Crew or
+Company, ever write a Letter or Petition to the Queen, or to any one in the
+Government, or make any Application in the Case other than as above, which
+was only Matter of Conversation or private Discourse.
+
+Nor were we so strong in Men or Ships, or any Thing like it. You have heard
+of the Number of Ships which we had now with us, which amounted to two
+Ships and a Sloop, and no more, except the Prize in which we took the
+Mogul's Daughter; (which Ship we call'd, _The Great Mogul_) but she was fit
+for nothing, for she would neither sail or steer worth a Farthing, and
+indeed was fit for no Use but a Hulk, or a Guard-Ship.
+
+As to Numbers of Men, they bely'd us strangely, and particularly, they
+seem'd only to mistake Thousands for Hundreds: For whereas they told us,
+that you in _England_ had a Report of our being six thousand Men, I must
+acknowledge that I think we were never, when we were at the most, above six
+hundred; and at the Time when I quitted the Country, I left about one
+hundered and eight Men there, and no more, and I am assur'd, all the Number
+that now remains there, is not above twenty two Men, no, not in the whole
+Island.
+
+Well, we thought, however, that it was no Business of ours at that Time to
+undeceive them in their high Opinion of our great Strength, so we took Care
+to magnify ourselves, and the Strength of our General, (meaning myself)
+that they might carry the Story to _England_, depending upon it, _That a
+Tale loses nothing in the carrying._ When they told us of our Fort, and the
+Batteries at the Mouth of the River where our Ships lie, we insinuated,
+that it was a Place where we did not fear all the Fleets in the World
+attacking us; and when they told us of the Number of Men, we strove to make
+them believe that they were much many more.
+
+At length, the poor Men began to be tir'd of us, and indeed we began to be
+tir'd of them; for we began to be afraid very much that they would prye a
+little Way into our Affairs, and that a little too narrowly that Way; so as
+they began to sollicit their Deliverance, we began to listen to their
+Importunities: In a Word, we agreed to dismiss them; and accordingly we
+gave them Leave to go away to the Watering-place, as if they had made their
+Escape from us; which they did, carrying away their Heads full of all those
+unlikely projected Things which you have heard above.
+
+In all this, however, I had not the good Luck to advance one Step towards
+my own Escape; and here is one Thing remarkable, _viz._ That the great Mass
+of Wealth I had gotten together, was so far from forwarding my Deliverance,
+that it really was the only Thing that hinder'd it most effectually; and I
+was so sensible of it, that I resolv'd once to be gone, and leave all my
+Wealth behind me, except some Jewels, as several of our Men had done
+already: For many of them were so impatient of staying here, that they
+found Means to get away, some and some, with no more Money than they could
+carry about them; particularly, thirteen of our Men made themselves a Kind
+of Shaloup with a Mast and Sail, and went for the Red Sea, having two
+Patareroes for her Defence, and every Man a thousand Pieces of Eight, and
+no more, except that one _Macmow_ an _Irishman_, who was their Captain, had
+five Rubies and a Diamond, which he got among the Plunder of the Mogul's
+Ship.
+
+These Men, as I heard, gat safe to _Mocca_ in the _Arabian_ Gulph, where
+they fetch the Coffee, and their Captain manag'd for them all so well, that
+of Pirates he made them Merchants, laid out all the Stock in Coffee, and
+got a Vessel to carry it up the Red Sea to _Sues_, where they sold it to
+the Factors for the _European_ Merchants, and came all safe to
+_Alexandria_, where they parted the Money again; and then every one
+separated as they thought fit, and went their own Way.
+
+We heard of this by mere Accident afterwards, and I confess I envy'd their
+Success; and tho' it was a great while after this that I took a like Run,
+yet you may be sure I form'd a Resolution from that Time to do the like;
+and most of the Time that I stay'd after this, was employ'd in picking out
+a suitable Gang that I might depend upon, as well to trust with the Secret
+of my going away, as to take with me; and on whom I might depend, and they
+on me, for keeping one another's Council when we should come into _Europe_.
