A  little  time  after  he  touched  at  Carawar,  a  place
upon  the  same  coast,  where,  before  he  arrived,  the
news  of  what  he  had  done  to  the  Moorish  ship  had
reached  them;  for  some  of  the  English  merchants
there  had  received  an  account  of  it  from  the  owners,
who  corresponded  with  them;  wherefore,  as  soon  as
Kid  came  in,  he  was  suspected  to  be  the  person  who
committed  this  piracy,  and  one  Mr.  Harvey  and
Mr.  Mason,  two  of  the  English  factory,  came  on
board  and  asked  for  Parker  and  Antonio,  the  Portu-
guese, but  Kid  denied  that  he  knew  any  such  per-
sons, having  secured  them  both  in  a  private  place  in
the  hold,  where  they  were  kept  for  seven  or  eight
days,  that  is  till  Kid  sailed  from  thence.
However,  the  coast  was  alarmed,  and  a  Portu-
guese man-of-war  was  sent  out  to  cruise.  Kid  met
with  her,  and  fought  her  about  six  hours,  gallantly
enough;  but  finding  her  too  strong  to  be  taken,  he
quitted  her,  for  he  was  able  to  run  away  from
her  when  he  would.  Then  he  went  to  a  place
called  Porco,  where  he  watered  the  ship,  and  bought
a  number  of  hogs  of  the  natives  to  victual  his  com-
pany.
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Soon  after  this  he  came  up  with  a  Moorish  ship,
the  master  whereof  was  a  Dutchman,  called  Schip-
per  Mitchel,  and  chased  her  under  French  colors,
which,  they  observing,  hoisted  French  colors  too.
