of Cloves and Nutmegs
mixed together, and strawed up and down, several books of fine white
Callicoa, several pieces of fine Muzlins, several pieces more of
flowered silk. He does not well remember what further was in it. He
had an invoice thereof in his other chest. All that was contained in
ye said Chest was bought by him and some given him at Madagascar.
Nothing thereof was taken in ye ship Quidah Merchant. He esteemed it
to be of greater value than all else that he left at Gardiner's Island
except ye Gold and Silver. There was neither Gold nor Silver in ye
Chest. It was fastened with a Padlock and nailed and corded about.

Further saith that he left at said Gardiner's Island a bundle of nine
or ten fine Indian quilts, some of ye silk with fringes and Tassels.

WM. KIDD.

The Earl of Bellomont was as keen as a bloodhound on the scent of
treasure and it is improbable that any of the Kidd plunder escaped his
search. He lost no time in the quest of that James Gillam whose chest
had been landed in Delaware Bay, and a singularly diverting episode is
related by Bellomont in one of his written reports to the Council of
Trade and Plantations:

"I gave you an account, Oct. 24th, of my taking Joseph Bradish and
Wetherly, and writ that I hoped in a little time to be able to send
News of my taking James Gillam, the Pyrate that killed Capt. Edgecomb,
commander of the _Mocha Frigate_ for the East India Co., and that with
his own hand, while the captain was asleep. Gillam is supposed to be
the man that encouraged the Ship's Company to turn pyrates, and the
ship has ever since been robbing in the Red Sea and Seas of India. If
I may believe the report of men lately come from Madagascar, she has
taken above 2,000,000 pounds sterling.

"I have been so lucky as to take James Gillam, and he is now in irons
in the gaol of this town. And at the same time we seized on Francis
Dole, in whose house he was harboured, who proved to be one of Hore's
crew. My taking of Gillam was so very accidental one would believe
there was a strange fatality in the man's stars. On Saturday, 11th
inst., late in the evening, I had a letter from Col. Sanford, Judge of
the Admiralty Court in Rhode Island, giving me an account that Gillam
had been there, but was come towards Boston a fortnight before, in
order to ship himself for some of the Islands, Jamaica or Barbadoes.

"I was in despair of finding the man. However, I sent for an honest
Cons