In 1682 he undertook his return homewards to Antwerp. The title of the volume, which means "Homewards" in English, reflects his expatriate situation. While on a ship bound homewards from Italy, he was captured by Moorish pirates. She sometimes called at Southampton homewards during the busy fruit season. After confirming their position and planting their flag, Scott's party turned homewards. Baffled, he turned homewards, but died in Orkney on 15 December 1263. Becoming worse, he started homewards, but died at Koblenz, Prussia on 14 September 1859.