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
It happened that the _Hamman_ or Governor of the Town of _Saeni_, a
Place about twenty Leagues to the Eastward of _Magadoxa_, in the same
Kingdom of _Zanguebar_, having committed some Violences, by which he got
the ill Will of the People, they rose against him, and kill'd him. This
News was no sooner brought to _Magadoxa_, than the _Accabo_, tho' he
keeps no Army or Guards, except the _Passaus_ to watch the _Moorzacks_,
immediately rais'd a Body of two thousand Men, arm'd with Bows and
Arrows, and march'd in Person at the Head of them, to suppress the
Rebels. The second Days March, Advice was brought him that the _Schabew_
or Ship had been seen near a little Town call'd _Bandan_, ten Leagues
Eastward of _Saeni_, and thirty of _Magadoxa_: Upon which Intelligence,
he forthwith commanded six Men to march back to the _Moorzacks_ as
expeditiously as they could, in order to fetch our Molotto, and with him
to join the Army as soon as they could. They found him upon his Duty,
and commanded him to march away immediately, with his Bow and Arrows,
which were the Arms that belonged to him, as a _Passau_ or Guard of the
Moorzacks, so that he seem'd to march as a Soldier more than a Prisoner.
After two Days hard March they came up with the Army which had made a
Halt, at some Distance from the Town of _Saeni_, and the _Accabo_ having
sent out a Detachment to lie in Ambuscade near the Town, they took some
Prisoners, who being brought in, declared that all the Inhabitants had
abandoned the Town upon the News of the King's Approach, and were fled
away for Fear. At the same Time they gave such Instances of the Tyranny
of the late _Hamman_ or Governor, and of the Necessity they were under
of doing as they did, that the King appeared satisfied with their
Behaviour; and to lay aside all Resentment, ordered several of them to
go and find out the Rest, and give them Notice, that they might return
to their Habitations, for that all was pardon'd, and that he would send
them a better Governor. And, as if all had been over, the next Day he
began to move with his Army back towards _Magadoxa_, but marched
extreamly slow; towards Night, they came near a great Wood, into which
he commanded his whole Army to enter, in order to lie that Night; the
next Morning he gave Orders that no Man upon Pain of Death should go out
of the Wood.
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