forty eight Days, I arrived here October 26, almost naked and ſtarv’d, having been reduced to a Pint of Water a Day, and almost in deſpair of ever ſeeing Land, by Reaſon of the Calms we met with between the Coaſt of Arabia and Malabar.We had in all thirteen Men killed and twenty four wounded; and we were told, that we had deſtroyed about ninety or a hundred of the Pyrates. When they left us, they were about three hundred Whites and eighty Blacks in both Ships. I am perſuaded, had our Conſort the Greenwich done his Duty, we had deſtroyed both of them, and got two hundred thouſand Pounds for our Owners and ſelves; whereas to his deſerting us, the Loſs of the Caſſandra may juſtly be imputed. I have delivered all the Bales that were given me into the Company’s Warehouſe, for which the Governor and Council have ordered me a Reward. Our Governor, Mr. Boon, who is extreme kind and civil to me, has ordered me home with this Pacquet; but Captain Harvey, who had a prior Promiſe, being come in with the Fleet, goes in my room. The Governor hath promis’d me a Country Voyage, to help make me up my Loſſes, and would have me ſtay to go home with him next Year.
Captain Mackra certainly run a great Hazard, in going aboard the Pyrate, and began quickly to repent his Credulity; for though they had promiſed, that no Injury ſhould be done to his Perſon, he found their Words were not to be truſted; and it may be ſuppoſed, that nothing but the deſperate Circumſtances Captain Mackra imagined himſelf to be in, could have prevailed upon him to fling himſelf and Company into their Hands, perhaps not knowing how firmly the Natives of that Iſland were attach’d to the Engliſh Nation; for about 20 Years ago, Captain Cornwall, Commadore of an Engliſh Squadron, aſſiſted them againſt another Iſland called Mohilla, for which they have ever ſince communicated all the grateful Offices in their Power, inſomuch that it became a Pro-
