[Illustration:  The Pirates riding the Priests about deck.]

In Luengo Bay he saw two ships at anchor, one a Dutchman of 44 guns, the other an English ship, called the Fame, Capt.  Bowen, commander.  They both cut and ran ashore; the Fame was lost, but the Dutch ship the pirate got off and took with him.  When he was at sea again, he discharged Captain Hill, and stood away for the East Indies.  Near the Cape he took an Ostend East-Indiaman, of which Mr. Nash, a noted merchant of London, was supercargo.  Soon after he took a Dutch East-Indiaman, discharged the Ostender, and made for Madagascar.  At the Isle of St. Mary, he met with some of Capt.  Halsey’s crew, whom he took on board with other stragglers, and shaped his course for the East-Indies, and in the way, at the island of Johanna, took, in company with two other pirates he met at St. Mary’s, the Cassandra East-Indiaman, commanded by Capt.  James Macraigh.  He continued his course for the East-Indies, where he made a very great booty; and returning, touched at the island of Mascarenhas, where he met with a Portuguese ship of 70 guns, with the viceroy of Goa on board.  This ship he made prize of, and hearing she had money on board, they would allow of no ransom, but carried her to the coast of Zanguebar, where was a Dutch fortification, which they took and plundered, razed the fort, and carried off several men voluntarily.  From hence they stood for St. Mary’s, where they shared their booty, broke up their company, and settled among the natives.  Here a snow came from Bristol, which they obliged to carry a petition to the governor of Mascarenhas for a pardon, though they paid the master very generously.  The governor returned answer he would take them into protection if they would destroy their ships, which they agreed to, and accordingly sunk the Flying Dragon, &c.  Condent and some others went to Mascarenhas, where Condent married the governor’s sister-in-law, and remained some time; but, as I have been credibly informed, he is since come to France, settled at St. Maloes, and drives a considerable trade as a merchant.

THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN EDWARD LOW.

This ferocious villain was born in Westminster, and received an education similar to that of the common people in England.  He was by nature a pirate; for even when very young he raised contributions among the boys of Westminster, and if they declined compliance, a battle was the result.  When he advanced a step farther in life, he began to exert his ingenuity at low games, and cheating all in his power; and those who pretended to maintain their own right, he was ready to call to the field of combat.

He went to sea in company with his brother, and continued with him for three or four years.  Going over to America, he wrought in a rigging-house at Boston for some time.  He then came home to see his mother in England, returned to Boston, and continued for some years longer at the same business.  But being of a quarrelsome temper, he differed with his master, and went on board a sloop bound for the Bay of Honduras.