+
+It was in Pursuit of this Resolution that I went this little Voyage to the
+South of the Island, and the Gang I took with me prov'd very trusty, but we
+found no Opportunity then for our Escape: Two of the Men that we took
+Prisoners would fain have gone with us, but we resolv'd to trust none of
+them with the real and true Discovery of our Circumstances; and as we had
+made them believe mighty Things of ourselves, and of the Posture of our
+Settlement, that we had 5000 Men, 12 Men of War, and the like, we were
+resolv'd they should carry the Delusion away with them, and that no Body
+should undeceive them; because, tho' we had not such an immense Wealth as
+was reported, and so as to be able to offer ten Millions for our Pardon,
+yet we had a very great Treasure; and, being nothing near so strong as they
+had imagin'd, we might have been made a Prey, with all our Riches, to any
+Set of Adventurers who might undertake to attempt us, by Consent of the
+Government of _England_, and make the Expedition, _No Purchase no Pay._
+
+For this Reason we civily declin'd them, told them we had Wealth enough,
+and therefore did not now Cruise Abroad as we used to do, unless we should
+hear of another Wedding of a King's Daughter; or unless some rich Fleet, or
+some Heathen Kingdom was to be attempted; and that therefore a new Comer,
+or any Body of new Comers, could do themselves no good by coming over to
+us: If any Gang of Pirates or Buccaneers would go upon their Adventures,
+and when they had made themselves rich, would come and settle with us, we
+would take them into our Protection, and give them Land to build Towns and
+Habitations for themselves, and so in Time we might become a great Nation,
+and inhabit the whole Island: I told them, the _Romans_ themselves were, at
+first, no better than such a Gang of Rovers as we were; and who knew but
+our General, Captain _Avery_, might lay the Foundation of as great an
+Empire as they.
+
+These big Words amaz'd the Fellows, and answer'd my End to a Tittle; for
+they told such Rhodomantading Stories of us, when they came back to their
+Ships, and from them it spread so universally all over the _East-Indies_,
+(for they were Outward-bound) that none of the _English_ or _Dutch_ Ships
+would come near _Madagascar_ again, if they could help it, for a great
+while, for Fear of us; and we, who were soon after this dwindled away to
+less than 100 Men, were very glad to have them think us too strong to
+meddle with, or so strong that no Body durst come near us.
+
+After these Men were gone, we rov'd about to the East Side of the Island,
+and in a Word, knew not what to do, or what Course to take, for we durst
+not put out to Sea in such a Bauble of a Boat as we had under us; but tir'd
+at last, we came back to the South Point of the Island again; in our
+rounding the Island we saw a great _English_-built Ship at Sea, but at too
+far Distance to speak with her; and if it had not, we knew not what to have
+said to her, for we were not strong enough to attack her: We judg'd by her
+Course, she stood away from the Isle of St. _Maurice_ or _Mauritius_, for
+the _Cape of Good Hope_, and must, as we suppos'd, come from the _Malabar_
+Coast, bound Home for _England_; so we let her go.
+
+We are now return'd back to our Settlement on the North Part of the Island;
+and I have singl'd out about 12 or 13 bold brave Fellows, with whom I am
+resolv'd to venture to the Gulph of _Persia_; twenty more of our Men have
+agreed to carry us thither as Passengers in the Sloop, and try their own
+Fortunes afterwards, for they allow we are enough to go together. We
+resolve, when we come to _Bassaro_, to separate into three Companies, as if
+we did not know one another; to dress ourselves as Merchants, for now we
+look like Hell-hounds and Vagabonds; but when we are well dress'd, we
+expect to look as other Men do. If I come thither, I purpose, with two
+more, to give my Companions the Slip, and travel as _Armenians_ thro'
+_Persia_ to the _Caspian_ Sea, so to _Constantinople_; and I doubt not we
+shall, one Way or other, find our Way, with our Merchandize and Money, to
+come into _France_, if not quite Home to my own Country. Assure yourself,
+when I arrive in any Part of Christendom, I will give you a farther Account
+of my Adventures.
+
+      _Your Friend and Servant,_
+
+
+         AVERY.
+
+
+   _The End of the First Letter._
+
+
+
+
+A Second LETTER
+
+
+   _SIR,_
+
+
+I WROTE my last Letter to you from _Madagascar_, where I had
+continu'd so long till my People began to drop from me, some and some, and,
+indeed, I had, at last, but few left; so that I began to apprehend they
+would give an Account in _Europe_, how weak I was, and how easy it was to
+attack me; nay, and to make their Peace, might some of them, at least,
+offer their Service to be Pilots to my Port, and might guide the Fleets or
+Ships that should attempt me.
