CHAP. XVII.
of
Captain Spriggs,
And his Crew.
Spriggs ſailed with Low for a pretty while, and I believe came away from Lowther, along with him; he was Quarter-Maſter to the Company, and conſequently had a great Share in all the Barbarities committed by that execrable Gang, till the Time they parted; which was about Chriſtmas laſt, when Low took a Ship of 12 Guns on the Coaſt of Guiney, called the Delight, (formerly the Squirrel Man of War,) commanded by Captain Hunt. Spriggs took Poſſeſſion of the Ship with eighteen Men, left Low in the Night, and came to the Weſt-Indies. This Separation was occaſioned by a Quarrel with Low, concerning a Piece of Juſtice Spriggs would have executed upon one of the Crew, for killing a Man in cold Blood, as they call it, one inſiſting that he ſhould be hang’d, and the other that he ſhould not.
A Day or two after they parted, Spriggs was choſe Captain by the reſt, and a black Enſign was made, which they called Jolly Roger, with the ſame Device that Captain Low carried, viz. a white Skeliton in the Middle of it, with a Dart in one Hand ſtriking
