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three Dutch y two Frer^chy^ ^nd one of thsbfr own 

 Nation, 



England^ in going down the Coaft, took the Teter- 

 borough Galley of Brifloly Captain Owen \ and the F/- 

 Story^ Captain Ridout • the former they detained^ 

 but plundered the latter, and let her go. In Cafe 

 Corfo Road, they faw two Sail at Anchor, but be- ^ 

 fore they could reach them, they flippM their Ca- 

 bles and got clofe under Cafe Corfo Caftle^ thefe were 

 the Whydahy Captain Prince y and the Johuy Captain 

 Rider : The Py rates upon this made a fire Ship of 

 aVelTel they had lately taken, and attempted to 

 burn them, as tho' they had been a common Ene- 

 my, which if effe£ted, they could not have been 

 one Farthing the better for it ^ but the Caftle fir- 

 ing warmly upon them, they withdrew, and faiPd 

 down to Whydah Road, where they found another 

 Pyrate, one Captain la jBouchcy who getting thither 

 before England arrived, had foreftall'd the Market;, 

 and greatly difappointed their Brethren. 



Captain Englmdy after this Baulk, went into a 

 ' Harbour, cleaned his own Ship, and fitted up tha 

 Peterborough^ which he calfd the Fillory'^ they liv^d 

 there very wantonly for feveral Weeks, making 

 free with the Negroe Women, and committing 

 fuch outragious Afts, that they came to ' kh open 

 Rupture with the Natives, feveral of whom they 

 kiird, and one of theif Towns they fet on Fire. 



When the Py rates came out to Sea, they put it 

 to a Vote what Voyage to take, and the Majority 

 carrying it for the EaJl-'IndieSy they lhap'd their 

 Courfe accordingly, and arrived at Madagafcary the 

 Beginning of the Year 1720. They ftaid not long 

 there, but after taking in Water and Provifion^, 

 laii'd for the Coaft of Malabary which is a fine fruit- 

 ful Country in the Eaft-Indiesy in the Empire of 

 the Moguly but immediately fubje£t to its own Prin- 

 ces : It reaches from the Coaft of Canara to Cafe 



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