_P. S._ The _Neptune_ seized as above, was the Year after Captain _Halsey_'s Death, ready to go to Sea; but a Hurricane happening she was lost, and prov'd the last Ship that Gang of Pyrates ever got Possession of. OF Captain _Thomas White_, And his CREW. He was born at _Plymouth_, where his Mother kept a Publick House; she took great Care of his Education and when he was grown up, as he had an Inclination to the Sea, procur'd him the King's Letter. After he had served some Years on board a Man of War, he went to _Barbadoes_, where he married, got into the Merchants Service, and designed to settle in the Island: He had the Command of the _Marygold Brigantine_ given him, in which he made two successful Voyages to _Guiney_ and back to _Barbadoes_; in his third, he had the Misfortune to be taken by a _French_ Pyrate, as were several other _English_ Ships, the Masters and inferior Officers of which they detained, being in Want of good Artists. The Brigantine belonging to _White_ they kept for their own Use, and sunk the Vessel they before sailed in; but meeting with a Ship on the _Guiney_ Coast more fit for their Purpose, they went on board her, and burnt the Brigantine. It is not my Business here to give an Acount of this _French_ Pyrate, any farther than Captain _White_'s Story obliges me, tho' I beg Leave to take Notice of their Barbarity to the _English_ Prisoners, for they would set them up as a Butt or Mark to shoot at; several of whom were thus murdered in cool Blood, by Way of Diversion. _White_ was marked out for a Sacrifice by one of these Villains, who, for I know not what Reason, had sworn his Death, which he escaped thus. One of the Crew, who had a Friendship for _White_, knew this Fellow's Design, to kill him in the Night, and therefore advised him to lye between him and the Ship's Side, with Intention to save him; which indeed he did, but was himself shot dead by the murderous Villain, who mistook him for _White_; but this by the Bye. After some Time cruizing along the Coast, the Pyrates doubled the _Cape_ of _Good Hope_, and shaped their Course for _Madagascar_, where, being drunk and mad, they knock'd their Ship on the Head, at the _South_ End of the Island, at a Place called by the Natives _Elexa_; the Country thereabouts was governed by a King, named _Mafaly_. When the Ship struck, Captain _White_, Captain _Boreman_, (born in the Isle of _White_, formerly a Lieutenant of a Man of War, but in the Merchants Service when he fell into the Hands of the Pyrates) Captain _Bowen_ and some other Prisoners got to the Long-Boat, and with broken Oars and Barrel Staves, which they found in the Bottom of the Boat, paddled to _Augustine_ Bay; that is about 14 or 15 Leagues from the Wreck where they landed, and were kindly received by the King of _Bavaw_ (the Name of that Part of the Island) who spoke good _English_.