Out of her they took Water Casks and other Necessaries, which having done, they designed for the River _Methelage_, on the West Side _Madagascar_, in the Lat. of 16 or thereabouts, to salt up Provisions and to proceed to the _East Indies_, cruize off the Islands of St. _John_, and lie in Wait for the _Moors_ Ships from _Mocha_. In their Way to _Methelage_ they fell in (as I have said) with the Pyrate, on board of which was Captain _White_; they join'd Company, came to an Anchor together in the above-nam'd River, where they had cleaned, salted up, taken in their Provisions, and were ready to go to Sea, when a large Ship appeared in Sight, and stood into the same River. The Pyrates knew not whether she was a Merchant Man or Man of War; she had been the latter, belonging to the _French_ King, and could mount 50 Guns; but being taken by the _English_, she was bought by some _London_ Merchants, and fitted out from that Port, to slave at _Madagascar_, and go to _Jamaica_. The Captain was a young unexperienced Man, who was put in with a Nurse. The Pyrates sent their Boats to speak with him, but the Ship firing at them, they concluded it a Man of War, and rowed to Shore, the two Pyrates slipp'd and run ashore; the Grabb standing in, and not keeping her Wind so well as the _French_ built Ship, run among a Parcel of Mangroves, and a Stump piercing her Bottom, she sunk; the other run aground, let go her Anchor, and came to no Damage, for the Tide of Flood fetch'd her off. The Captain of the _Speaker_, for that was the Name of the Ship which frighten'd the Pyrates, was not a little vain of having forced these two Vessels ashore, tho' he did not know whether they were Pyrates or Merchant Men, and could not help expressing himself in these Words; _How will my Name ring on the_ Exchange, _when it is known I have run two Pyrates aground_, which gave Handle to a satyrical Return from one of his Men after he was taken, who said, _Lord, How our Captain's Name will ring on the_ Exchange, _when it is heard, he frighten'd two Pyrate Ships ashore, and was taken by their two Boats afterwards_. When the _Speaker_ came within Shot, she fired several at the two Vessels; and when she came to an Anchor, several more into the Country, which alarm'd the Negroes, who, acquainting their King, he would allow him no Trade, till the Pyrates living ashore, and who had a Design on his Ship, interceded for 'em, telling the King, they were their Countrymen, and what had happened was thro' a Mistake, it being a Custom among them to fire their Guns by Way of Respect, and it was owing to the Gunner of the Ship's Negligence, that they fir'd Shot. The Captain of the _Speaker_ sent his Purser ashore, to go up the Country to the King, who lived about 24 Miles from the Coast, to carry a couple of small Arms inlaid with Gold, a couple of Brass Blunderbusses, and a Pair of Pistols, as Presents, and to require Trade.