Chapter IV: Of Captain Avery and His Crew

Romantic reports of his greatness--His birth--Is mate
of a Bristol man--For what voyage designed--Tampers
with the seamen--Forms a plot for carrying off the
ship--Executes it, and how--The pirates take a rich
ship belonging to the Great Mogul--The Great Mogul
threatens the English settlements--The pirates
steer their course back for Madagascar--Call a
council--Put all the treasure of board of Avery’s
ship--Avery and his crew treacherously leave
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--From thence to Ireland--Avery afraid
to expose his diamonds to sale--Goes over to
England--Puts his wealth into merchant’s hands of
Bristol--Changes his name--Lives at Bideford--The
merchants send him no supplies--Importunes
them--Goes privately to Bristol--They threaten
to discover him--Goes over to Ireland--Solicits
them from thence--Is very poor--Works his passage
over to Plymouth--Walks to Bideford--Dies a
beggar--An account of Avery’s confederates--Their
settlement at Madagascar--They meet other
pirates--An account of them--The pirates deposed,
and why--Marooned on the Island Mauritius--Some
account of that island--The adventures of the
company continued--Angria, an Indian pirate--His
strength by land and sea--The East India Company’s
wars with him--The pirates go to the island of
Melinda--Their barbarous behaviour there--Hear
of Captain Mackra’s designs against them--Their
reflections thereupon--Sail for Cochin, a Dutch
settlement--The pirates and the Dutch very good
friends--Mutual presents made between the pirates
and the Governor--The pirates in a fright--Almost
starved--Take a prize of an immense value--Take
an Ostend East Indiaman--A short description
of Madagascar--A prodigious dividend made by
the pirates--A fellow’s way of increasing his
diamonds--Some of the pirates quit, and join the
remains of Avery--The proceedings of the men-of-war
in those parts--Some Dutchmen petition to be
among the pirates--The pirates divided in their
measures--Break up--What became of them 384

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

(1) MORGAN RECRUITING FOR THE ATTACK ON PORTO BELLO (from
a drawing by Howard Pyle) _Frontispiece_

(2) BARTHOLOMEW PORTUGUES (from the portrait in “De
Americaensche Zee Roovers”) _To face p._ 85

(3) LOLONOIS (from the portrait in “De Americaensche Zee
Roovers”) _To face p._ 96

(4) CAPTAIN HENRY MORGAN (from the portrait in “De
Americaensche Zee Roovers”) _To face p._ 178

(5) CAPTAIN TEACH (from the engraving in the second edition
of Johnson’s “General History of the Pyrates”)
_To face p._ 239

(6) CAPTAIN BARTHOLOMEW ROBERTS (from the engraving in the
second edition of Johnson’s “General History of the
Pyrates”) _To face p._ 300