Launch, and turning all the Engliſh Sailors into Pyrates.
After a few Days Cruiſe, Lowther took a ſmall Sloop belonging to St. Chriſtophers, which they mann’d and carried along with them to a ſmall Iſland, where they cleaned, and ſtay’d ſome Time to take their Diverſions, which conſiſted in unheard of Debaucheries, with drinking, ſwearing and rioting, in which there ſeemed to be a kind of Emulation among them, reſembling rather Devils than Men, ſtriving who ſhould out do one another in new invented Oaths and Execrations.
They all got aboard about Chriſtmas, obſerving neither Times nor Seaſons, for perpetrating their villainous Actions, and ſailed towards the Bay of Honduras; but ſtopping at the Grand Caimanes for Water, they met with a ſmall Veſſel with 13 Hands, in the ſame honourable Employment with themſelves; the Captain of this Gang was one Edward Lowe, whom we ſhall particularly diſcourſe of in a Chapter by it ſelf: Lowther received them as Friends, and treated them with all imaginable Reſpect, inviting them, as they were few in Number, and in no Condition to purſue the Account, (as they called it) to join their Strength together, which on the Conſideration aforeſaid, was accepted of, Lowther ſtill continuing Commander, and Lowe was made Lieutenant: The Veſſel the new Pyrates came out of, they ſunk, and the Confederates proceed on the Voyage as Lowther before intended.
The 10th of January, the Pyrates came into the Bay, and fell upon a Ship of 200 Tun, called the Greyhound, Benjamin Edwards Commander, belonging to Boſton. Lowther hoiſted his pyratical Colours, and fired a Gun for the Greyhound to bring to, which ſhe refuſing, the Happy Delivery (the Name of the Pyrate) edg’d down, and gave her a Broad
