have a Mind to make one of us, we will receive you, and if you’ll turn ſober, and mind your Buſineſs, perhaps in Time I may make you one of my Lieutenants, if not, here’s a Boat a-long-ſide, and you ſhall be ſet aſhore.
The Captain was glad to hear this, and therefore accepted of his Offer, and the whole Crew being called up, to know who was willing to go on Shore with the Captain, and who to ſeek their Fortunes with the reſt; there were not above five or ſix who were willing to quit this Enterprize; wherefore they were put into the Boat with the Captain that Minute, and made their Way to the Shore as well as they could.
They proceeded on their Voyage to Madagaſcar, but I do not find they took any Ships in their Way; when they arrived at the N. E. Part of that Iſland, they found two Sloops at Anchor, who, upon ſeeing them, ſlip’d their Cables and run themſelves aſhore, the Men all landing, and running into the Woods; theſe were two Sloops which the Men had run away with from the Weſt-Indies, and ſeeing Avery, they ſuppoſed him to be ſome Frigate ſent to take them, and therefore not being of Force to engage him, they did what they could to ſave themſelves.
He gueſſed where they were, and ſent ſome of his Men on Shore to let them know they were Friends, and to offer they might join together for their common Safety; the Sloops Men were well arm’d, and had poſted themſelves in a Wood, with Centinels juſt on the out-ſide, to obſerve whether the Ship landed her Men to purſue them, and they obſerving only two or three Men to come towards them without Arms, did not oppoſe them, but having challenged them, and they anſwering they were Friends, they lead them to their Body, where they delivered their Meſſage; at firſt, they apprehended it was a Stratagem to decoy them on Board,