+
+With these Apprehensions, I not only was uneasy myself, but made all my Men
+uneasy too; for, as I was resolv'd to attempt my own Escape, I did not care
+how many of my Men went before me: But this you must take with you by the
+Bye, that I never let them imagine that I intended to stir from the Spot
+myself; I mean, after my Return from the Ramble that I had taken round the
+Island, of which I have given you an Account; but, that I resolv'd to take
+up my Rest in _Madagascar_ as long as I liv'd; indeed, before, I said
+otherwise, as I wrote you before, and made them all promise to fetch me
+away, but now I gave it out that I was resolv'd to live and die here; and
+therefore, a little before I resolv'd upon going, I set to Work to build me
+a new House, and to plant me a pretty Garden at a Distance from our Fort;
+only I had a select Company, to whom I communicated every Thing, and who
+resolv'd that, at last, we would go altogether, but that we would do it our
+own Way.
+
+When I had finish'd my new House, (and a mighty Palace you would say it
+was, if you had been to see it) I remov'd to it, with eight of the Gang
+that were to be my Fellow adventurers; and to this Place we carry'd all our
+private Wealth, that is to say, Jewels and Gold; as to our Share of Silver,
+as it was too heavy to remove, and must be done in Publick, I was oblig'd
+to leave it behind; but we had a Stratagem for that too, and it was thus:
+
+We had a Sloop, as you have heard, and she lay in our Harbour, 'tis true;
+but she lay ready to sail upon any Occasion; and the Men, who were of our
+Confederacy, who were not with me at my Country-house, were twelve in
+Number: These Men made a Proposal, that they would take the Sloop, and go
+away to the Coast of _Malabar_, or where else they could speed to their
+Mind, and buy a Fraight of Rice for the publick Account: In a free State as
+we were, every Body was free to go wherever they would, so that no Body
+oppos'd them; the only Dispute at any Time, was about taking the Vessel we
+had to go in: However, as these Men seem'd only to act upon the publick
+Account, and to go to buy Provisions, no Body offer'd to deny them the
+Sloop, so they prepar'd for their Voyage: Just as they were ready to go,
+one of them starts it to the rest, that it was very hazardous and difficult
+to run such a Length every now and then to get a little Rice, and if they
+would go, why should they not bring a good Quantity? This was soon
+resolv'd; so they agreed, they should take Money with them to buy a good
+Ship wherever they could find her, and then to buy a Loading of Rice to
+fill her up, and so come away with her.
+
+When this was agreed, they resolv'd to take no Money out of the grand
+Stock, but to take such Mens Money as were gone, and had left their Money
+behind; and this being consented to, truly, my Friends took the Occasion,
+and took all their own Money, and mine, (being 64 little Chests of Pieces
+of Eight) and carry'd it on Board, as if it had been of Men that were
+Prick'd-run, and no Body took any Notice of it. These twelve Men had also
+now got twelve more with them, under Pretence of manning a Ship, if we
+should buy one, and in this Pickle away they put to Sea.
+
+We had due Notice of every Thing that was done; and having a Signal given
+of the Time they resolv'd to go, we pack'd up all our Treasure, and began
+our March to the Place appointed, which from our Quarters was about forty
+Mile farther North.
+
+Our Habitation, that is to say, my new House, was about sixteen Miles up
+the Country, so that the rest of our People could have no Notice of our
+March, neither did they miss us, at least, as I heard of, for we never
+heard any more of them; nor can I imagine what Condition or Circumstance
+they can be in at present, if they are still upon the Place, as, however, I
+believe some of them are.
+
+We join'd our Comrades, with a great Deal of Ease, about three Days
+afterwards, for we march'd but softly, and they lay by for us: The Night
+before we went on Board, we made them a Signal by Fire, as we had appointed
+to let them know where we were, and that we were at Hand; so they sent
+their Boat and fetch'd us off, and we embark'd without any Notice taken by
+the Rest.
+
+As we were now loose, and at Sea, our next Business was to resolve whither
+we should go; and I soon govern'd the Point, resolving for _Bassaro_ in the
+Gulph of _Persia_, where I knew we might shift for ourselves: Accordingly,
+we steer'd away for the _Arabian_ Coast, and had good Weather for some
+Time, even till we made the Land at a great Distance, when we steer'd
+Eastward along the Shore.
