Company aſhore, put an End to their Deſign and Captain Gwatkin’s Life. After this unfortunate Blow, the Mate returned aboard with the Boat, and not being enclined to purſue them any farther, took Charge of the Ship.
Lowther got off the Sloop after the Departure of the Amy, and brought all his Men aboard again, but was in a poor ſhattered Condition, having ſuffered much in the Engagement, and had a great many Men kill’d and wounded: He made Shift to get into an Inlet ſomewhere in North-Carolina, where he ſtaid a long while before he was able to put to Sea again.
He and his Crew laid up all the Winter, and ſhifted as well as they could among the Woods, divided themſelves into ſmall Parties, and hunted generally in the Day Times, killing of black Cattle, Hogs, &c. for their Subſiſtance, and in the Night retired to their Tents and Huts, which they made for Lodging; and ſometimes when the Weather grew very cold, they would ſtay aboard of their Sloop.
In the Spring of the Year 1723, they made Shift to get to Sea, and ſteered their Courſe for Newfoundland, and upon the Banks took a Scooner, call’d the Swift, John Hood Maſter; they found a good Quantity of Proviſions aboard her, which they very much wanted at that Time, and after taking three of their Hands, and plundering her of what they thought fit, they let her depart. They took ſeveral other Veſſels upon the Banks, and in the Harbour, but none of any great Account; and then ſteering for a warmer Climate, in Auguſt arrived at the Weſt-Indies. In their Paſſage thither, they met with a Brigantine, called the John and Elizabeth, Richard Stanny Maſter, bound for Boſton, which they plundered, took two of her Men, and diſcharged her.
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