belonging to the French Factory there and Gunner of said
ship, came on board as Master, and when he came on board the Narrator
caused the English Colours to be hoysted, and the said Master was
surprised, and said "You are all English," and asked which was the
Captain, whom when he (the Frenchman) saw, he said, "Here is a good
prize" and delivered him the French pass.

And that with the said two Prizes, he (the Narrator) sailed for the
Port of St. Maries in Madagascar, and sailing thither the _Galley_ was
so leaky that they feared she would have sunk every hour, and it
required eight men every two glasses to keep her free, and they were
forced to woold her round with Cables to keep her together, and with
much ado carried her into port.... And about the 6th day of May, the
lesser Prize was haled into the careening island or key (the other not
having arrived), and ransacked and sunk by the mutinous men who
threatened the Narrator and the men that would not join with them, to
burn and sink the other Ship that they might not go home and tell the
news.

And that when he arrived in the said port, there was a Pyrate Ship,
called the _Moca Frigat_, at an Anchor, Robert Culliford, Commander
thereof, who with his men left the same and ran into the woods, and the
Narrator proposed to his men to take the same, having sufficient power
and authority so to do, but the mutinous crew told him if he offered
the same they would rather fire two guns into him than one into the
other; and thereupon 97 deserted and went into the _Moca Frigat_, and
sent into the woods for the said Pyrates and brought the said Culliford
and his men on board again. And all the time she (the _Moca Frigat_)
staid in the said Port, which was for the space of 4 or 5 days, the
said deserters, sometimes in great numbers, came on board the
_Adventure Galley_ and her prize and carried away the great gun,
powder, shot, arms, sails, anchors, etc., and what they pleased, and
threatened several times to murder the Narrator (as he was informed and
advised to take care of himself), which they designed in the night to
effect, but was prevented by his locking himself in his Cabbin and
securing himself with barricading the same with bales of Goods, and
having about forty Small arms besides Pistols ready charged, kept them
out. Their wickedness was so great that after they had plundered and
ransacked sufficiently, they went four miles off to one Edward Welche's
house where h