In this Condition they arrived at the Island of _Mauritius_, about the Middle of _February_, sheathed and refitted the _Victory_, and on the 5th of _April_ sailed again, leaving this terrible Inscription on one of the Walls. _Left this Place the_ 5_th of_ April, _to go to_ Madagascar _for Limes_, and this, least (like Lawyers and Men of Business) any Visits should be paid in their Absence: However, they did not sail directly for _Madagascar_, but the Island _Mascarine_, and luckily as Rogues could wish, they found at their Arrival on the 8th, a _Portuguese_ Ship at Anchor, of 70 Guns, but most of them thrown overboard, her Masts lost, and so much disabled by a violent Storm they had met with in the Latitude of 13° South, that she became a Prize to the Pyrates, with very little or no Resistance, and a glorious one indeed, having the _Conde de Ericeira_, Viceroy of _Goa_, who made that fruitless Expedition against _Angria_, the _Indian_, and several other Passengers on Board; who, as they could not be ignorant of the Treasure she had in, did assert, that in the single Article of Diamonds, there was to the Value of between three and four Millions of Dollars. The Vice-Roy, who came on Board that Morning, in Expectation of the Ships being _English_, was made a Prisoner, and obliged to ransome; but in Consideration of his great Loss, (the Prize being Part his own,) they agreed after some Demurrings, to accept of 2000 Dollars, and set him and the other Prisoners ashore, with Promises to leave a Ship that they might Transport themselves, because the Island was not thought in a Condition to maintain so great a Number; and tho' they had learned from them, the Account of an _Ostender_ being to Leeward of the Island, which they took on that Information, (being formerly the _Greyhound_ Galley of _London_,) and could conveniently have comply'd with so reasonable a Request; yet they sent the _Ostender_ with some of their People to _Madagascar_, with News of their Success, and to prepare Masts for the Prize; and followed themselves soon after, without regard to the Sufferers, carrying 200 _Mozambique_ Negroes with them in the _Portuguese_ Ship.