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Priggs ailed with Low for a pretty while, and I believe came away from Lowther, along with him; he was Quarter-Mater to the Company, and conequently had a great Share in all the Barbarities committed by that execrable Gang, till the Time they parted; which was about Chritmas lat, when Low took a Ship of 12 Guns on the Coat of Guiney, called the Delight, (formerly the Squirrel Man of War,) commanded by Captain Hunt. Spriggs took Poeion of the Ship with eighteen Men, left Low in the Night, and came to the Wet-Indies. This Separation was occaioned by a Quarrel with Low, concerning a Piece of Jutice Spriggs would have executed upon one of the Crew, for killing a Man in cold Blood, as they call it, one initing that he hould be hang’d, and the other that he hould not.

A Day or two after they parted, Spriggs was choe Captain by the ret, and a black Enign was made, which they called Jolly Roger, with the ame Device that Captain Low carried, viz. a white Skeliton in the Middle of it, with a Dart in one Hand trik