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
All this Discourse was reported that Night to the King, the Consequence
of which was, that he was sent for the next Morning; the first Question
the King ask'd him was, whether that _Shabew_ or Ship which had appear'd
in Sight, was the same in which he came? He answered, he could not tell,
unless he was to see it, (but that could not be done now, for she was
gone off without coming to an Anchor, or sending her Boat on Shore.) The
King then ask'd him, whether he had a Desire to return back to the
_Moorzacks_? He answered, it was what he longed for of all Things, and
repeated the same Things concerning the Pleasure he took in that Place,
which he had done before to the _Kasboo_; he found this tickled the
King's Vanity, and put him into good Humour, wherefore, he commanded him
to be conducted back, whither he arrived with a much lighter Heart than
he left it, having the Satisfaction also of seeing his Comrades mighty
well pleas'd at his safe Return amongst them.
Here he pass'd his Time without any Care, having every Thing provided
for him, being at Leisure all the Day long to divert himself as he
would, for except taking his Watch in his Turn, he had nothing to do,
but to clean the _Moorzacks_ every new Moon, both within and without,
and to take Care that the Lamps around them should be supplied with Oil,
and never go out.
He observ'd his Companions employed their Leisure Time all in some Work,
most of them in making some little Curiosities, which the Towns-People
used to walk out, and buy of them, and which enabled them to purchase
Liquor and other Things they had an Inclination for; his Comrade in
particular used to amuse himself with making Fishing-Nets, but these
Nets are very different from those used in _Europe_, they are made of
Sea-Grass, wove out into a certain Length, and the Fisherman before he
uses them, fastens to them a certain Number of Hooks (for they are
ignorant of the Art of contriving Nets to catch Fish without Hooks) his
Comrade with a great Deal of Ease used to make one of these a Week, and
he observing how he work'd them, did not doubt but he could do the same;
therefore he begg'd of his Comrade to give him a little of his
Sea-Grass, with which he began to make Trial, and succeeded so well,
that in a few Days he finished a Net, which he truck'd away for a
Quantity of Sea Grass.
He was now set up for a new Trade, and was so industrious in it, that he
work'd his Nets with much more Curiosity than any of his Partners, and
of Consequence had better Business; so that in a little Time he was able
to purchase a Piece of Dungeree Linnen with his own Earnings, of which
he made himself a Wastecoat after the _English_ Fashion, and a Pair of
long Drawers; but he had not worn them above a Day or two when the
_Bankoo_, or Steward of the _Moorzacks_, commanded him to leave off the
Wastecoat, that he might appear like the rest, who wore nothing but a
Piece of any Stuff they could get, about their Wastes, to cover their
Nakedness.
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