they were to ſhift as they could, ſailing away the next Day for other Adventures.
Captain Hawkins, and his unfortunate Companions, ſtaid 19 Days upon this Iſland, ſupplying themſelves with both Fiſh and Fowl, ſuch as they were, at which Time came two Men in a Canoe, that had been left upon another marroon Iſland near Benacca, who carry’d the Company at ſeveral Times thither, it being more convenient in having a good Well of freſh Water, and Plenty of Fiſh, &c. Twelve Days afterwards they ſpy’d a Sloop off at Sea, which, upon their making a great Smoke, ſtood in, and took them off; ſhe was the Merriam, Captain Jones, lately eſcaped out of the Bay of Honduras, from being taken by the Spaniards.
At an Iſland to the Weſtward, the Pyrates clean’d their Ship, and ſail’d towards the Iſland of St. Chriſtophers, to wait for one Captain Moor, who commanded the Eagle Sloop, when ſhe took Lowther’s upon the Careen, at Blanco; Spriggs reſolved to put him to Death, whenever he took him, for falling upon his Friend and Brother, but inſtead of Moor, he found a French Man of War from Martinico upon the Coaſt, which Spriggs not thinking fit to contend with, run away with all the Sail he could make, the French Man crowded after him, and was very likely to ſpeak with Mr. Spriggs, when unfortunately his Main-Top-Maſt came by the Board, which obliged him to give over the Chace.
Spriggs then ſtood to the Northward, towards Burmudas, or the Summer Iſles, and took a Scooner belonging to Boſton; he took out all the Men and ſunk the Veſſel, and had the Impudence to tell the Maſter, that he deſigned to encreaſe his Company on the Banks of Newfoundland, and then would ſail for the Coaſt of New-England in queſt of Captain Solgard, who attack’d and took their Conſort Charles Harris, Spriggs being then in Low’s Sloop,Sloop
