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CAPTAIN ROBERT KIDD.
WE are now going to give an account of one whose name is well known in England. The person we mean is Capt. Kidd, whose public trial and execution here, rendered him the subject of all conversation, so that his actions have been chanted abort in ballads. However, it is now a considerable time since these things passed, and though the people knew in general that Capt. Kidd was hanged, and that his crime was piracy, yet there were scarce any, even at that time, who were acquainted with his life or action, or could account for his turning pirate.
In the beginning of king William's war, Capt. Kidd commanded a privateer in the West-Indies, and by several adventurous actions acquired the reputation of a brave man, as well as an experienced seaman. About this time the pirates were very troublesome in those parts: wherefore Capt. Kidd was recommended by the Lord Bellamont, then governor of Bardadoes, as well as by several other persons, to the government here, as a person very fit to be entrusted with the command of a government ship, and to be employed in cruising upon the pirates, as knowing those seas perfectly welt, and being acquainted with all their lurking places; but what reasons governed the polities of those times I cannot tell, but this, proposal met with no encouragement here, though it is certain it would have been of great consequence to the subject, our merchants suffering incredible damages by those robbers.
Upon this neglect, the lord Bellamont and some others, who knew what great captures had been made by the pirates, and what a prodigious wealth must be their possessions, were tempted to fit out a ship at their own private charge, and to give the command of her to Capt. Kidd; and to give the thing a greater reputation, as well as to keep their seamen under the better command, they procured the king's commission for the said Capt. Kidd, of which the following is an exact copy.
William Rex.
WILLIAM THE THIRD, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. To our trusty and well beloved Capt. ROBERT KIDD, commander ofthe ship the Adventure galley, or to any other the commander of the same for the time being, Greeting: Wbereas we are informed, that Capt. Thomas Too, John Ireland, Capt Thomas Wake, and Capt. William Maze, or Mace, and other subjects, natives or inhabitants of New-York, and elsewhere, in our plantations inAmerica, have associated themselves with divers others, wicked and ill-disposed persons, and do against the law of nations commit many and great piracies, robberies, and depredations on the seas upon the parts of America, and in other parts, to the great hindrance and discouragement of trade and navigation, and to the great danger and hurt of our loving subjects, our allies, and all others, navigating the seas upon their lawfbl occasions. Now KNOW YE, that we being desirous to prevent the aforesaid mischiefs, and. as much as in us ties, to bring the said pirates, free-booters and sea-rovers to justice, have thought fit, and do hereby give and grant to the said Robert Kidd (to whom our
missioners for exercising the office of Lord High Admiral of England, have granted a commission as a private man of war, bearing date the 11th day of December 1695, and unto the commander of the said ship for the time being, and unto the officers,mariners, and others, which shall be under your command, full powerand authority to apprehend, seize, and take into your custody as well the said Capt.  Thomas Too, John Ireland, Capt.Thomas Wake, and
Capt. William Maze, or Mace, as such pirates, freebooters, and sea-rovers, being either our subjects, or of other nations associated with them, which you shall meet with upon the seas or coasts of America, or upon any other seas or coasts, with all their ships and vessels, and all such merchandise, money, goods, and wares as shall be found on board, or with them, in case they shall willingly yield themselves; but if they will not yield without fighting, then you are by force to compel them to yield. And we also require you to bring, or cause to be brought, such pirates, free-booters, or sea-rovers, as you shall seize, to a legal trial,-to the end they may be proceeded against according to the law in such cases. And we do hereby command all our officers, ministers, and other our loving subjects whatsoever, to be aiding and assisting to you in the premises. And we do hereby enjoin you to keep an exact journal of your proceedings in the execution of the premises, and set down the names of such pirates, and of their officers and company, and the names of such ships and vessels as you shall by virtue of these presents take and seize, and the quantities of arms, ammunition, provision, and lading of such ships, and the true value of the same, as near as you judge. And we do hereby strictly charge and command you, as you will answer the contrary at your peril, that you do not, in any manner, offend or molest our friends or allies, their ships or subjects, by colour or pretence of these presents, or the authority thereby granted. In witness whereof, we have caused our great seal of England to be affixed to these presents. Given at our court at Kensington, the 26th day of January, 1695, in the 7th year of our reign. Capt. Kidd had also another commission, which was called a Commission of reprisals; for it being then war time, this commission was to justify him in the taking of French merchant ships, in case he should meet with any; but as this commission is nothing to our present purpose, we shall not berden the reader with it.
