_Benecca_, and carried them thither. A fortnight after they espied a
Sloop at sea, which had lately escaped from the _Spaniards_ at the Bay
of _Honduras_, which, upon a signal stood in and took them all off.

At an Island to the westward, the Pirates cleaned their ship, and then
sailed towards _St. Christophers_ to meet Captain _Moor_.

_Spriggs_ next stood towards _Bermudas_, where he took a Schooner
belonging to _Boston_, from which he took all the Men, and sunk the
Vessel.

Instead of going to _Newfoundland_, they came back to the Islands, and
on the 8th of _June_, to windward of _St. Christophers_, they took a
Sloop, _Nicholas Trot_, Master, belonging to _St. Eustatia_, whose men
they hoisted as high as the main fore-tops, and so let them fall down
again; then whipping them about the deck, they gave _Trot_ his Sloop,
and let him go, keeping only two of his men, besides the plunder. Two
or three days after, they took a ship coming from _Rhode Island_ to
_St. Christophers_, laden with provisions and some horses, and burnt
ship, men, and horses: Since when _Spriggs_ has not been heard of:
though it is supposed he went to _Madagascar_, to spend, in rioting
and wantonness, his ill gotten plunder; till by a letter from
_Jamaica_, of the 2nd of _March_ last, we understood, That he had been
again at the Bay of _Honduras_, and taken sixteen Sail.

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[Illustration: CAPTAIN EDWARD LOWE]

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CAPTAIN EDWARD LOWE, AND HIS CREW

_Edward Lowe_, born at _Westminster_, very early began the Trade of
Plundering; for if any Child refused him what he had, he must fight
him. When he grew bigger, he took to Gaming among Blackshoe Boys upon
the _Parade_, with whom he used to play the _Whole Game_, as they call
it; that is, cheat every Body, and if they refused, they had to fight
him.

_Ned_ went to Sea with his eldest Brother, and leaving him in
_New-England_, he worked in a Rigging House, at Boston, for some
Time, when not liking that, he returned to _England_ to see his
Mother, with whom he did not stay long before he took his Leave of
her, for the last Time, as he said, and returned to _Boston_, where he
shipped himself in a Sloop that was bound to the Bay of _Honduras_;
and when he arrived there, he was made Patron of the Boat, to bring
the logwood on board to lade the ship; where he differing with the
Captain about the hurry of taking the logwood on board, _Lowe_ takes
up a loaden M