Of Captain Af'E R T. 6i 

 cially by thofe who had not: the Ufe of fcaling Lad- 

 ders : Over this Ditch there was one PafTage into 

 the Wood the Dwelling, which was a Hut, was 

 built in that Part of the Wood which the Prince, 

 who inhabited it, thought fit, but lb covered that 

 it could not be feen till you came at it ^ but the 

 fi;reateft Cunning lay in the PalTage whiclx lead to 

 the Hut, which was fo narrow, that no more than 

 one Perlbn could go a Breaft, and contrived in la 

 intricate a Manner, that it was a perfeS: Maze or 

 Labyrinth, it being round and round, with feveral 

 little crofs Ways, lb that a Perlbn that was not 

 well acquainted with the Way, might walk fever al 

 Hours round and crofs thefe Ways without being 

 able to find the Hut moreover all along the Sides 

 of thefe narrow Paths, certain large Thorns which 

 grew upon a Tree in that Country, were ftruck 

 into the Ground with their Points uppermoft, and 

 the Path it lelf being made crooked and ferpentine, 

 if a Man fliould attempt to come near the Hut at 

 Nigbt, he would certainly have ftruck upon thele 

 Thorns, tho* he had been provided with that Clue 

 which Ariadne gave to Thefeus when he entered the 

 Cave of the Minataur. 



Thus Tyrant like they lived, fearing and feared 

 by all ; and in this Scituation they were found by 

 Captain Woods Rogers^ when he went to Madagafcar^ 

 in the Deliciay a Ship of forty Guns, with a Deligii 

 of buying Slaves in order to fell to the Dutch at 

 Batavla or New Ho Hand : He happened to touch up*^ 

 oil a Part of the Ifland, ^here no Ship had beea 

 leen for feven or eight Years before, where he met 

 with fome of the Pyrates, at which Time, they 

 had been upon the llland above 25 Years, having 

 a large motly Generation of Children and Grand- 

 children defcended from them, there being about 

 thatTime^ eleven of them remaining alive. 



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