* Of Cap. Engl ANiy% 1 5^ 



Here they ftaid ^above four Months^ carreened 

 both their Ships, and took their Piverfioas with 

 Security, till they had expended all their Proyi- 

 iions, and then put ^ to Sea, leaving conliderable 

 Quantities of Muflin?, Chintzes, and fuch Goods' 

 behindy to the ha^lf ftarved Jputch Men, which en- 

 abled them to makef good Pennyworths ^to the next 

 that caj^e, to. whptp tiiey bartered for Provifions, 

 at the Rate of jtjiree Farthings 2in E?igMjh Yard. 



They left Delagoa the latter End of D^r^w^^^r 

 i'7?Hj, but not agreeing where, or how to proceed^ 

 they -concluded topart;, fothofe who were for coa- 

 tinuing that fort of Life, went on Board the Portu*^ 

 guefe Prize J and fleered for Madagafcar to their 

 Friends,, with whom lihear they are now fettled;, 

 and the reft took the Cajfandra and failed for the. 

 Spamjb Wefl'Indies. The Mermaid Man of War hap- 

 pening then to be down on the Main with a Convoy^ 

 about 50 Leagues front thefe Pyrites, would have 

 gone and attacked them ^ but on a Coafultatlom' 

 of . the Mafters, whofe Safety he was particularly^'^ 

 to regard, they agreed their own Proteftion was of 

 more Service than deftroyxng the Pyrate, and fo: 

 the Commander wa,s mivyiUingly withheld. He dif-: 

 patched a Sloop to^Ww^V^, with the News, which^ 

 brought down the Lan^efton^ only ^.D^lj^ or two, too 

 late, they having juft before he came, furrendered: 

 with all their Riches, to the Governor of Part&: 

 Beth. 



Here they ilite down to fpend the Fruits of their 

 diflioneft Induttry, dividing the Spoil and Plunder 

 of Nations among themfelves, without the leaft 

 Remorfe or Compunftion, iatisfying their Conlci- 

 ence with this Salvo, that other People would 

 have done as much, had they the like Opportu- 

 nitiess. I ca;i't fay, but that if they had known 

 what was doing in England^ at the fame Time by 

 the Soiffh'^td Directors, and their Directors, they 



would 



