Lowth's suspicions being awakened, he sent for the captain and some of the crew, who 'confessed the whole matter,' and were promptly put in irons.

The _Margaret_ was seized, in spite of Dutch protests.

Two days later came in the _Vine_, pink, from St.Mary's, with a number of 'passengers' on board.

These were pirates on their way to New England, to make their submission, among them Chivers and Culliford.

Lowth would have seized them also, but the Dutch interfered, and the behaviour of the Dutch admiral became so threatening that Lowth cut short his stay and made sail for Bombay, which he reached safely, taking with him the _Margaret_ and eighteen prisoners.