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 Launch, and turning all the Englih Sailors into Pyrates.

After a few Days Cruie, Lowther took a mall Sloop belonging to St. Chritophers, which they mann’d and carried along with them to a mall Iland, where they cleaned, and tay’d ome Time to take their Diverions, which conited in unheard of Debaucheries, with drinking, wearing and rioting, in which there eemed to be a kind of Emulation among them, reembling rather Devils than Men, triving who hould out do one another in new invented Oaths and Execrations.

They all got aboard about Chritmas, oberving neither Times nor Seaons, for perpetrating their villainous Actions, and ailed towards the Bay of Honduras; but topping at the Grand Caimanes for Water, they met with a mall Veel with 13 Hands, in the ame honourable Employment with themelves; the Captain of this Gang was one Edward Lowe, whom we hall particularly dicoure of in a Chapter by it elf: Lowther received them as Friends, and treated them with all imaginable Repect, inviting them, as they were few in Number, and in no Condition to purue the Account, (as they called it) to join their Strength together, which on the Conideration aforeaid, was accepted of, Lowther till continuing Commander, and Lowe was made Lieutenant: The Veel the new Pyrates came out of, they unk, and the Confederates proceed on the Voyage as Lowther before intended.

The 10th of January, the Pyrates came into the Bay, and fell upon a Ship of 200 Tun, called the Greyhound, Benjamin Edwards Commander, belonging to Boton. Lowther hoited his pyratical Colours, and fired a Gun for the Greyhound to bring to, which he refuing, the Happy Delivery (the Name of the Pyrate) edg’d down, and gave her a Broad