_North_ would not suffer _J. B._ to go ashore; however, to make him amends for his Confinement, he gave him four Negroes, whom he sold for 300 Dollars, and took Care that he should live plentifully and well on board. _North_'s Business, at this Island, was to get Leave to carry his Children there to be educated in the Christian Faith, which after some rich Presents made the Governor, he obtained, and return'd to _Madagascar_. In the Voyage, as _J. B._ was very greatly in his Favour, and his Confident, he told him, his Design was to leave his Children at _Mascarenas_, and place Fortunes for them in the Hands of some honest Priest, who would give them a Christian Education (for he thought it better to have them Papists, than not Christians) and would then go back to _Maratan_, and endeavour, by his Penitence, to make Attonement for his former Life, and never more go off the Island on any Account; that he would give his Sloop to _J. B._ with two hundred Dollars, that he might find some Means to return home, since he very wisely refus'd to join with the Pyrates. When he came on the _Madagascar_ Coast, he heard a _French_ Ship had touch'd there, and left some Men behind her; upon which Account, _North_ ran to the Southward 100 Leagues out of his Way, to enquire after and assist these People: A Piece of Humanity which ought not to be pass'd by in Silence, for it may shame not a few among us who carry a Face of Religion, and act with greater Barbarity than those whom we hunt and destroy as a Nusance to the World, and a Scandal to the Name of Man. If any thinks this Reflection severe, let him examine into the Number of Thousands who are perishing in Goals, by the Cruelty of Creditors, sensible of their Inability to pay: Let him take a View of the Miseries which reign in those Tombs of the Living, let him enquire into the Number of those who are yearly starved to Death, to gratify an implacable Spirit, and then, if he can, clear the _English_ Laws, which allow a Creditor to punish an unfortunate Man, for his being so, with the most cruel of all invented Deaths, that of Famine; let him, I say, clear them from the Imputation of Barbarity. I beg Pardon for this Digression, which my Concern for the _English_ Character, for this only Reason sunk among Foreigners forced me into. _North_ found but one Man, whom he took home with him, cloathed and maintained him. When he came back to _Ambonavoula_, he found the Country all in an Uproar, and the Rest of his Companions preparing for a War with the Natives, but his Arrival restor'd their former Quiet. After four Months Stay at home, he fitted his Sloop to go out and purchase Slaves at _Antonguil_; but finding few there to his Mind, for in two Months he bought but forty, he return'd to his Settlement. He design'd now to carry his Children to _Mascarenas_, but dissuaded on Account of the Season, by _J. B._ he went to _Methelage_ on the West Side of the Island, to trade for Samsams.