134 Pf ^^P^- ^¥9^^^^^ 



In this Condition they arrived at the Ifland 

 of Mauritius^ about the Middle of F^&rz^^ry^ iheath- 

 ed and refitted the ViBory^ and on the 5th ot ^pn7 

 failed again, leaving this terrible Infcription 011 

 one of the Wal ls. Left this PUee the of April, 

 to go to Madagalcar/<7r Limesy and this, leaft (like 

 Lawyers and Men of Bufinefs) any Vilits fliould be 

 paid in their Abfence : However, they did not fail 

 direftly for Madagafcar^ but the Ifland Majcrmne^ 

 and luckily as Rogues could wifli, they found at 

 their Arrival on the ^thy i;\ 'Ponuguefe, Ship at An- 

 chor, of '70 Guns, but moft of them thrown over-^ 

 board, her Mafts loft, and ib much difabled by a 

 violent Storm they had met with in the Latitude 

 of 1 3^ South, thatihe became a Prize to the Py- 

 rates, with very little or no Reliftance, and a glo- 

 rious one indeed, having the Conde de Ericeira^Viceroy 

 pfGoay who made that fruitlefs Expedition againft 

 jingria^ the Indian^ and feveral other Pa{rengers on 

 Board who, as they could not be ignorant of the 

 Treafure Ihe had in, did aflfert, that in the lingle 

 Article of Diamonds, there was to the Value of 

 between three and four Millions of Dollars* 



The Vice-Roy, who came on Board tt^t Morn- 

 ing, in Expectation of the Ships being Eriglijhy was 

 inade a Prilbner, and obliged to ranfbme but in 

 Confideration of his great Lofs, (the Prize being. 

 Part his own,) they agreed after {bme Demurrings, 

 to accept of 2000 Dollars, and let him and the; 

 other Prifoners afhore, with Promifes to leave a 

 Ship that they might Tranfport them fe Ives, hecaule 

 the Ifland was not thought in a Condition to maiutaJn 

 fo great a Number ; and tho' they had learned 

 from them, the Account- of an Ofiender be^T^g to 

 jLeewarc! of the Ifland, which they took on. that 

 Infoi-mation, (being formerly the Greyhound Galley 

 of Xc?iv/^(?^^ and could conveniently have comply 'd 

 with fo reafbnable a Requeft yet they fent the 



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