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 three Dutch, two French, and one of their own Nation.

England, in going down the Coat, took the Peterborough Galley of Britol, Captain Owen; and the Victory, Captain Ridout; the former they detained, but plundered the latter, and let her go. In Cape Coro Road, they aw two Sail at Anchor, but before they could reach them, they lipp’d their Cables and got cloe under Cape Coro Catle, thee were the Whydah, Captain Prince, and the John, Captain Rider: The Pyrates upon this made a fire Ship of a Veel they had lately taken, and attempted to burn them, as tho’ they had been a common Enemy, which if effected, they could not have been one Farthing the better for it; but the Catle firing warmly upon them, they withdrew, and ail’d down to Whydah Road, where they found another Pyrate, one Captain la Bouche, who getting thither before England arrived, had foretall’d the Market, and greatly diappointed their Brethren.

Captain England, after this Baulk, went into a Harbour, clean’d his own Ship, and fitted up the Peterborough, which he call’d the Victory; they liv’d there very wantonly for everal Weeks, making free with the Negroe Women, and committing uch outragious Acts, that they came to an open Rupture with the Natives, everal of whom they kill’d, and one of their Towns they et on Fire.

When the Pyrates came out to Sea, they put it to a Vote what Voyage to take, and the Majority carrying it for the Eat-Indies, they hap’d their Coure accordingly, and arrived at Madagacar, the Beginning of the Year 1720. They taid not long there, but after taking in Water and Proviions, ail’d for the Coat of Malabar, which is a fine fruitful Country in the Eat-Indies, in the Empire of the Mogul, but immediately ubject to its own Princes: It reaches from the Coat of Canara to   Rh