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Rh have a Mind to make one of us, we will receive you, and if you’ll turn ober, and mind your Buines, perhaps in Time I may make you one of my Lieutenants, if not, here’s a Boat a-long-ide, and you hall be et ahore.

The Captain was glad to hear this, and therefore accepted of his Offer, and the whole Crew being called up, to know who was willing to go on Shore with the Captain, and who to eek their Fortunes with the ret; there were not above five or ix who were willing to quit this Enterprize; wherefore they were put into the Boat with the Captain that Minute, and made their Way to the Shore as well as they could.

They proceeded on their Voyage to Madagacar, but I do not find they took any Ships in their Way; when they arrived at the N. E. Part of that Iland, they found two Sloops at Anchor, who, upon eeing them, lip’d their Cables and run themelves ahore, the Men all landing, and running into the Woods; thee were two Sloops which the Men had run away with from the Wet-Indies, and eeing Avery, they uppoed him to be ome Frigate ent to take them, and therefore not being of Force to engage him, they did what they could to ave themelves.

He gueed where they were, and ent ome of his Men on Shore to let them know they were Friends, and to offer they might join together for their common Safety; the Sloops Men were well arm’d, and had poted themelves in a Wood, with Centinels jut on the out-ide, to oberve whether the Ship landed her Men to purue them, and they oberving only two or three Men to come towards them without Arms, did not oppoe them, but having challenged them, and they anwering they were Friends, they lead them to their Body, where they delivered their Meage; at firt, they apprehended it was a Stratagem to decoy them on Board, Rh