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 feion that the Captain had, during the Chace, hung out of the Cabin Window, a Bag with 11,000 Moidores, which, aoon as he was taken, he cut the Rope off, and let it drop into the Sea.

Low, upon hearing what a Prize had ecap’d him, rav’d like a Fury, wore a thouand Oaths, and ordered the Captain’s Lips to be cut off, which he broil’d before his Face, and afterwards murthered him and all the Crew, being thirty two Perons.

After this bloody Action, they continued their Coure, till they came to the Northward of all the Ilands, and there cruiz’d for about a Month, in which Time they made Prizes of the following Veels, viz. a Snow from New-York to Curacoa, Robert Leonard Mater; a Sloop from the Bay, bound to New-York, Craig Mater; a Snow from London and Jamaica, bound to New-York; and the Stanhope Pink, Andrew Delbridge Mater, from Jamaica to Boton; which lat they burnt, becaue of Low’s irreconcileable Averion to New-England Men.

After this Cruize, they went into one of the Ilands and clean’d, and then teered for the Bay of Honduras, where they arrived about the Middle of March 1722-3, and met a Sloop turning out of the aid Bay. The Pyrates had hoited up Spanih Colours, and continued them till they drew near the Sloop, then they hall’d them down, hoited their black Flag, fired a Broadide, and boarded her. This Sloop was a Spaniard of ix Guns, and 70 Men, that came into the Bay that Morning, and meeting there with five Englih Sloops, and a Pink, made Prizes of them all, plundered them, and brought the Maters of the Veels away Prioners, for the ranom of the Logwood; their Names were Tuthill, Norton, Newbury, Sprafort, Clark and Parrot. The Spaniards made no Reitance, o that the Englih Pyrates oon became their Maters