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
The Prison which they call _Haulaub_, is a square Stone-Building, about
twenty Foot high, and flat at Top, fronting one of their broadest
Streets; there are no Windows or Iron Bars, as we see in our Prisons,
but there are several little Holes about eight or nine Inches square,
quite thro' the Wall, thro' which, the Place within receives both Light
and Air. Here the poor Molotto was put, very anxious about the Fate of
his poor Companions, whom he had not seen since their being separated at
their first coming out of the Dungeon; wherefore, seeing an old Man
looking thro' one of the Holes before described, he enquired of him what
was become of them, who gave him this melancholy Account; that those who
came last out of the Boat, which were the four Sailors sent on Board the
Ship for the Present for the King's Son, were kill'd in the Streets by
the Multitude, and that making some Resistance, they were torn to
Pieces, every Man thinking himself happy that could procure a Piece of
their Flesh, shewing a Bit of about two Ounces, which he begg'd of one
who had got a great Piece, which many of them eat; that they were all
from their Childhood taught to have an Aversion to white Men, and that
these were the first that had been seen in the Memory of Man, that as to
the tall Man and the little Man which had been in the Dungeon with him
(which were Mr. _Baldwin_ and Mr. _Sale_, the Mate and Purser) they were
by the King's Order carried to the _Boderzau_ (a Place where Tygers and
other fierce Beasts are kept for the King's Pleasure) and delivered up
to be torn to Pieces by those Animals.
This was in Effect, the true Account of the most bloody Massacre that
was committed upon these unhappy Men; the Story of which, it may be
imagined, must throw the poor Molotto into the utmost Consternation and
Fear, as imagining himself to be near suffering some cruel Death;
sometimes he flattered himself that they would spare him, because of his
being a Molotto, but on the other Side, when he reflected on his having
given the white Men a good Character, he look'd upon himself to be a
dead Man, thinking that alone was sufficient to destroy him.
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