Day at the Weſtern Iſlands, viz. the Greyhound, Captain Glaſs, and the Joliff, Captain Aram; the former of which was deſigned to be fitted for the pyratical Trade to Braſil, if Things had happened to their Minds. They mann’d the Sloop, and ſent her in Queſt of one or both of theſe Ships to the Weſtern Iſlands aforeſaid, whilſt they carreen’d their Ship Roſe, at one of the Cape de Verds: But now Fortune that had hitherto been ſo propitious to them, left her Minions, and baffled for the preſent all their Hopes, for the Sloop miſſing of their Prey, was reduced to great Neceſſities for want of Proviſions and Water, ſo that they ventured to go aſhore at St. Michael’s for a Supply, and paſs for a Trader; but they play’d their Parts ſo aukwardly, that they were ſuſpected by the Governor to be what they really were, and he was ſoon put out of doubt by a Viſit ſome Portugueſe made them, who happened unluckily to be Paſſengers in Captain Carter’s Ship, when Low took her, and knew the Gentlemen’s Faces very well; upon which the whole Crew was conducted into the Caſtle, where they were provided for as long as they liv’d.
Low, in the mean Time, did not fare quite ſo ill, but had his intended Voyage to Braſil ſpoil’d, by the overſetting of his Ship, when ſhe was upon the Careen, whereby ſhe was loſt, ſo that he was reduc’d to his old Scooner, which he called the Fancy, aboard of which they all went, to the Number of 100, as vile Rogues as ever ended their Lives at Tyburn. They proceeded now to the Weſt-Indies, but before they had gotten far on their Voyage, they attack’d a rich Portugueſe Ship, call’d the Noſtre Signiora de Victoria, bound home from Bahia, and after ſome Reſiſtance, took her. Low tortur’d ſeveral of the Men, to make them declare where the Money, (which he ſuppos’d they had on Board) lay, and extorted by that Means, a Con-feſſion
