Sailing East

Five West-Indian pirates attempt to recapture 17th-century pirate glory on the East-Indian isle of Madagascar. Edward England Edward Congdon Olivier LeVasseur and Richard Taylor sail to Madagascar in 1720 and join with Jasper Seager to make havoc against the East-Indian Company. These are the stories of their misadventures and lives. Some lived opulently - some died horrible deaths. They met Dutch French Portuguese Spanish and the native Betsimisaraka with whom they shared their short lives. They also captured a Portuguese Viceroy the Fort at Delagoa East-India Company officials including an angry Scottish captain and traded with a Royal Navy Commodore intent upon an illicit trade in gold and jewels!