127 Of Capt. England. 



forty eight Daysy I arrived here OEkohet 26, atmoB naked 

 and ftarv dy haruing been reduced to a Tint of Water a Day^ 

 and almoB in defpair of ever feeing Land, by Re af on of the 

 Calms we met with between the Coalt of Arabia and Mala- 

 bar. We had in all thirteen Men killed and twenty 



four wounded ^ and we were told, that we had dcflroyed 

 about ninety or a hundred of the Pyrates. When they left 

 us, they were about three hundred Whites and eighty Blacks 

 in both Ships. I am perfuaded, had our Gonfort the Green-f 

 wich done his Duty, we had defiroyed both of them, and 

 got two hundred thoufand Pounds for our Owners and 

 felves 5 whereas to his deferting us, the Lofs of the Calfan^r 

 dx2i may juftly be imputed. I have delivered all the Bales 

 that were given me into the Company s Warehoufe, for which 

 the Governor and Council have ordered me a Reward. 

 Our Governor, Mr. Boon, who is extreme kind and civil 

 to me, has ordered me home with this Pacquet ^ but Captain 

 Harvey, who had a prior Promife, being come in with the 

 Fleet, goes in my room. The Governor hath promised me a 

 Country Voyage, to help make me up my LoJfeSy and would 

 have me Jlay to go home with him next Tear. 



Captain Mackr^a certainly run a great Hazard, 

 in going aboard the Pyrate, and began quickly 

 to repent his Cred\ility ^ for though they had pro- 

 miled, that no Injury ihould be done to his Per- 

 Ibn, he found their Words were not to be truft* 

 ed \ and it may be fuppofed, that nothing but the 

 defperate Circumftances Captain Mackra imagined 

 himfelf to be in, could have prevailed upon him 

 to fling himfelf and Company into their Hands, 

 perhaps not knowing how firmly the Natives of 

 that Ifland were attached to the EngUJh Nation; 

 for about 20 Years ago, Captain G?r;?n?^//, Comma- 

 dore of an Englijl) Squadron, aflifted them againft 

 another Ifland called Mohllla, for which they hav^e 

 ever fince communicated all the grateful Offices 

 in their Power, infomuch that it became a Pro- 

 verb, 



