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 Company ahore, put an End to their Deign and Captain Gwatkin’s Life. After this unfortunate Blow, the Mate returned aboard with the Boat, and not being enclined to purue them any farther, took Charge of the Ship.

Lowther got off the Sloop after the Departure of the Amy, and brought all his Men aboard again, but was in a poor hattered Condition, having uffered much in the Engagement, and had a great many Men kill’d and wounded: He made Shift to get into an Inlet omewhere in North-Carolina, where he taid a long while before he was able to put to Sea again.

He and his Crew laid up all the Winter, and hifted as well as they could among the Woods, divided themelves into mall Parties, and hunted generally in the Day Times, killing of black Cattle, Hogs, &c. for their Subitance, and in the Night retired to their Tents and Huts, which they made for Lodging; and ometimes when the Weather grew very cold, they would tay aboard of their Sloop.

In the Spring of the Year 1723, they made Shift to get to Sea, and teered their Coure for Newfoundland, and upon the Banks took a Scooner, call’d the Swift, John Hood Mater; they found a good Quantity of Proviions aboard her, which they very much wanted at that Time, and after taking three of their Hands, and plundering her of what they thought fit, they let her depart. They took everal other Veels upon the Banks, and in the Harbour, but none of any great Account; and then teering for a warmer Climate, in Augut arrived at the Wet-Indies. In their Paage thither, they met with a Brigantine, called the John and Elizabeth, Richard Stanny Mater, bound for Boton, which they plundered, took two of her Men, and dicharged her.