The rest of them were settled in small Companies of about 12 or 14 together, more or less, up the said River, and along the Coast, every Nation by it self, as the _English_, _French_, _Dutch_, _&c._ They made Enquiry of their Consorts after the Shares of Prizes which belong'd to them, and they found all very justly laid by to be given them, if ever they return'd, as were what belong'd to the Men who went over Land. Captain _White_ hankering after home, proposed going out again in the Boat; for he was averse to settling with them; and many others agreed to go under his Command; and if they could not meet with a Ship to carry them to _Europe_, to follow their old Vocation. But the others did not think it reasonable he should have the Boat, but that it should be set to Sale for the Benefit of the Company. Accordingly it was set up, and Captain _White_ bought it for 400 Pieces of Eight, and with some of his old Consorts, whose Number was increas'd by others of the Ship's Crew, he went back the Way he had come, to _Methelage_: Here he met with a _French_ Ship of about 50 Tuns and 6 Guns; she had been taken by some Pyrates who lived at _Maratan_, on the East-Side of the Island, and some of the _Degrave East-India_ Man's Crew, to whom the Master of her refused a Passage to _Europe_; for as he had himself been a Pyrate and Quarter-Master to _Bowen_ in the _Speaker_, he apprehended their taking away his Ship, War being then between _England_ and _France_, he thought they might do it without being called in question as Pyrates. The Pyrates who had been concerned in taking _Herault_'s Ship, for that was his Name, had gone up the Country, and left her to the Men belonging to the _Degrave_, who had fitted her up, clean'd and tallow'd her, and got in some Provision, with a Design to go to the _East-Indies_, that they might light on some Ship to return to their own Country. Captain _White_ finding these Men proposed their joining him, and going round to _Ambonavoula_, to make up a Company, which they agreed to, and unanimously chose him Commander. They accordingly put to Sea, and stood away round the South End of the Island, and touch'd at _Don Mascarena_, where he took in a Surgeon, and stretching over again to _Madagascar_, fell in with _Ambonavoula_, and made up his Complement 60 Men. From hence he shaped his Course for the Island of _Mayotta_, where he cleaned his Ship, and staid for the Season to go into the _Red Seas_: His Provisions being taken in, the Time proper, and the Ship well fitted, he steer'd for _Babelmandel_, and running into a Harbour waited for the _Mocha_ Ships.