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558 Of Capt. George Lowthe.iu 



Launch, and turning all the £w///& Sailors into 

 Pyrates. 



After a few Days Cruile, Lowther took a fmall 

 Sloop belonging to St. ChrlftofherSy which they 

 mann'd and carried along with them to a fmall 

 Ifland, where they cleaned, and ftay'd Ibme Time 

 to take their Diverlions, which confifted in lin^ 

 heard of Det)aucheries, with drinking, fwearing 

 and rioting, in which there feemed 'to be a kind 

 pf Emulation among them, refembling rather Devils 

 than Men, ftriving who fliould out do one another 

 in new invented Oaths and Execrations. 



They all got aboard about r/;Wy?w2^^, obferving 

 Tieither Tiines nor Seafons, for perpetrating their 

 villainous Aftions^ and failed towards the Bay of 

 Honduras j but flopping at the Grand Caimanes for 

 Water, they met with a finall Veffel with 13 

 Hands, in tlie fame honourable Employment with 

 themfelves the Captain of this Gang was one 

 Edward Lowcy whom we fliali particularly difcourfe 

 of in a Chapter by it (elf: Lowther received them 

 as Friends, and treated them with all imaginable 

 Refpeft, inviting them, as they were ftw in Num- 

 ber, and in no Condition to purflie the Account, 

 (as they called it) to join their Strength together, 

 which on the Confideration afbrefaid, was accepted 

 • of, Lowther ftill continuing Commander, and Lowe 

 was made Lieutenant : The Veffel the new Pyrates 

 came out of, they funk, and the Confederates proceed 

 on the Voyage as Lowther before intended. 



Thp 10th of January^ the Pyrates came into the 

 Bay, and fell upon a Ship of 200 Tun, called the 

 (jreyhmnd^ Benjamin Edwards Commander, belong- 

 ing to Bofton* Lowther hoifled his pyratical Co- 

 lours, and fired a Gun for the Greyhound to bring to, 

 ^hich ilie refufing, the fJapfy Delivery (the Name 

 ©f thg Pyrate^ qdg'd4owp, and gave her a JBroadi- 



fide. 



