Camorin, which is between 7° 30, and 12° North Lattitude, and in about 75° Eaſt Longitude, counting from the Meridian of London. The old Natives are Pagans, but there are a great Number of Mahometans inhabiting among them, who are Merchants, and generally rich. On the ſame Coaſt, but in a Province to the Northward lies Goa, Surat, Bombay, where the Engliſh, Dutch, and Portugueſe have Settlements.
Hither our Pyrates came, having made a Tour of half the Globe, as the Pſalmiſt ſays of the Devils, Going about like roaring Lions, ſeeking whom they might devour.
They took ſeveral Country Ships, that is, Indian Veſſels, and one European, a Dutch Ship, which they exchanged for one of their own, and then came back to Madagaſcar.
They ſent ſeveral of their Hands on Shore with Tents, Powder, and Shot, to kill Hogs, Veniſon, and ſuch other freſh Proviſion as the Iſland afforded, and a Whim came into their Heads to ſeek out for the Remains of Avery’s Crew, whom they knew to be ſettled ſomewhere in the Iſland.Accordingly ſome of them travell’d ſeveral Days Journey, without hearing any Intelligence of them, and ſo were forc’d to return with the Loſs of their Labour, for theſe Men were ſettled on the other Side of the Iſland, as has been taken Notice of under the Chapter of Avery.
They ſtay’d not long here, after they had clean’d their Ships, but ſailing to Juanna; they met two Engliſh, and one Oſtend India Men, coming out of that Harbour, one of which, after a deſperate Reſiſtance, they took; the Particulars of which Action is at length related in the following Letter, wrote by the Captain from Bombay.
