Of Captain Halsey.
His Birth; he goes out with a Commission; takes a French Banker, goes to Fial and the Canary Islands; makes Prize at Barca Longa; goes to Bravo, turns his Lieutenant ashore, steers for Madagascar, takes in some Ship-wreck’d Men; makes for the Red Seas, [110]. Meets with and keeps Company with a Dutch Ship; is broken by his Crew; is reinstated in his Command; steers for Nicobar Island; takes the Buffalo; Captain Buckley dies, [111]. Takes Captain Collins; on a Dispute his Crew divides; Part go for Madagascar; Halsey steers for the Streights of Malacca; wants Courage to attack two different Ships; he chases and is chased by the Albemarle, [112]. Makes for Madagascar, falls in with Mascarenas; arrives at Madagascar, meets with the Buffalo and Captain White; augments his Company; sets out again for the Red Seas; stops at Johanna; narrowly escapes being taken; takes a Grab, [113]. Takes the Rising Eagle, the Captain of her, chief Mate, and Purser, killed; Capt. Jago’s Cowardice, [114]. The second Mate of the Prize shoots a Pyrate after striking; they chase and take the Essex; make a great Booty in Money; discharge the Prizes, are civil to the Passengers, and return to Madagascar, [115]. A Ships comes from Maderass, another from Scotland to trade with, and the latter is surprized by the Pyrates; a Hurricane happens; Burgiss’s Treachery, [116]. The Maderass Ship seized, and afterwards sent away; Halsey’s Death, [117]. His funeral Ceremony, [118].