Indian Antiquary Vol 48

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 223

DECEMBER, 1919]
EPISODES OF PIRACY IN THE EASTERN SEAS
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and away they went. Wee made it our business to gett np to Tymbolan by wading upon the corally Books, sometimes up to the knees, then at once to the neck in water, bare foot and bare legged. At last by Divine Providence came a Fishing boat that call'd unto us and took us in, carried us unto the said Island, where wee continued six weeks, was kindly used by the inhabitants before wee could get to Roe [? Rhio) in the Straights of Mallaoca, where we continued six months before wee could find an opportunity of goeing thither [? further], by reason they were embroyled in wart with the Dutch and all their neighbouring Princes, from whence they fled to Johore and wee with them..
"A Cessation of Armes hapening, a Dutch sloop came there, upon whom three of us embark'd for Mallacca, where at Johore was left three of our Company whome wee suspected would turn Mallains or Mussullmen, viz., Thomas Steele, Matthew Curtis, Antony Budart. Ourselves arriv'd safe at Mallacca, viz., H. Watson, George Robinson, Francis Cooke, where found the Pearle Friggatt, Captain (James) Peryman Commander, and Mr. (John) Hill,61 who had bin Ambassadore to Syam, with whome we went to Fort St. George, where wee, the three last nam'd, gave in our Narrative upon onth to tho Honble. Governour (Elihu Yale) and Sir John Bigs &o."63 N.B.Here follows a lis; of those of Captain Eaton's men who took the Good Hope.
" Eaton's men. Walter Beard, hanged in Guinea. Antony Budert. Nicholas Burton.
Thos. Steele. Richard Web.
Job Linch, died at Johore. Richard Potter.
Matthew Curtis. Jobp Dunkston.
Francis Cook. Job Parnell.
Lawrence France, whose wife was banged Mercus, killed by Malayers, Carpenter. at Bombay, killed by Malayers.
George Robertson, an honest man. Cornelius Patterson, a Dutchman. Dunkin Maokindes (Captain Herop's mate Henryk, a Dutchman. i turned rogue) Langed in Guinea.
James Williamson. Thos killed by the Portuguese."
(Narrative by Charles Hopkins, dated 30 April 1687. India Office Records, O.C. 5582
. and narrative by John Watson, ibid., 0. 0. 5583.1
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PIRATE BASE AT ST. MARY'S, MADAGASCAR, 1690-1898. It has been mentioned that Mackintosh took his ship to St. Augustine's in Madagascar. That island had already become a base for European interlopers and pirates who intended to cruise in the Red Sea or Indian Ocean. Madagascar and the islands round its shores were admirably suited for this purpose, but the ports which were chiefly frequented by the pirates were Port St. Augustine (St. Augustine's Bay), Port or Fort Dolphin (Dauphin) and the Island of St. Mary. As these pirates were chiefly equipped in Now
Seo Madras Public Consultations, 22 August 1687. .
Sir John Bige, lately Recorder of Portamouth," was appointed Judge-Advocato at Fort St. George in 1687 and arrived at Madras 22 July 1687. (Love's Vestiges of Old Madras, I, 493.)