arriages.

Our men, seeing they stood after us, [wee] could perceive their
countinances to be dejected. Wee cheared them what wee could, and, for
their encouragement, the Captain and wee of our proper money did give
them, to every man and boy, three dollars each, which animated them, and
promised to give them as much more if engaged againe, and that if [wee]
took the ship, for every prisoner five pounds and besides a gratuity
from the Gentlemen Employers. Wee read the King's Proclamation about
Every, &c., and the Right Honble. Company's.

About 9 o'clock the 10th July wee perceived the rogue made from us, soe
wee gave the Almighty our most condigne thanks for his mercy that
delivered us not to the worst of our enimies, for truly he [the pirate]
was very strong, having at least an hundred Europeans on board, 34 gunns
mounted, besides 10 pattererers and 2 small mortars in the head; his
lower tier, some of them, as wee judged, sixteen and eighteen pounders.
We lay as near our course as could, and next day saw land on our
starboard side which was the Maine [Land]. Kept on our way.

The 12th July dyed the Boatswaine's boy, George Mopp, in the morning.
Friday the 16th do. in the evening dyed the Gunner's boy, Thomas
Matthews. Sunday the 18th at anchor two leagues from the Pillo Sumbelong
[Pulo Sembilan] Islands dyed the Barber, Andrew Miller. Do. the 31st
dyed the Cheife Mate, Mr. John Smith. The other two are yet in a very
deplorable condition and wee are ashore here to refresh them.... The
Chinese further report ... the _Mocco_ was at the Maldives and creaned
[careened]; there they gave an end to the life of their commanding rogue
Stout, who they murdered for attempting to run away.

FOOTNOTES:

[15] From _The Indian Antiquary_, Vol. 49.

JADDI THE MALAY PIRATE[16]

Long before that action with the English man-of-war which drove me to
Singapore, I sailed in a fine fleet of prahus belonging to the Rajah of
Johore [Sultan Mahmad Shah]. We were all then very rich--ah! such
numbers of beautiful wives and such feasting!--but, above all, we had a
great many most holy men in our force! When the proper monsoon came, we
proceeded to sea to fight the Bugismen [of Celebes] and Chinamen bound
from Borneo and the Celebes to Java; for you must remember our Rajah was
at war with them. (Jadee always maintained that the proceedings in which
he had been engaged partook of a purely warlike, and not of a piratical
character.)