3^0 Of Capt. GEO^G^ l^OWTHEltk 



rates unprepared, As they were in no Condition 

 to defend themfelves, they fled to their Sloop?, lea- 

 ving them Matters of the Field and the Spoil thereof^ 

 which was of great Value, and fet Fire to the Hap^ 

 py Delivery^ , their c^^it^] Ship. 



Lowther xnzde the beft Prpvifion he could in the 

 largeft Sloop, which he called the Rangtry having 

 ten Gun^5 and eight Swivels, and fixe failing beft, the 

 Compapy went all aboard, of her, and l^fc the other 

 at Sea, Provifions was now very ftiort, which, 

 with the late Lofs, put them in a confounded ill 

 Humour, infomuch that they were every now and 

 then going together by the Ears, laying the Blame 

 of their ill Gondiia: fbmetimes upon one, then up* 

 qn another. 



The Beginning of May 172Z, they got tp the 

 Weft-Indies^ and near the Ifland of Difead^^ tppfc' 

 a Brigantine, one Tayne Mafter, that afforded them 

 what they flood in need of, whxh put them 

 in better Temper, and Bufinefs feemed t9 go on 

 well again. After they hxid pretty well piundere4 

 the Brig^ntine, they lent her to the Bottom. They 

 went intp the Ifland and watered, and then ftood 

 to the Northward, intending to vifit the Main-Goaft 

 qi ^merica^ 



In the Latitude of 38, they took a Brigantinc 

 called the Rebecca of Bofto^^ Captain St^itby Wuaid, 

 thither froin St. C/?r//?i9j)Wj. At the taiiiig of this 

 Velfel, tjie ^Crews divided-, for Loxvy "whom Low^ 

 thtr joined at the (jran4 Caimamsy proving al\yays a 

 very iijii*uly Member of the CominQAW^a 1th, al- 

 ways afpi.ring, and never iatisfy'd with the Pro- 

 cee^dings of the Commander ^ he thought it the 

 fafeft AVay to get rid ^c^f him, upon any Terms - 

 ^nd according to the Vote of the Company, they 

 parted the Benr Skin between thetn ; Xo?i? with 44 

 Jiands went aboard the B^rfgantine, and La'jfvther 



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