The first Voyage he made was to _Carolina_, where some Merchants finding him every Way capable, and that he was a sober intelligent Man, gave him the Command of a Ship, and sent him to the _West-Indies_. He continued in this Employ for several Years, but one Voyage, in his Return, he had the Misfortune to fall in with, and be taken, by a _French_ Pyrate, who having no Artist on board, detain'd Captain _Bowen_ to navigate their Vessel; and after cruizing some Time in the _West-Indies_, shap'd their Course for the _Guiney_ Coast, where they made several Prizes, and took several good Artists; but having Experience of Captain _Bowen_, he could by no Means prevail on them for a Discharge; tho' notwithstanding the Service he was to them, they treated him as roughly as they did their other Prisoners, of which I have already taken Notice in Captain _White_'s Life. They (the Pyrates) doubled the _Cape_ of _Good Hope_, steer'd for, refresh'd at _Johanna_, and having made their Voyage to the _East-Indies_, lost their Ship, as is already shewn in the above Life, (and need not be here repeated) on _Madagascar_: The other Particularities which are not set down in _Bowen_'s own Life, will be found in those of his Companions; as his going with Captain _Read_; the taking the _Grabb_; the coming to _Mayotta_, and from thence in the _Grabb_ to _Madagascar_; the joining of that Vessel and _Fourgette_'s; the taking the _Speaker_; his succeeding _Booth_ in the Command, and his Death at _Mascarenas_. OF Capt. _Nathaniel North_, And his CREW. We have placed this Life in the Appendix, which will not perhaps be thought a proper Place; but we could not gather the Particulars, which were collected out of several different Journals, Time enough to insert it in the Body of the Book, and therefore, thought of reserving this Life for Part of another Volume; but when we had compiled it, and found it was a Sort of Recapitulation of the Adventures of the _Madagascar_ Pyrates which went before, we judged it more proper to give it in the Appendix than to separate this Gentleman from his Companions; and we were the rather induc'd to this, as the Reader will here find an Account of _Bowen_'s Death, which we had not learn'd at the Time we wrote his Life; the Papers which we got after a long Search, and which has furnish'd us with some other Particulars of that Rover's Life, not being at that Time to be found. * * * * *