ock
Island.

Signed, (his mark)
EDWARD (E* D.) DAVIS.

In Delaware Bay Kidd bought stores, and five of the people of Lewes
were thrown into jail by the Pennsylvania authorities for having traded
with him. Thence he sailed for Long Island Sound, entered it from the
eastward end, and made for New York, cautiously anchoring in Oyster
Bay, nowadays sedulously avoided by malefactors of great wealth. It
was his purpose to open negotiations with Bellomont at long range,
holding his treasure as an inducement for a pardon. From Oyster Bay he
sent a letter to a lawyer in New York, James Emmot who had before then
defended pirates, and also a message to his wife. Emmot was asked to
serve as a go-between, and he hastened to join Kidd on the sloop,
explaining that Bellomont was in Boston. Thereupon the _Antonio_
weighed anchor and sailed westward as far as Narragansett Bay where
Emmot landed and went overland to find Bellomont.

[1] Governor Henry Sloughter.

[2] Prizes.

[3] Prizes.

[4] Anguilla, or Snake Island, is a small island of the Leeward Group
of the West Indies, considerably east of Porto Rico, and near St.
Martin. It belongs to England.

[5] Madagascar.

CHAPTER III

CAPTAIN KIDD, HIS TREASURE[1]

"You captains brave and bold, hear our cries, hear our cries,
You captains brave and bold, hear our cries.
You captains brave and bold, though you seem uncontrolled,
Don't for the sake of gold lose your souls, lose your souls,
Don't for the sake of gold lose your souls."
(_From the old Kidd ballad._)

The negotiations between Kidd and the Earl of Bellomont were no more
creditable to the royal governor than to the alleged pirate. Already
the noble partners in England were bombarded with awkward questions
concerning the luckless enterprise, and Bellomont, anxious to clear
himself and his friends, was for getting hold of Kidd and putting him
in Boston jail at the earliest possible moment. He dared not reveal
the true status of affairs to Kidd by means of correspondence lest that
wary bird escape him, and he therefore tried to coax him nearer in a
letter sent back in care of Emmot, that experienced legal adviser of
pirates in distress. This letter of Bellomont was dated June 19, 1699,
and had this to say:

_Captain Kidd:_

Mr. Emmot came to me last Tuesday night late, telling me he came from
you, but was shy of telling me where he parted with you, nor did I
press him