Depths of Water round the Island of _Madagascar_; The School Master being sent for that Reason with the Command of one, _Tew_ desired, and had the other. They were mann'd, each Sloop with 50 Whites and 50 black Men. Which Voyage round the Island was of vast Advantage in giving the new released _Angola_ Negroes a Notion of the working a Vessel; and they were very industrious both in endeavouring to learn the _French_ Language, and to be useful. These Sloops, the one of which was called the _Childhood_, and the other the _Liberty_, were near four Months on this Expedition; in the mean while a few of the Natives had come often to the Settlement, and they began to speak a little broken _French_, mix'd with the other _European_ Languages, which they heard among _Misson_'s People, and six of the native Families fixed among them, which was of vast Use to the Planters of this new Colony; for they made a very advantageous Report to their Country Men of the Regularity and Harmony they observed in them. The Sloops being return'd, and an exact Chart taken of the Coast, _Carraccioli_ had a mind for a Cruize; he proposed the visiting all the neighbouring Islands, accordingly he went out to _Mascarenas_, and the other Islands near it, taking one half of his Crew of Negroes, and return'd with a _Dutch_ Prize, which he took off the abovementioned Island, where they were about fixing a Colony. This Prize, as it had on Board all Sorts of _European_ Goods, and Necessaries for settling, was more valuable than if it had been vastly richer. The Negroes growing useful Hands, _Misson_ resolved on a Cruize to the Northward, encouraged by _Tew_'s Success; and, with all the Blacks, which he divided between the two Ships, one of which Captain _Tew_ commanded, set out with 500 Men: Off the Coast of _Arabia Foelix_, they fell in with a Ship belonging to the _Great Mogul_, bound for _Zidon_, with Pilgrims to _Mecca_, who, with _Moor_ Mariners, made up the Number of 1600 Souls. This Ship carried 110 Guns, but made a very poor Defence, being encumber'd with the Goods and Number of Passengers they carried. The two Adventurers did not think it their Business to cannonade, they therefore boarded as soon as they came up with her, and the _Moors_ no sooner saw them enter'd, but they discharged one Volley of small Arms at Random, we may suppose, because no Execution was done, and fled the Decks. Being Masters of this Ship, which did not cost them a single Man, they consulted what they should do with her, and the Prisoners, and it was resolved to set them ashore between _Ain_ and _Aden_; but as they wanted Women, to keep all the unmarried, and to navigate the Ship to _Libertatia_; as the Guns might be of Use to them; and, by letting her go, or sinking, they might lose, perhaps, a considerable Booty, which the _Moors_, might have hid in her Cielings or Ballast.