Abraham Samuel

[2] Samuel and some surviving crewmen sailed the aging John and Rebecca down the eastern coast of Madagascar, seeking slaves to bring back to the New World with them.

While Cruger was ashore, pirate Evan Jones anchored his ship Beckford Galley alongside the Prophet Daniel.

[5] Cruger had antagonized his sailors during the voyage to Madagascar (a number of whom were owed back wages) and many of them willingly joined Jones, who sailed away to continue his own piracy.

Samuel sold the Prophet Daniel to four other pirates led by Edward Woodman, giving them a signed bill of sale.

The following year, the slave ship Degrave passed by "Port Dauphine", electing not to stop there because "the King of that part of the island was at enmity with all white men, and treated all the Europeans he met with very barbarously."

The Degrave soon sank, leaving a few surviving sailors (including Robert Drury, who would later write an account of his ordeal) to make their way among the Malagasy natives.

[3] A Dutch slave ship anchored in Fort Dauphin in December 1706 to find Abraham Samuel no longer there and the new Antanosy king of the area unwilling to discuss what had happened to him.