Chap. I. Of Captain Avery, and his Crew

ROmantick Reports of his Greatness, , . His Birth, . Is Mate of a Bristol Man, , For what Voyage design’d, ib. Tampers with the Seamen, ib. Forms a Plot for carrying off the Ship, , . Executes it, and how, ib. The Pyrates take a rich Ship belonging to the Great Mogul, . The Great Mogul threaten the English Settlements, . The Pyrates steer their Course back for Madagascar, . Call a Council. Put all the Treasure on Board of Avery’s Ship, ib. Avery and his Crew treacherously leaves his Confederates; go to the Isle of Providence in the West-Indies, . Sell the Ship, go to North-America in a Sloop, . They disperse, Avery goes to New-England, ib. From thence to Ireland, ib. Avery afraid to expose his Diamonds to sale. Goes over to England, ib. Puts his Wealth into Merchants Hands, of Bristol, . Changes his Name. Lives at Biddiford, ib. The Merchants send him no Supplies, ib. Importunes them. Goes privately to Bristol, they threaten to discover him, ib. Goes over to Ireland, sollicites them from thence, . Is very poor, works his Passage over to Plymouth, walks to Biddiford. Dies a Beggar, ib. An Account of Avery’s Confederates, ib. Their Settlement at Madagascar, . They meet other Pyrates; an Account of them, ib. The Pyrates arrive to great Power. The Inhabitants described, . Their Policy, Government, &c. Places describ’d, . The Arrival of Captain Woods Rogers at that Part of the Island, . Their Design of surprizing his Ship, . One of these Princes formerly a Waterman on the Thames, . Their Secretaries, Men of no Learning. Could neither write nor read, ib.