58 Of Captain 4 v ERY. 



fteered, refolving to live on Shore and enjoy what 

 they got. 



As for Tew himfelf, he with a few others in a 

 Ihort Time went off to Rhode JJland^ from whence 

 he rnade his Peace. 



y'thus have we accounted for the Company o r 

 Py rates met with here. 



It muft be obferved that the Natives of Madagaf- 

 car are a kind of Negroes, they differ from thofe 

 of Guiney in their Hair, which is long, and their 

 Complexion is not fo good a Jet they have innu^, 

 merable little Princes among them, who ^re con- 

 tinually making War upon one another ^ their Fri* 

 loners are their Slaves, and they either fell them, 

 or put them to death, as they pleafe : When our 

 Fyrates firft fettled amongft them, their AllianGe 

 was much courted by thele Princes, lb they fbme- 

 times joined one, Ibmetimes another, but wherefo- 

 ever they fided, they were fure to be V idorious; 

 for the Negroes here had no Fire-Arm% nor did 

 they underftand their Ufe ; fb that at length thele 

 Fyrates became fb terrible to the Negroes, that if 

 two or or three of them were only feen on one Side, 

 when they were going to engage, the pppolite Side 

 would fiy without ftriking a Blow. 



By thefe Means they not only became feared, 

 but powerful; all the Prilbners of War, they took 

 to be their Slaves they married the moft beautiful 

 of the Negroe Women, not one or two, but as many 

 as they liked; fb that every one of them had as 

 great a Seraglio as the Grand Seignior at Conftami-^ 

 nofle : Their Slaves they employed in planting Rice, 

 in Fifhing Hunting, &c befides which, they had 

 abundance of others, who lived, as it v/ere, under 

 their Prote£tion, and to be fecure from the Diftur^ 

 bances or Attacks of their powerful Neighbours^ 

 thefe feemed to pay them a willing Homage. Now 

 they began to divide from one another, each living 



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