+
+We saw several Ships, in our Way, bound to and from the Red Sea, as we
+suppos'd, and, at another Time, we would have been sure to have spoken with
+them: But, we had done Pirating; our Business now was, how to get off, and
+make our Way to some Retreat, where we might enjoy what we had got; so we
+took no Notice of any Thing by the Way; but, when we was thus sailing
+merrily along, the Weather began to change, the Evening grew black and
+cloudy, and threaten'd a Storm: We were in Sight or a little Island, (I
+know nothing of its Name) under which we might have anchor'd with Safety
+enough, but our People made light of it, and went on.
+
+About an Hour after Sun-set the Wind began to rise, and blew hard at N. E.
+and at N. E. by N. and in two Hours Time encreas'd to such a Tempest, as in
+all my Rambles I never met with the like; we were not able to carry a Knot
+of Sail, or to know what to do, but to stow every Thing close, and let her
+drive; and, in this Condition we continu'd all the Night, all the next Day,
+and Part of the Night after; towards Morning the Storm abated a little, but
+not so as to give us any Prospect of pursuing our voyage; all the Ease we
+had, was, that we could just carry a little Sail to steddy the Vessel, and
+run away before it; which we did at that violent Rate, that we never abated
+'till we made Land on the East Side of _Madagascar_, the very Island we
+came from, only on the other Side of the Island.
+
+However, we were glad we had any Place to run to for Harbour; so we put in
+under the Lee of a Point of Land that gave us Shelter from the Wind, and
+where we came to an Anchor, after being all of us almost dead with the
+Fatigue; and, if our Sloop had not been an extraordinary Sea-boat, she
+could never have born such a Sea, for twelve Days together, as we were in,
+the worst I ever saw before or since. We lay here, to refresh ourselves,
+about twenty Days; and, indeed, the Wind blew so hard all the while, that
+if we had been dispos'd to go to Sea, we could not have done it; and, being
+here, about seven of our Men began to repent their Bargain, and left us,
+which I was not sorry for. It seems, the principal Reason of their looking
+back, was, their being of those who had left their Money behind them. They
+did not leave us without our Consent, and therefore our Carpenters built
+them a Boat, during the three Weeks we stay'd here, and fitted it very
+handsomely for them, with a Cabin for their Convenience, and a Mast and
+Sail, with which they might very well sail round to our Settlement, as we
+suppose they did: We gave them Fire-arms and Ammunition sufficient, and
+left them furnishing themselves with Provisions; and this, we suppose, was
+the Boat, tho' with other Men in it, which adventur'd afterwards as far as
+the _Cape of Good Hope_, and was taken up by a _Portugese_ in Distress, by
+which Means they got Passage for themselves to _Lisbone_, pretending they
+had made their Escape from the Pirates at _Madagascar_; but we were told,
+that the _Portuguese_ Captain took a good deal of their Money from them,
+under Pretence of keeping it from his own Seamen; and that when they came
+on Shore, and began to claim it, he threaten'd them with taking them up,
+and prosecuting them for Pirates, which made them compound with him, and
+take about 10000 Dollars for above 120000, which they had with them; which,
+by the Way, was but a scurvy Trick: They had, it seems, a considerable
+Quantity of Gold among them, which they had the Wit to conceal from the
+Captain of the Ship, and which was enough for such Fellows as them, and
+more than they well knew what to do with; so that they were rich enough
+still, tho' the _Portugal_ Captain was nevertheless a Knave for all that.
+
+We left them here, as I have said, and put to Sea again; and, in about
+twenty Days Sail, having pretty good Weather, we arriv'd at the Gulph of
+_Persia_: It would be too long to give you an Account of the particular
+Fortunes of some of our People after this, the Variety of which would fill
+a Volume by itself: But, in the first Place, we, who were determin'd to
+travel, went on Shore at _Bassaro_, leaving the rest of our Men to buy
+Rice, and load the larger Vessel back to their Comrades, which they
+promis'd to do; but how far they perform'd I know not.
+
+We were thirteen of us that went on Shore here; from whence we hir'd a kind
+of Barge, or rather a Bark, which, after much Difficulty, and very unhandy
+Doings of the Men who we had hir'd, brought us to _Babylon_, or _Bagdat_,
+as it is now call'd.
