After forty-eight days of terrible sufferings almost naked, half starved, and reduced to a daily pint of water each, they reached Bombay on the 26th October.

It would have been well for the Company if they had had more captains like Macrae.

His arrival brought much obloquy on Kirby, whose shameful desertion was now made known.
The pirates only detained one of the _Cassandra's_ crew--Richard Lazenby, the carpenter's mate, whom they forced unwillingly to go with them.

There is still extant a curious account by Lazenby of his cruise with the pirates.

He tells of the cruel tortures inflicted on all captured natives; how on the Malabar coast they had friends, especially among the Dutch at Cochin, who bought their plunder, supplied them with provisions, and gave them information of armed ships to be avoided, and rich prizes to be intercepted.