The King of Pirates / Being an Account of the Famous Enterprises of Captain Avery, the Mock King of Madagascar

A seafaring adventurer writes two letters claiming to correct earlier sensational accounts of his life, offering a sober narrative of his maritime career, raids, and time on Madagascar. He describes seizing valuable booty from a royal entourage while insisting the women were treated with decency, rejects tales of rape, murder, marriage, and kingship, and explains practical motives, preparations, and measures for self-preservation. The account traces his rise to piracy, captures of ships and treasure, life among fellow buccaneers, and an escape, while the publisher frames these letters as a more credible version of events and cautions readers about earlier romanticized fabrications.