Buccaneers and Pirates


the black flag with the white skull and cross bones and let it
flap to the breeze. The ship chose to surrender, and came to
under the stern of the commodore's ship. On September 9th
after a week's stay, they left Turneffe and sailed along the reef
to the Sapodilla Cayes, meeting the ship "Protestant Caesar,"
from Boston, Captain Wyar, commander. Teach's quarter-
master and eight of his crew plundered and then burnt her
because she belonged to Boston where some Mien had been
hanged for piracy to the resentment of Teach. They also met
four sloops which Richards secured, three were from Jamaica,
and the fourth they burned out of spite to her owner Captain
James.
 Teach's subsequent career belongs elsewhere, but we may
add that at Ocrecoke and Topsail Inlet, near Cape Hatteras,
he had his headquarters, and his accomplice was Charles
Eden, governor of North Carolina, with whom he shared the
plunder in cargoes of tobacco, rum, slaves, and sugar. This
governor performed the ceremony, and was present at the
feast Teach gave when he married his fourteenth wife, who
was very young. The night before he was killed by Lieuten-
ant Maynard, who cut off his head and hung it on the bow-
sprit, one of his men asked him, in case anything should hap-
pen to him, whether his wife knew where he buried his
money? Teach answered "that nobody but himself and the
devil knew where it was, and that the longest liver should
take all."
 Edward Low was born in Westminster, and could neither
read nor write. As a street boy he used to rob or fight his
fellows for their farthings, and later he cheated in a low way
when gambling with the footmen of the lobby of the House
of Commons. He had a brother who when but seven years
old used to be carried in a basket upon a porter's back into
a crowd to snatch the wigs and hats, and later ended his days
on a gibbet at Tyburn. Edward worked for several years in
Boston, and in 1722 came to Belize for logwood where he
had a quarrel with his captain about the loading of the ves-