[3] Somaliland, probably.
[4] An English frigate. The events that follow are more fully detailed in Kidd's narrative, [document no. 76], post.
[5] Culliford was a noted pirate, who for a time commanded the Mocha frigate, which had been stolen from the East India Company; and this Resolution was the Mocha renamed, not the Resolution of [document no. 68], par. 13.
[6] Shelley, fitted out from New York in 1698 by Stephen Delancey and others, was suspected of piracy. In a letter of May 27, 1699, to Delancey, from Cape May, he speaks of bringing in 15,000 dollars of passage money. Cal. St. P. Col., 1699, p. 281. He had lived in New York since 1688. See also [doc. no. 85], [note 17].
[7] Cayenne, probably.
[8] Andreas Gravenraedt of New York. On this very day, June 6, Governor Blakiston of Maryland was seizing him and his ship in the Severn River. Cal. St. P. Col., 1699, p. 287.
[9] May 26.
[10] Turner. He turned king's evidence. See the next document.
[11] Kidd's physician was Robert Bradinham; he also turned king's evidence.
[12] See [document no. 68], par. 13.