[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] or less intimacy with the pirates of the high seas. " The most ap-proved course usually pursued was to load a ship with goods for exchange and sale on the Island of Madagascar. Rum costing two shillings per gallon in New York would fetch fifty to sixty shillings in Madagascar. A pipe of Madeira wine costing nineteen pounds in New York could be sold for three hundred pounds in that distant island. Not that just so much specie would be given for these articles there. But here was the rendezvous of the pirates, or buc-caneers, of the Indian Ocean, and the goods they offered in exchange were extremely costly." 1 Probably the principal reason of Governor Fletcher's recall was his tolerance of such intercourse. Bellomont, who followed him, was charged expressly to deal summarily with it; and in consequence, Frederick Philipse found it expedient to termi-nate his membership in the council, and so avoid disgraceful expul-sion. 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 hanged (May, 1701). Kidd originally appears in the virtuous and nobfe character of a pirate hunter.