" The most apor less intimacy with the pirates of the high seas. proved course usually pursued was to load a ship with goods for Rum costing two exchange and sale on the Island of Madagascar. shillings per gallon in New York would fetch fifty to sixty shillings A pipe of Madeira wine costing nineteen pounds in in Madagascar. New York could be sold for three hundred pounds in that distant Not that just so much specie would be given for these island. But here was the rendezvous of the pirates, or bucarticles there. Ocean, and the goods they offered in exchange Indian caneers, of the were extremely costly." 1 Probably the principal reason of Governor Bellomont, Fletcher's recall was his tolerance of such intercourse. who followed him, was charged expressly to deal summarily with it; and in consequence, Frederick Philipse found it expedient to terminate his membership in the council, and so avoid disgraceful expulsion. It was as an incident of Bellomont's vigorous policy in this line that Captain William Kidd, whose name and fame have become immortal iu the legendary annals of piracy, was arrested, tried, and Kidd originally appears in the virtuous and hanged (May, 1701). A number of particularly rehunter. pirate a of character nobfe spectable and distinguished subscribers (among them King William and Lord Bellomont at that time not yet governor), having at heart the suppression of piracy, equipped a stanch vessel for Kidd, who was known as a bold and experienced mariner, and sent him forth to search for these evil men wheresoever they might ply their horrid As the story runs, he renvocation, and scourge them from the seas. chivalric cause, but later dered valuable services for a. time in this most desperate corfell into degenerate ways, and himself became a his cruises were the sair.