Of Captain AVETtT. 6^ 



the Men went afliore, they were for inveigling them, 

 and drawing them into a Plot, for feizing the Cap- 

 tain and fecuring the reft of the Men under Hat- 

 ches, when they fhould have the Night-Watch, 

 prom'fing a Signal to come on Board to join them j 

 propofi. g, if they fucceeded, to go a Pyrating to- 

 gether, not doubting but with that Ship they 

 Ihould be able to take any Thing they met on the 

 Sea : Put the Captain obferving an Intimacy growl- 

 ing betwixt them and fome of his Men, thought 

 it could be for no good, he therefore broke it off 

 in Time, not fuffering them fo much as to talk to- 

 ge*-her ^ and when he fent a Boat on Shore with an 

 Officer to treat wth them about the Sale of Slaves, 

 the Crew remained on Board the Boat, and no Man 

 was fuffered to talk with them, but the Peribn de* 

 puted by him for that Purpofe. 



Before he failed away, and they found that no- 

 thing was to be done, they confeffed all the Defigns 

 they had formed againft him. Thus he left them 

 as he found them, in a great deal of dirty State 

 and Royalty, but with fewer Subjefts than they 

 had, having, as we oblerved, fold many of them ; 

 and if Ambition be the darling Pafiion of Men, no 

 doubt they were happy. One of thefe great Prin- 

 ces had formerly been a Waterman upon the 

 Thames^ where having committed a Murder, he fled 

 to the Weft-Indies^ and was of the Number of thofe 

 who run away with the Sloops-, the reft had been 

 allforemaft Men, nor was there a Man amongft: 

 theni, who could either read or write, and yet 

 their Secretaries of State had no more Learning 

 than themfelves. This is all the Account we can 

 give of thefe Kings of Madagafcar^ fome of whom 

 it is probable are reigning to this Day. 



C ^ A P. 



