The King of Pirates

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Excerpt from The King of Pirates: Being an Account of the Famous Enterprises of Captain Avery, the Mock King of Madagascar; With His Rambles and Piracies

I fhall not trouble my Friends with any Thing of my Original and fir? Introduction into the' World, I leave it to you to add from yourfelf What you think proper to be known' on that Subject, only, this I enjoin you to take Notice of, that theaccount printed of me, with all the Par ticulars of my Marriage, my being defrauded, and leaving my Family and native Country on that Account, is a meer Fable and a made Story, ' to e'mbellifh, as the Writer ofit perhaps fuppos'd, the ref: of his Story, orw'perhaps to fill up the Book, that it might fwell to a Magnitude which his barren Invention could not fupply.

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