+
+Our Treasure was so great, that if it had been known what we had about us,
+I am of Opinion we should never have troubl'd _Europe_ with our Company:
+However, we gat safe to _Babylon_ or_ Bagdat_, where we kept ourselves
+_Incog_ for a while, took a House by ourselves, and lay four or five Days
+still, till we had got Vests and long Gowns made to appear Abroad in as
+_Armenian_ Merchants. After we had got Cloaths, and look'd like other
+People, we began to appear Abroad; and I, that from the Beginning had
+meditated my Escape by myself, began now to put it into Practice; and,
+walking one Morning upon the Bank of the River _Euphrates_, I mus'd with
+myself what Course I should take to make off, and get quite away from the
+Gang, and let them not so much as suspect me.
+
+While I was walking here, comes up one of my Comrades, and one who I always
+took for my particular Friend: I know what you are employ'd in, _said he_,
+while you seem only to be musing, and refreshing yourself with the cool
+Breeze. Why, _said I_, what am I musing about? Why, _said he_, you are
+studying how you should get away from us; but, muse upon it as long as you
+will, _says he_, you shall never go without me, for I am resolv'd to go
+with you which Way soever you take. 'Tis true, _says I_, I was musing which
+Way I should go, but not which Way I should go without you; for tho' I
+would be willing to part Company, yet you cannot think I would go alone;
+and you know I have chosen you out from all the Company to be the Partner
+of all my Adventures.
+
+Very well, _says he_, but I am to tell you now, that it is not only
+necessary that we should not go all together; but, our Men have all
+concluded, that we should make our Escape every one for himself, and should
+separate as we could; so that you need make no Secret of your Design any
+more than of the Way you intend to take.
+
+I was glad enough of this News, and it made me very easy in the
+Preparations we made for our setting out: And, the first Thing we did, was,
+to get us more Cloaths, having some made of one Fashion, some of another;
+but, my Friend and I, who resolv'd to keep together, made us Cloaths after
+the Fashion of the _Armenian_ Merchants, whose Country we pretended to
+travel through.
+
+In the mean Time, five of our Men dress'd like Merchants; and, laying out
+their Money in Raw Silk, and Wrought Silks, and other Goods of the Country,
+proper for _Europe_, (in which they were directed by an _English_ Merchant
+there) resolv'd to take the usual Rout, and travel by the Caravans from
+_Babylon_ to _Alleppo_, and so to _Scanderoon_, and we staid and saw them
+and their Bales go off in Boats for a great Town on the _Euphrates_, where
+the Caravans begin to take up the Passengers; the other six divided
+themselves, one Half of them went for _Agra_, the Country of the Great
+Mogul, resolving to go down the River _Hoogly_ to _Bengal_; but whither
+they went afterward or what Course they took, I never knew, neither whether
+they really went at all or not.
+
+The other three went by Sea, in a _Persian_ Vessel, back from the Red Sea
+to the Gulf of _Mocca_, and I heard of them all three at _Marseilles_; but
+whither they went afterwards I never knew, nor could I come to speak with
+them even there.
+
+As for me and my Friend, we first laid out all the Silver we had in
+_European_ Ware, such as we knew would vend at _Ispahan_, which we carry'd
+upon twelve Camels; and hiring some Servants, as well for our Guide as our
+Guard, we set out.
+
+The Servants we hir'd were a Kind of _Arab_, but rather looking like the
+Great Mogul's people, than real _Arabians_; and when we came into _Persia_,
+we found they were look'd upon as no better than Dogs, and were not only
+used ill, but that we were used ill for their Sakes; and after we were come
+three Days into the _Persian_ Dominions, we found ourselves oblig'd to part
+with them; so we gave them three Dollars a Man to go back again.
+
+They understood their Business very well, and knew well enough what was the
+Reason of it, though we did not. However, we found we had committed a great
+Mistake in it; for we perceiv'd that they were so exasperated at being
+turn'd off, that they vowed to be revenged; and, indeed, they had their
+Revenge to the Full; for the same Day, at Night, they return'd in the Dark,
+and set eleven Houses on Fire in the Town where we quartered; which, by the
+Way, had gone near to have cost me my Life, and would certainly have done
+so, if in the Hurry I had not seiz'd one of the Incendiaries and deliver'd
+him up to them.
+
+The People were so provok'd at him that was taken that they fell upon him
+with all possible Fury as the common Incendiary and Burner of the Town, and
+presently quitted us (for they had before vowed our Destruction) but, as I
+said, quitted us immediately, and thronged about the Wretch they had taken;
+and, indeed, I made no Question but that they would have immediately
+murder'd him (nay, that they would have torn him in Pieces before they
+parted with him). But after they had vented their Rage at him for some Time
+with all possible Reproaches and Indignities, they carry'd him before the
+_Cadi_, or Judge of the Place. The _Cadi_, a wise, grave Man, answered, no,
+he would not judge him at that Time, for they were too hot and passionate
+to do Justice; but they should come with him in the Morning, when they were
+cool, and he would hear them.
