AHOY
Matey,
So ye be huntin
for my Pirates Booty? It won’t be as easy as ye think. I
hornswaggled some of the bloodiest pirates on the seven seas to
amass such a booty, and I will join them in Davey Jones’ Locker
before ye get the secrets from me. Avast ye, if you are lucky
enough to find me map, ye will still have to decipher me code to
find the spot for The Booty. Each spot contains a clue to
deciphering the map. There is no beginning or middle but there are
two ends, one filled with riches and glory, the other just might
have ye Dancin the Hempen Jig. If ye find all me clues, the map,
and the legend , ye have proven worthy to tempt ye fate with The
Booty. Study thy enemies well, for it might just keep ye from
walking the plank. If ye do happen to find me treasure, ye be
cursed with the Black Spot for a 1000 years if you take more than
ye’s share.
Ye have been
WORNED!!
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William Kidd
Goes by-name Captain kidd, was a 17th-century British privateer and
semi-legendary pirate who became celebrated in English literature
as one of the most colourful outlaws of all time. Fortune seekers
have hunted his buried treasure in vain through succeeding
centuries.
Kidd's early
career is obscure. It is believed he went to sea as a youth. After
1689 he was sailing as a legitimate privateer for Great Britain
against the French in the West Indies and off the coast of North
America. In 1690 he was an established sea captain and shipowner in
New York City, where he owned property; at various times he was
dispatched by both New York and Massachusetts to rid the coast of
enemy privateers. In London in 1695, he received a royal commission
to apprehend pirates who molested the ships of the East India
Company in the Red Sea and in the Indian
Ocean.
Kidd sailed from
Deptford on his ship, the "Adventure Galley", on Feb. 27, 1696,
called at Plymouth, and arrived at New York City on July 4 to take
on more men. Avoiding the normal pirate haunts, he arrived by
February 1697 at the Comoro Islands off East Africa. It was
apparently some time after his arrival there that Kidd, still
without having taken a prize ship, decided to turn to piracy. In
August 1697 he made an unsuccessful attack on ships sailing with
Mocha coffee from Yemen but later took several small ships. His
refusal two months later to attack a Dutch ship nearly brought his
crew to mutiny, and in an angry exchange Kidd mortally wounded his
gunner, William Moore. Kidd took his most valuable prize, the
Armenian ship "Quedagh Merchant", in January 1698 and scuttled his
own unseaworthy "Adventure Galley".
When he reached
Anguilla, in the West Indies (April 1699), he learned that he had
been denounced as a pirate. He left the Quedagh Merchant at the
island of Hispaniola (where the ship was possibly scuttled; in any
case, it disappeared with its questionable booty) and sailed in a
newly purchased ship, the "Antonio", to New York City, where he
tried to persuade the Earl of Bellomont, then colonial governor of
New York, of his innocence. Bellomont, however, sent him to England
for trial, and he was found guilty (May 8 and 9, 1701) of the
murder of Moore and on five indictments of piracy. Important
evidence concerning two of the piracy cases was suppressed at the
trial, and some observers later questioned whether the evidence was
sufficient for a guilty verdict. Kidd was hanged, and some of his
treasure was recovered from Gardiners Island off Long Island.
Proceeds from his effects and goods taken from the Antonio were
donated to charity. In years that followed, the name of Captain
Kidd has become inseparable from the romanticized concept of the
swashbuckling pirate of Western fiction. Among other stories
concerning caches of treasure he supposedly buried is Edgar Allan
Poe's "The Gold Bug."
The Pirate's Booty Series:
Pirate’s Booty: Black Bart
Pirate’s Booty: Black Beard
Pirate’s Booty: Captain Kidd
Pirate’s Booty: Francois L. Ollonais
Pirate’s Booty: Samuel Bellamy
Pirate’s Booty: Sir Francis Drake
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Pirate’s Booty: Sir Henry Morgan
Pirate’s Booty: Sir John Hawkins
Pirate’s Booty: Stede Bonnet
Pirate’s Booty: Barbarossa Brothers
Pirate’s Booty: The Plunder
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