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Blame Mary.

Of all the piratical crews that were ever heard of, none of the English name came up to this, in barbarity; their mirth and their anger had much the same effect, for both were usually gratified with the cries and groans of their prisoners; so that they almost as often murdered a man from the excess good humour, as out of passion and resentment; and the unfortunate could never be assured of safety from them, for danger lurked in their very smiles.

Ned Low was a pretty psychotic pirate, but he had a human side as well. I have copied out a few excerpts, and you must guess if they pertain to Low or some other pirate! :) I will post later which is which. I will say that 5 are Low, and 3 are 'other'. Have fun! ^-^ I know some will have an advantage, since I've been ranting about him with some frequency lately ;)



1. This was a great surprise to me; but my generous friend ___ soon out me out of my pain. For he told him “They wanted no pilot,” and the fellow still insisting on my going, Captain ___ caned him off the quarter-deck, and I heard no more of it.

2. ___ ordered the schooner to lie in the fairway between St. Michaels and St. Mary’s, where, about the 20th of August, Captain Carter in the Wright galley, had the ill fortune to come in her way; and because at first they showed inclinations to defend themselves, and what they had, the pirates cut and mangled them in a barbarous manner; particularly some Portuguese passengers, two of which were friars, they triced up at each arm of the foreyard, but let them down again before they were quite dead, and this they repeated several times out of sport.

3. Within a few days they took a ship called the Amsterdam Merchant, Captain Willard, from Jamaica, but belonging to New England; as ___ let none of that country depart without some marks of his rage, he cut off this gentleman’s ears, slit up his nose, and cut him in several places of his body, and, after plundering his ship, let him pursue his voyage.

4. God damn ye, reply’d ___, you are an obstinate villain, and your design is to hang us; but, Blood and Wounds you dog, you shan’t live to see it, and saying this, he ran into his cabin and fetch’d a pistol with design to shoot Atkinson…

5. It seems his design was to take no married man away with him, how young soever he might be, which I often wondered at; ‘til after I had been with him some considerable time, and could observe in him an uneasiness in the sentiments of his mind, and the working of his passions towards a young child he had at Boston (his wife being dead, as I learned, some small time before he turned pirate) which upon every lucid interval from reveling and drink he would express a great tenderness for, insomuch as I have seen him sit down and weep plentifully upon the mentioning of it…

6. ___ was a bloody villain, having a few days before killed a poor sailor, because he did not do something so soon as he had ordered him.

7. ___, upon hearing what a prize had escaped him, raved like a fury, swore a thousand oats, and ordered the captain’s lips to be cutoff; which he broiled before his face, and afterwards murdered him and all the crew, being thirty-two persons.

8. …yet now that ___ appeared, Spriggs had got an account of [a design to run away] some way or other; and full pf resentment and rage he goes aboard ___, and acquaints him with what he called out treacherous design, and says all he can to provoke him to revenge the mischief upon us, and earnestly urged that we might be shot. But GOD who has the hearts of all men in His own hands, and turns them as he pleases, so over ruled, that ___ turned it off with a laugh…