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 by thoe who had not the Ue of caling Ladders: Over this Ditch there was one Paage into the Wood; the Dwelling, which was a Hut, was built in that Part of the Wood which the Prince, who inhabited it, thought fit, but o covered that it could not be een till you came at it; but the greatet Cunning lay in the Paage which lead to the Hut, which was o narrow, that no more than one Peron could go a Breat, and contrived in o intricate a Manner, that it was a perfect Maze or Labyrinth, it being round and round, with everal little cros Ways, o that a Peron that was not well acquainted with the Way, might walk everal Hours round and cros thee Ways without being able to find the Hut; moreover all along the Sides of thee narrow Paths, certain large Thorns which grew upon a Tree in that Country, were truck into the Ground with their Points uppermot, and the Path it elf being made crooked and erpentine, if a Man hould attempt to come near the Hut at Night, he would certainly have truck upon thee Thorns, tho’ he had been provided with that Clue which Ariadne gave to Theeus when he entered the Cave of the Minataur.

Thus Tyrant like they lived, fearing and feared by all; and in this Scituation they were found by Captain Woods Rogers, when he went to Madagacar, in the Delicia, a Ship of forty Guns, with a Deign of buying Slaves in order to ell to the Dutch at Batavia or New-Holland: He happened to touch upon a Part of the Iland, where no Ship had been een for even or eight Years before, where he met with ome of the Pyrates, at which Time, they had been upon the Iland above 25 Years, having a large motly Generation of Children and Grand-Children decended from them, there being about that Time, eleven of them remaining alive. Upon