ſteered, reſolving to live on Shore and enjoy what they got.
As for Tew himſelf, he with a few others in a ſhort Time went off to Rhode Iſland, from whence he made his Peace.
Thus have we accounted for the Company our Pyrates met with here.
It muſt be obſerved that the Natives of Madagaſcar are a kind of Negroes, they differ from thoſe of Guiney in their Hair, which is long, and their Complexion is not ſo good a Jet; they have innumerable little Princes among them, who are continually making War upon one another; their Priſoners are their Slaves, and they either ſell them, or put them to death, as they pleaſe: When our Pyrates firſt ſettled amongſt them, their Alliance was much courted by theſe Princes, ſo they ſometimes joined one, ſometimes another, but whereſoever they ſided, they were ſure to be Victorious; for the Negroes here had no Fire-Arms, nor did they underſtand their Uſe; ſo that at length theſe Pyrates became ſo terrible to the Negroes, that if two or or three of them were only ſeen on one Side, when they were going to engage, the oppoſite Side would fly without ſtriking a Blow.
By theſe Means they not only became feared, but powerful; all the Priſoners of War, they took to be their Slaves; they married the moſt beautiful of the Negroe Women; not one or two, but as many as they liked; ſo that every one of them had as great a Seraglio as the Grand Seignior at Conſtantinople: Their Slaves they employed in planting Rice, in Fiſhing, Hunting, &c. beſides which, they had abundance of others, who lived, as it were, under their Protection, and to be ſecure from the Diſturbances or Attacks of their powerful Neighbours; theſe ſeemed to pay them a willing Homage. Now they began to divide from one another, each living
