carried to sell them, in anno 1704, he killed above 500 of them by
carousing, although they took his ship and cargo as a present from him,
and his men entered, most of them into the society of the pirates."


[1] This was probably a village near Ras Mabber, about one hundred and
sixty-five miles south of Cape Guardafui.

[2] In ships of this class the quartermaster was next in importance to the
captain or master. The incident refers to the death of Moore, the
gunner of the _Adventure_, who was killed by Kidd in a fit of anger
for saying that Kidd had ruined them all. The killing of Moore was one
of the indictments against Kidd at his trial.

[3] Warren had returned from his first cruise in the autumn of 1697.

[4] One small Arab vessel that rashly attacked the _Harwich_, mistaking it
for a merchant vessel, was disposed of with a broadside.

[5] Twenty were condemned and hung in one batch, in June, 1700; one of the
_Mocha_ mutineers among them. This was probably Guillam, to whom Kidd
had given a passage to America from Madagascar, and was supposed to
have been the man who stabbed Captain Edgecombe.



CHAPTER III

_THE RISE OF CONAJEE ANGRIA_