[Footnote 1: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MSS., A. 272, fol. 48; also in the Public Record Office, C.O. 5:1042, no. 40 XI. Edward Buckmaster, "one of Shelley's men", was committed June 7, and broke prison Aug. 25. _Cal. St. P. Col._, 1699, pp. 278, 401. A year later, though he was supposed to be still alive, a rascally chaplain of the fort at New York married his wife to Capt. Adam Baldridge of document no. 68, obtaining a marriage license for "Adam Ball" and adding "-dridge" afterward. _N.Y. Col. Doc._, IV. 333, 413, 766.] Taken this 6 June 1699. The Answer of Edward Buckmaster to severall questions put to him by the Honorable John Nanfan, Esqr., Lieutenant Governor of this province,[2] the said Buckmaster being sworne to answer all such Questions as should be demanded of him. [Footnote 2: Capt. John Nanfan, a cousin of Bellomont's wife, was lieutenant-governor of New York under him, and administered the province during Bellomont's absence in Massachusetts.] Impr[imi]s. That the first land they made after they parted from this port in the _Adventure Galley_, Capt. William Kidd Commander, was the Island of Maderas, from whence they went directly to Madagascar, where they staid about A month to victual and careen. That there were no vessels at Madagascar when they came there. That they sailed from thence to a small Island called Johanna, lying in the Latitude of 12 degrees south, and from thence to Mahela, Lying in the Latitude of 11 degrees south; that they staid at the said Johanna and Mahela two Months where the Natives supplyed them with provisions. That there were four East India ships belonging to the Company at the Island Johanna at the same time they were there, the one called the _East India Merchant_ the second the _Maderasse_, the third was a fly boat, and the fourth he knows not the name of. _Item._ That from thence they sailed along the shore of Magellona[3] in the redd sea but saw no vessels till they came into the Latitude of 12 degrees north. That there they Met with several ships, some with English, some with Dutch, and some with Moors Colours, with whom they sailed in Company for Twenty five dayes but were not on board any of them. That the name of the one was the _Scepter_,[4] which ship fired a Gunn or Two At Capt. Kidds Galley. [Footnote 3: Somaliland, probably.] [Footnote 4: An English frigate. The events that follow are more fully detailed in Kidd's narrative, document no. 76, _post_.] _Item._ That they tooke a ship on the coast of Mallabar that had a french pass, and French Master on board, with two Other white men, he believes them Dutch men, the rest all Moors; she was about 200 Tuns, made no resistance, and that they shared out of her four Bailes of Callicoes each Man. That afterwards the _Adventure Galley_ sunck at Saint Maries, and Kidd and Company went on board the prize. _Item._ That Capt. Kidd had made no good voyage, having no money and only 160 Bailes of Callicoes on board.