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 becaue it was a Place where Traders did not commonly ue, o took the Advantage of attacking her, as he was then unprepared; the Eagle having fired a Gun to oblige her to hew her Colours, the Pyrate hoited the St. George’s Flag at their Topmat-Head, as it were to bid Defiance to her; but when they found Moore and his Crew reolved to board them in good earnet, the Pyrates cut their Cable and hawled their Stern on Shore, which obliged the Eagle to come to an Anchor a-thwart their Hawe, where he engaged them till they called for Quarter and truck; at which Time Lowther and twelve of the Crew made their Ecape out of the Cabin Window. The Mater of the Eagle got the Pyrate Sloop off, ecured her, and went ahore with 25 Hands, in Puruit of Lowther and his Gang; but after five Day’s earch, they could find but five of them, which they brought aboard, and then proceeded with the Sloop and Pyrates to Comena aforeaid, where they oon arrived.

The Spanih Governor being informed of this brave Action, condemned the Sloop to the Captors, and ent a mall Sloop with 23 Hands to cower the Buhes and other Places of the Iland of Blanco, for the Pyrates that remained there, and took four more, with even mall Arms, leaving behind them Captain Lowther, three Men, and a little Boy, which they could not take; the above four the Spaniards try’d and condemned to Slavery for Life; three to the Gallies, and the other to the Catle of Arraria.

The Eagle Sloop brought all their Prioners afterwards to St. Chritopher’s, where the following were try’d by a Court of Vice Admiralty, there held March the 11th, 1722, viz. John Churchill, Edward Mackdonald, Nicholas Lewis, Richard Wet, ''Sam. Levercott, Robert White, John Shaw, Andrew Hunter, Jonathan Delve, Matthew Freebarn'',