feſſion that the Captain had, during the Chace, hung out of the Cabin Window, a Bag with 11,000 Moidores, which, aſſoon as he was taken, he cut the Rope off, and let it drop into the Sea.
Low, upon hearing what a Prize had eſcap’d him, rav’d like a Fury, ſwore a thouſand 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 Perſons.
After this bloody Action, they continued their Courſe, till they came to the Northward of all the Iſlands, and there cruiz’d for about a Month, in which Time they made Prizes of the following Veſſels, viz. a Snow from New-York to Curacoa, Robert Leonard Maſter; a Sloop from the Bay, bound to New-York, Craig Maſter; a Snow from London and Jamaica, bound to New-York; and the Stanhope Pink, Andrew Delbridge Maſter, from Jamaica to Boſton; which laſt they burnt, becauſe of Low’s irreconcileable Averſion to New-England Men.
After this Cruize, they went into one of the Iſlands and clean’d, and then ſteered for the Bay of Honduras, where they arrived about the Middle of March 1722-3, and met a Sloop turning out of the ſaid Bay. The Pyrates had hoiſted up Spaniſh Colours, and continued them till they drew near the Sloop, then they hall’d them down, hoiſted their black Flag, fired a Broadſide, and boarded her. This Sloop was a Spaniard of ſix Guns, and 70 Men, that came into the Bay that Morning, and meeting there with five Engliſh Sloops, and a Pink, made Prizes of them all, plundered them, and brought the Maſters of the Veſſels away Priſoners, for the ranſom of the Logwood; their Names were Tuthill, Norton, Newbury, Sprafort, Clark and Parrot. The Spaniards made no Reſiſtance, ſo that the Engliſh Pyrates ſoon became their Maſtersand
