Identifier: newenglandlegend00spof (find matches)
Title: New-England legends
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921
Subjects: Legends
Publisher: Boston, J.R. Osgood and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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be going outside of his duty, or tobe appearing in any questionable light, when,on his voyage out, he met the ship carrying theambassador to the Great Mogul, and exchangedcourtesies therewith. Tired out with his want of success, when an-chored at Babs Key, he sent boats to bring thefirst news of the sailing of the Mocha fleet, es-tablished a lookout on the hills of the island,and told his men that now he would freight theAdventure Galley with gold and silver whenthe fleet came out, though it was found thatmany of Its ships belonged to friendly nations,and it was convoyed by an English and a Dutchman-of-war. Kidd, however, sailed into themidst ofi the fleet, which fired at him first, andreturning the fire with oue or two ineffectualshots, he hauled off and left it to pursue itscourse Sailing then for the coast of Malabar,a couple of months afterward Kidd took a Moor-ish vessel belonging to Aden, but commandedby an Englishman, and finding but little ot THE TEUE ACCOUNT OP CAPTAIN KEDD.
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KIDD SNATCHED UP AN IBON-BOTTND BUCKET AND STKUCK -WIIXIAM UOOBE A BLOW ON THE HEAD, OP WHICH HE DIED NEXT DAY. value in the prize, he had her men hoisted bythe arms and beaten with the flat of a cutlassto maJie them reveal what ihey had done withtheir money—a punishment which, whether se-vere or not for that semi-barbarous era, was,with two exceptions, the only act of personalcruelty of which he was ever accused ; and peo-ple whom, if the general idea of him were true,he would have dispatched with a^ bullet,, hesimply kept in the hold till, inquiry for thembeing over, he dismissed them. He obtainedfirom this vessel some coflFee, pepper, and Ara-bian gold, and some myrrh, with which the ex-travagant rogue pitched his ship. Going furtherout to sea again, he next encountered a Portu-guese man-of-war, but after a brief engagementwithdrew with ten men wounded, and returned presently to the coast of Malabar. Here, hiscooper having been tilled by the natives, heserved them in pretty much

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