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forty eight Days, I arrived here October, almost naked and tarv’d, having been reduced to a Pint of Water a Day, and almost in depair of ever eeing Land, by Reaon of the Calms we met with between the Coat of Arabia and Malabar.We had in all thirteen Men killed and twenty four wounded; and we were told, that we had detroyed 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 peruaded, had our Conort the Greenwich done his Duty, we had detroyed both of them, and got two hundred thouand Pounds for our Owners and elves; whereas to his deerting us, the Los of the Caandra may jutly be imputed. I have delivered all the Bales that were given me into the Company’s Warehoue, 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 Promie, being come in with the Fleet, goes in my room. The Governor hath promis’d me a Country Voyage, to help make me up my Loes, and would have me tay to go home with him next Year.

Captain Mackra certainly run a great Hazard, in going aboard the Pyrate, and began quickly to repent his Credulity; for though they had promied, that no Injury hould be done to his Peron, he found their Words were not to be truted; and it may be uppoed, that nothing but the deperate Circumtances Captain Mackra imagined himelf to be in, could have prevailed upon him to fling himelf and Company into their Hands, perhaps not knowing how firmly the Natives of that Iland were attach’d to the Englih Nation; for about 20 Years ago, Captain Cornwall, Commadore of an Englih Squadron, aited them againt another Iland called Mohilla, for which they have ever ince communicated all the grateful Offices in their Power, inomuch that it became a verb,