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
Children, the _Bijoux_, at two more Voyages, carried over the rest of
the _Johannians_.
_Misson_ hove down the _Bijoux_, and resolving on a Cruise on the Coast
of _Guiney_, to strengthen his Colony by the Capture of some slaving
Ship, he gave the Command of her to Captain _Tew_, and he and
_Caraccioli_ press'd the Work of the Dock; he gave him also 200 Hands,
of which 40 were _Portuguese_, 37 Negroes, 17 of them expert Sailors, 30
_English_, and the rest _French_. _Tew_ met with nothing in his Way till
he came to the Northward of the Cape of _Good Hope_, when he fell in
with a _Dutch East-India_ Galley of 18 Guns, which he took after a small
Resistance, and with the Loss of one Man only; on the Coast of _Angola_
he took an _English_ Man with 240 Slaves, Men, Women, and Boys. The
Negroes, who had before been taken on this Coast, found among these a
great many of their Acquaintance, and several of their Relations, to
whom they reported their happy and unexpected change of Fortune, the
great Captain (for so they now called _Misson_) humanly having knocked
off their Chains, and of Slaves made them free Men, and Sharers in his
Fortunes. That the same good Fortune had attended them in their falling
into his Hands, for he abhorr'd even the Name of Slavery. _Tew_
following the Orders, and acquainted with the Policy of _Misson_,
order'd their Fetters and Handcuffs to be taken off, upon his Negroe
Sailors, assuring him they would not revolt, and were sensible of their
Happiness in falling into his Hands. Content with these Prizes, he made
the best of his Way home to _Libertatia_, where he arrived without any
sinister Accident; but I forgot to tell my Reader, that he set his
_Dutch_ Prisoners (nine excepted, who took on with him) ashore, about 30
Miles to the Northward of the Cape, in _Soldinia_ Bay, where had been
buried, by Captain _Misson_, the _English_ Commander; he found a great
Quantity of _English_ Crowns on Board his _Dutch_ Prize, which were
carried into the common Treasury, Money being of no Use where every
Thing was in common, and no Hedge bounded any particular Man's Property.
The Slaves he had released in this last Cruize were employ'd in the
perfecting the Dock, and treated on the Foot of free People. They were
not ignorant of the Change of their Condition, and were therefore
extreamly diligent and faithful. A White Man, or one of the old standing
Negroes, wrought with every four, and made them understand the _French_
Words (by often Repetition, and the Help of their Country Mens
interpreting) used in their Works. _Misson_ ordered a couple of Sloops
to be built in a Creek, of 80 Tun each, which he mounted with 8 Guns a
piece, out of the _Dutch_ Prize. These were perfected in a little Time,
and proved not only shapely Vessels, but excellent Sailors. The Officers
of these Sloops were chosen by ballotting, and as their first Design was
only to discover and lay down a Chart of the Coast, Sands, Shoals, and
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