^ A VISIT TO THE INDIAN ARUHll^ELAOO- 



witliout dreading them," — and fiaaliy that he, the said 

 Captain, made one sucli voyage, and bow lives to tell it. 

 He adcls, however, " to be sure thk was in the bad seuson 

 when their prahus do not venture out." 



Surely here is something of an admission that they are 

 reptded pu-atea, who have a " season " for showing them- 

 selves. But to be seen by armed frigates is not tlieir 

 way of doing business, "They fear extremely" says 

 Captain Kloff, " the armed ships of the Government 

 and another European, one Alexander Broa^, who liad 

 been compelled as a captive to sei've in a pirate fleet, 

 describes their general habit : — We Imd orders to go and 

 cruise to await merchant-vessels. We had been four 

 days in ambush, when we perceived the Steum, man- 

 of-war> of the Colonial Navy. Wo concealed ourselves 

 immediately behind some islands. But when the dangm* 

 was passed, we resumed our statioii, and captured a 

 pnihu laden with rice," Thus it is that they go sneaking 

 about in bawbling vessels/' 



* For shallow draft, aiid balk, luipiisabb*" 



and surely Captain Young could not have expected to see 

 such gentry unless ho had been employed to look for them, 

 Occaaiotially, indeed, some Conuaj> or Laka of the Archi- 

 pelago gives a gallant captain ni\ opportunity to enact the 

 Duke OiisiNO I— 



" NoUtbLo pimlc ! thou eallrwat«r thiisf 1 

 iVhal fduliRb bolditt^ hrongbt lliea to tkctr mttm^, 

 Whom LUou, in temiB so hloody and m dear, 

 lliAL made Ihiac cciciiLlt!!^ 1 " 



