Daniel Defoe 
King of Pirates 
Being an Account of the Famous Enterprises of Captain Avery, the Mock King of Madagascar; With His Rambles and Piracies

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. I fhall not trouble my Friends with any Thing of my Original and firfl: 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.