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 teered, reolving to live on Shore and enjoy what they got.

As for Tew himelf, he with a few others in a hort Time went off to Rhode Iland, from whence he made his Peace.

Thus have we accounted for the Company our Pyrates met with here.

It mut be oberved that the Natives of Madagacar are a kind of Negroes, they differ from thoe of Guiney in their Hair, which is long, and their Complexion is not o good a Jet; they have innumerable little Princes among them, who are continually making War upon one another; their Prioners are their Slaves, and they either ell them, or put them to death, as they pleae: When our Pyrates firt ettled amongt them, their Alliance was much courted by thee Princes, o they ometimes joined one, ometimes another, but whereoever they ided, they were ure to be Victorious; for the Negroes here had no Fire-Arms, nor did they undertand their Ue; o that at length thee Pyrates became o terrible to the Negroes, that if two or or three of them were only een on one Side, when they were going to engage, the oppoite Side would fly without triking a Blow.

By thee Means they not only became feared, but powerful; all the Prioners of War, they took to be their Slaves; they married the mot beautiful of the Negroe Women; not one or two, but as many as they liked; o that every one of them had as great a Seraglio as the Grand Seignior at Contantinople: Their Slaves they employed in planting Rice, in Fihing, Hunting, &c. beides which, they had abundance of others, who lived, as it were, under their Protection, and to be ecure from the Diturbances or Attacks of their powerful Neighbours; thee eemed to pay them a willing Homage. Now they began to divide from one another, each living with