The _Severn_ and _Scarborough_ sailed from England in May, 1703, under Commodore Richards, who died at Johanna in the following March. The command was then taken by Captain Harland, who visited Madagascar and Mauritius, where two men were arrested, who afterwards made their escape at Mohilla. The two ships returned to England in October, 1705. Hamilton tells us how a "Scots ship commanded by one Millar did the public more service in destroying them, than all the chargeable squadrons that have been sent in quest of them; for, with a cargo of strong ale and brandy, which he carried to sell them, in anno 1704, he killed above 500 of them by carousing, although they took his ship and cargo as a present from him, and his men entered, most of them into the society of the pirates." [1] This was probably a village near Ras Mabber, about one hundred and sixty-five miles south of Cape Guardafui. [2] In ships of this class the quartermaster was next in importance to the captain or master. The incident refers to the death of Moore, the gunner of the _Adventure_, who was killed by Kidd in a fit of anger for saying that Kidd had ruined them all. The killing of Moore was one of the indictments against Kidd at his trial. [3] Warren had returned from his first cruise in the autumn of 1697. [4] One small Arab vessel that rashly attacked the _Harwich_, mistaking it for a merchant vessel, was disposed of with a broadside. [5] Twenty were condemned and hung in one batch, in June, 1700; one of the _Mocha_ mutineers among them. This was probably Guillam, to whom Kidd had given a passage to America from Madagascar, and was supposed to have been the man who stabbed Captain Edgecombe. CHAPTER III _THE RISE OF CONAJEE ANGRIA_ Native piracy hereditary on the Malabar coast--Marco Polo's account--Fryer's narrative--The Kempsant--Arab and Sanganian pirates--Attack on the _President_--Loss of the _Josiah_--Attack on the _Phoenix_--The _Thomas_ captured--Depredations of the Gulf pirates--Directors' views--Conajee Angria--Attacks English ships--Destroys the _Bombay_--Fortifies Kennery--Becomes independent--Captures the Governor's yacht--Attacks the _Somers_ and _Grantham_--Makes peace with Bombay--His navy--Great increase of European and native piracy.