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
In the Interim, the little Fort the _Arabians_ had, play'd upon the
Ship, which returned the Salute very warmly. Thus they got on board,
with the Loss of Captain _Booth_ and twenty Men, and set Sail for the
_East-Indies_.
When they were under Sail, they went to Voting for a new Captain, and
the Quarter-Master, who had behaved so well in the last Affair with the
_Arabians_, was chosen; but he declining all Command, the Crew made
Choice of _Bowen_ for Captain, _Pickering_ to succeed him as Master,
_Samuel Herault_, a _Frenchman_, for Quarter-Master, and _Nathaniel
North_, for Captain Quarter-Master.
Things being thus settled, they came to the Mouth of the _Red Sea_, and
fell in with 13 Sail of _Moors_ Ships, which they kept Company with the
greater Part of the Day, but were afraid to venture on them as they took
them for _Portuguese_ Men of War; at length part were for boarding, and
advised it, the Captain, tho' he said little, did not seem inclin'd, for
he was but a young Pyrate, tho' an old Commander of a Merchant Man.
Those who push'd for boarding then, desired Captain _Boreman_, already
mentioned, to take the Command; but he said, he would not usurp on any,
that no Body was more fit for it than he who had it, that for his Part,
he would stand by his Fusil and went forward to the Forecastle with such
as would have had him taken the Command, to be ready to board; on which,
the Captain's Quarter-Master said, if they were resolved to engage their
Captain, (whose Representative he was) did not want Resolution,
therefore, he ordered them to get their Tacks on board (for they had
already made a clear Ship) and get ready for boarding; which they
accordingly did, and coming up with the sternmost Ship, they fired a
Broadside into her, which killed two _Moors_, clapp'd her on board and
carried her; but Night coming on, they made only this Prize, which
yielded them 500 l. _per_ Man.
From hence they sailed to the Coast of _Mallabar_; the Adventures of
these Pyrates on this Coast are already set down in Captain _Bowen_'s
Life, to which I refer the Reader, and shall only observe, Captain
_White_ was all this while afore the Mast, being a forced Man from the
Beginning.
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