a Portuguese that was called Don Antonio,
which were all the Europeans on board, to take on with them; the first
he designed as a pilot, and the last as an interpreter. He also used the
men very cruelly, causing them to be hoisted up by the arms, and
drubbed with a naked cutlass, to force them to discover whether they had
money on board, and where it lay; but as they had neither gold nor
silver on board he got nothing by his cruelty; however, he took from
them a bale of pepper, and a bale of coffee, and so let them go.

A little time after he touched at Carawar, a place upon the same coast,
where, before he arrived, the news of what he had done to the Moorish
ship had reached them; for some of the English merchants there had
received an account of it from the owners, who corresponded with them;
wherefore, as soon as Kid came in, he was suspected to be the person who
committed this piracy, and one Mr. Harvey and Mr. Mason, two of the
English factory, came on board and asked for Parker and Antonio, the
Portuguese, but Kid denied that he knew any such persons, having secured
them both in a private place in the hold, where they were kept for seven
or eight days, that is till Kid sailed from thence.

However, the coast was alarmed, and a Portuguese man-of-war was sent out
to cruise. Kid met with her, and fought her about six hours, gallantly
enough; but finding her too strong to be taken, he quitted her, for he
was able to run away from her when he would. Then he went to a place
called Porco, where he watered the ship, and bought a number of hogs of
the natives to victual his company.

Soon after this he came up with a Moorish ship, the master whereof was a
Dutchman, called Schipper Mitchel, and chased her under French colors,
which, they observing, hoisted French colors too. When he came up with
her he hailed her in French, and they, having a Frenchman on board,
answered him in the same language; upon which he ordered them to send
their boat on board. They were obliged to do so, and having examined who
they were, and from whence they came, he asked the Frenchman, who was a
passenger, if he had a French pass for himself? The Frenchman gave him
to understand that he had. Then he told the Frenchman he must pass for
captain, and "by G--d," says he, "you are the captain." The Frenchman
durst not refuse doing as he would have him. The meaning of this was,
that he would seize the ship as fair prize, and as if she had belonged
t