[Footnote 7: Further south, on the Canara coast.] [Footnote 8: Still further south, on the Malabar coast; still on the west coast of Hindustan, of which Cape Comorin, below, is the southernmost point.] [Footnote 9: Arabic _gurab_, a large coasting-vessel.] [Footnote 10: Malacca.] [Footnote 11: Mauritius, then a Dutch island.] [Footnote 12: See paragraphs 12, 13, in Capt. Adam Baldridge's deposition, no. 68, _infra_. Governor Fletcher of New York, July 16, 1695, had given Hoar a commission as a privateer to cruise against the French in the _John and Rebecca_. Glover and Hoar were brothers-in-law. _Cal. St. P. Col._, 1697-1698, p. 108.] The Island St. Maries is a pritty large Island, well inhabited by black people, where one Captain Baldridge[13] (who, as he was informed, had formerly killed a man in Jamaica, and thereupon turned Pirate about 13 years agoe) had built a platforme of a Fort with 22 Guns, which was destroyed, together with Captain Glover and the rest of the Pyrats there, whilst this Informant was at Madagascar about nine months agoe, by the Blacks, who also killed 7 English men and 4 French men in the house where this Informant was at Madagascar, sparing only himself. [Footnote 13: See document no. 68, _post_.] There was then also a party of English in another part of the Island of Madagascar, who defended themselves against the Blacks on an Island in a River there, having some of the blacks on their side, till Captain Baldredge, who was then absent with the said Brigantine (which he had bought and sailed in her to Mascarine,[14] an Island belonging to the French, where he went to sell Prize Goods) returned, and took them off, carryed them to St. Augustines Bay,[15] they paying considerably for their Transportation. This Informant further saith that, before this happened, he run away from the _Resolution_ and remained on the Island of Madagascar as aforesaid, the said ship being gone, as he was told, to the Streights of Mallacca, which is about Tenn months since; That he this Informant was redeemed for a parcell of Gun Powder by those who defended themselves as aforesaid, and went with them aboard the Briggantine, who went first to St. Augustines Bay to putt some men ashore (who had not money to pay for their further passage) and thence sailed to St. Helena, where they arrived about six months agoe, pretending there to be a trading ship belonging to New York, upon which they got water and Provisions.[16] But this Informant run away from the said ship at St. Hellena and concealed himself in the Island till she was gone (who stayed there about 7 or 8 days) and continued there about 3 months till the arrivall of the _Sampson_ there from the East Indies, aboard of which ship he came for England with the consent of the Governor of St. Helena. [Footnote 14: See document no. 63, note 21.] [Footnote 15: On the southwest coast of Madagascar.]