They broke out in open mutiny, but were finally mastered by Phips, and compelled to obey his orders.

It would have been dangerous, however, to continue much longer at sea with such a crew of mutinous sailors; and, besides, the Rose Algier was leaky and unseaworthy.

So Captain Phips judged it best to return to England.
Before leaving the West Indies, he met with a Spaniard, an old man, who remembered the wreck of the Spanish ship, and gave him directions how to find the very spot.

It was on a reef of rocks a few leagues from Porto de la Plata.
On his arrival in England, therefore, Captain Phips solicited the king to let him have another vessel, and send him back again to the West Indies.
But King James, who had probably expected that the Rose Algier would return laden with gold, refused to have any thing more to do with the affair.

Phips might never have been able to renew the search, if the Duke of Albemarle, and some other noblemen had not lent their assistance.