The History of the Pyrates. Vol. II.: Containing the lives of Captain Misson, Captain Bowen, Captain Kidd, Captain Tew, Captain Halsey, Captain White, Captain Condent, Captain Bellamy, Captain Fly, Captain Howard, Captain Lewis, Captain Cornelius, Captain Williams, Captain Burgess, Captain North, and their several crewsDefoe, Daniel
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The History of the Pyrates. Vol. II.: Containing the lives of Captain Misson, Captain Bowen, Captain Kidd, Captain Tew, Captain Halsey, Captain White, Captain Condent, Captain Bellamy, Captain Fly, Captain Howard, Captain Lewis, Captain Cornelius, Captain Williams, Captain Burgess, Captain North, and their several crews
Defoe, Daniel
Pirates -- Early works to 1800
In _Luengo_ Bay he saw two Ships at Anchor, one a _Dutchman_ of 44 Guns,
the other an _English_ Ship, called the _Fame_, Captain _Bowen_,
Commander; they both cut and ran ashore, the _Fame_ was lost, but the
_Dutch_ Ship, the Pyrate, got off and took with him. When he was at Sea
again he discharged Captain _Hill_, and stood away for the
_East-Indies_. Near the Cape he took an _Ostend East-India_ Man, of
which Mr. _Nash_, a noted Merchant in _London_, was Supercargo. Soon
after he took a _Dutch East-India_ Man, discharged the _Ostender_, and
made for _Madagascar_; at the Isle of St. _Mary_, he met with some of
Captain _Halsey_'s Crew, whom he took on board with other Stragglers,
and shaped his Course for the _East-Indies_, and in the Way, at the
Island of _Johanna_, took, in Company of two other Pyrates he met at St.
_Mary_'s, the _Cassandra East-India_ Man, commanded by Captain _James
Macragh_; he continued his Course for the _East-Indies_, where he made a
very great Booty, and returning, touch'd at the Isle of _Mascarenas_,
where he met with a _Portuguese_ Ship of 70 Guns, with the Vice-Roy of
_Goa_, on board. This Ship he made Prize of, and hearing she had Money
on board, they would allow of no Ransom, but carried her to the Coast of
_Zanguebar_, where was a _Dutch_ Fortification, which they took and
plunder'd, razed the Fort, and carried off several Men who enter'd
voluntarily. From hence they stood for St. _Mary_'s, where they shared
their Booty, broke up their Company, and settled among the Natives: Here
a _Snow_ came from _Bristol_, which they obliged to carry a Petition to
the Governor of _Mascarenas_ for a Pardon, tho' they paid the Master
very generously. The Governor returned Answer, he would take them into
Protection if they would destroy their Ships, which they agreed to, and
accordingly sunk the _Flying Dragon_, &c. _Condent_ and some others went
to _Mascarenas_, where _Condent_ married the Governor's Sister-in-Law,
and stay'd some Time; but as I have been credibly inform'd, he is since
come to _France_, settled at St. _Maloes_, and drives a considerable
Trade as a Merchant.
A DESCRIPTION of _MAGADOXA_,
taken partly from the Journal
of Captain _Beavis_, and also from
an original Manuscript of a Molotto,
who was taken by the Natives, and
lived amongst them sixteen Years.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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