+
+It is true this was a most excellent Step of the _Cadi_ as to the right Way
+of doing Justice; but it did not prove the most expedient in the present
+Occasion, though that was none of his Fault neither; for in the Night the
+Fellow got out of their Hands, by what Means or by whose Assistance I never
+heard to this Day; and the _Cadi_ fined the Town in a considerable Sum for
+letting a Man accused of a capital Crime make his Escape before he was
+adjudged, and, as we call it, discharged according to Law.
+
+This was an eminent Instance of the Justice of these People; and though
+they were doubly enraged at the Escape of the Fellow, who, without Doubt,
+was guilty, yet they never open'd their Mouths against the _Cadi_; but
+acquiesc'd in his Judgment, as in that of an Oracle, and submitted to the
+national Censure, or Censure according to the Custom of their Nation, which
+he had pass'd upon them in their publick Capacity for the Escape of the
+Man.
+
+We were willing to get out of this Place as soon as we could; for we found
+the Peoples Rage, which wanted an Object to vent itself upon, began to
+threaten us again: So having pack'd up our Goods, and gotten five ordinary
+Camel-Drivers for our Servants in the Country, we set out again.
+
+The Roads in _Persia_ are not so much frequented, as to be well
+accommodated with Inns, so that several Times we were oblig'd to lodge upon
+the Ground in the Way; but our new Servants took Care to furnish us with
+Lodging; for as soon as we let them know we wanted Rest, and inclin'd to
+stop, they set up a Tent for us, in so short a Time, that we were scarce
+able to imagine it possible, and under this we encamp'd, our Camels being
+just by us, and our Servants and Bales lying all hard by.
+
+Once or twice we lodg'd in publick Inns, built at the King of _Persia_'s
+Charge: These are fair large Buildings, built square, like a large Inn,
+they have all of them large Stables, and good Forrage for the Camels and
+Horses, and Apartments for perhaps two or three hundred People, and they
+are call'd _Caravansera's_, as being built to entertain whole Caravans of
+Travellers: On the great Roads to _Tauris_ and the Side of _Turky_ they are
+all fortify'd, and are able to entertain five or six Thousand People, and
+have a Stock to furnish what Number of Men can come with Provisions; nay,
+it has been known, that whole armies of the _Persians_ have on their March
+been furnish'd with Provisions in one of these _Caravansera's_, and that
+they have kill'd 2000 Sheep for them in one Night's Time.
+
+In this Manner we travell'd to _Ispahan_, the Capital of _Persia_, where
+appearing as Merchants, and with several Camels loaden with Merchandize, we
+pass'd all Possibility of Suspicion, and being perfectly easy, we continu'd
+here some Time, sold our Cargoes, and would gladly have remitted the Money
+to other Places, as for _Constantinople_ in particular; but we found the
+_Turks_ and _Persians_ have no such Thing as an Exchange, by Bills running
+between them and other Nations, no, nor between one Town and another.
+
+We were invited here by a sudden Accident to have gone Home by the
+_Caspian_ Sea and _Astracan_, so thro' _Muscovy_; but I had heard so much
+of the Barbarity of the _Russians_, the dangerous Navigation of the
+_Caspian_ Sea by Reason of the Calms and Shoals, the Hazard of being robb'd
+by the _Tartars_ on the River _Wolga_, and the like, that I chose to travel
+to _Constantinople_, a Journey through Desarts, over Mountains and Wastes,
+among so many Sorts of Barbarians, that I would run any Kind of Hazards by
+Sea, before I would attempt such a Thing again.
+
+It would deserve another History to let you into all the different
+Circumstances of this Journey; how well I was us'd by some, and how ill by
+others; nay, how well by some _Mahometans_, how ill by some Christians: But
+it shall suffice to tell you, that I am at present at _Constantinople_;
+and, tho' I write this here, I do not purpose to send it to you till I come
+to _Marseilles_ in _France_; from whence I intend to go and live in some
+inland Town, where, as they have, perhaps, no Notion of the Sea, so they
+will not be inquisitive after us.
+
+      I am, _&c._
+
+
+   _FINIS._
+
+
+
+
+
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