Page:A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time (1724).djvu/144

 In this Condition they arrived at the Iland of Mauritius, about the Middle of February, heathed and refitted the Victory, and on the 5th of April ailed again, leaving this terrible Incription on one of the Walls. and this, leat (like Lawyers and Men of Buines) any Viits hould be paid in their Abence: However, they did not ail directly for Madagacar, but the Iland Macarine, and luckily as Rogues could wih, they found at their Arrival on the 8th, a Portuguee Ship at Anchor, of 70 Guns, but mot of them thrown overboard, her Mats lot, and o much diabled by a violent Storm they had met with in the Latitude of 13° South, that he became a Prize to the Pyrates, with very little or no Reitance, and a glorious one indeed, having the Conde de Ericeira, Viceroy of Goa, who made that fruitles Expedition againt Angria, the Indian, and everal other Paengers on Board; who, as they could not be ignorant of the Treaure he had in, did aert, that in the ingle Article of Diamonds, there was to the Value of between three and four Millions of Dollars.

The Vice-Roy, who came on Board that Morning, in Expectation of the Ships being Englih, was made a Prioner, and obliged to ranome; but in Conideration of his great Los, (the Prize being Part his own,) they agreed after ome Demurrings, to accept of 2000 Dollars, and et him and the other Prioners ahore, with Promies to leave a Ship that they might Tranport themelves, becaue the Iland was not thought in a Condition to maintain o great a Number; and tho’ they had learned from them, the Account of an Otender being to Leeward of the Iland, which they took on that Information, (being formerly the Greyhound Galley of London,) and could conveniently have comply’d with o reaonable a Requet; yet they ent the Otender