[5] Maio, one of the Cape Verde Islands.
[6] Fernando Po, in the Bight of Biafra.
[7] Ilha do Principe. The islands of St. Thomé, Principe, and Annobon are fully described, in their then state, in the second edition of Johnson, General History of the Pyrates, pp. 188-204.
[8] Danish. Fourteen of the Danes joined the pirate crew, so says Philip Middleton in a narrative not identical with our [no. 64], post (Cal. St. Pap. Col., 1696-1697, p. 261); and the Court of the East India Company, in a letter to the General and Council at Bombay, Aug. 7, 1696, report that Every's motley company "consisted of 52 French, 14 Danes, the rest [104] English, Scottish, and Irish". Beckles Willson, Ledger and Sword, I. 434.
[9] Perpetuana, a durable woolen fabric.
[10] The island of Annobon, in lat. 1° 24´ S.; see [note 7].
[11] One of the Comoro group of islands, lying between the north point of Madagascar and the mainland of Africa. It may be useful to mention that at this time the East India Company's monopoly of trade in the Indian Ocean had been broken by a declaration of the House of Commons, Jan. 11, 1694, that every British subject had the right to trade with India.
[12] Probably Patta, off British East Africa, but then Portuguese. Comoro is the principal island in the group of which Johanna is one. Molila, below, is most likely Mohelli, another of the group.
[13] Whorekill, i.e. Lewes Creek, Delaware.
[14] Perim, in the straits of Bab-el-Mandeb.