With these two commissions he sailed out of Plymouth in May, 1696, in the Adventure galley,
of 30 guns, and 80 men; the place he first designed for was New York; in his voyage thither he took a French banker, but this was no act of piracy, he having a commission for that purpose, as we hare just observed.
When he arrived at New York, he put up articles for engaging more hands, it being necessary to his ship's crew, since be proposed to deal with a desperate enemy. The terms he offered were, that , every man should have a share of what was taken, reserving for himself and owners forty shares. Upon which encouragement he soon increased his company to 155 men.
With this company he sailed first for Madeira, where he took-in wine and some other necessaries; from thence he proceeded to Bonavista, one of the Cape-de-Yerd Islands, to furnish the ship with salt, and from thence went immediately to St. Jago, another of the Cape-de-Verd Islands, in order to stock himself with provisions. When all this was done, he bent his course to Madagascar, the known rendezvous of pirates. In his way he fell in with. Capt. Warren, commodore of three men of war he acquainted him with his design, kept them company two or three days, and then leaving them, made the best of his way for, Madagascar, where he arrived in February, 1696, just nine months from his departure from Plymouth.
It happened that at this time the Orate ships were most of them out in search of prey; so that according to the best intelligence Capt. Kidd could get, there was not one of them at that time about the. island wherefore, having spent some time in watering his ship and taking in more provisions, he thought of trying his fortune on the coast of Malabar, where he arrived in the month of June following, four months from his reaching Madagascar. Hereabouts he made an unsuccessful cruise, touching sometimes at the island of Mohila, and sometimes at that of Johanna, between Malabar and Madagascar. His provisions were every day wasting, and his ship began to want repair: wherefore, when he was at Johanna, he found means of borrowing a sum of money from some Frenchmen who had lost their ship, but saved their effects, and with this he purchased materials for putting his ship in good repair.
It does not appear all this while that he had the least design of turning pirate; for near Mafia and Johanna both, he met with several Indian ships richly laden, to which he did not offer the least violence, though he was strong enough to have done what he pleased with them; and first outrage or depredation I find he committed upon mankind, was after his repairing his ship, and leaving Johanna ; he touched at a place called Mabbee, upon the Red Sea, where he took. some Guinea corn from the natives, by force. After this, he sailed to Bab's Key, a place upon a little island at the entrance- of the Red Sea. Here it was that he first began to open himself to his ship's company, and let them understand that he intended to change his measures; for, happening to talk of the Mocha fleet, which was to sail that way, he said, We have been unsuccessful hitherto; but courage, my boys, we'll make our fortunes out of this fleet; and finding that none of them appeared averse to it, he ordered  a boat out, well manned, to go upon the coast to make discoveries, commanding them to take a' prisoner and bring to him, or get intelligence any way they could. The boat returned in a few days, bringing him word, that they saw fourteen or fifteen shjps ready to sail, some with, English, some with Dutch, and some with Moorish colours.
We cannot account for this sudden change in his conduct, otherwise then by supposing that he first meant well, while he had hopes of making his fortune by taking of pirates; but now weary of ill success, and fearing lest his owners, out of honour at their great expenses, should dismiss him, and he should want employment, and be marked out for an unlucky man; rather, I say, than run the hazard of poverty, he resolved to do his business one way, since he could not do it another.
He therefore ordered a man continually to watch at the mast head, lest this fleet should go by them; and about four days after, towards evening, it appeared in sight, being convoyed by one English and one Dutch man of war, Kidd soon fell in with them, and getting into the midst of them, fired at a Moorish ship which was next him ; but the men of war taking the alarm, bore down upon Kidd, and firing upon him, obliged him to sheer off, he not being strong enough to contend with them. Now he had begun hostilities, he resolved to go on, and therefore he went and cruised along the coast of Malabar. The first prize he met was a small vessel belonging to Aden: the vessel was Moorish, and the owners were Moorish merchants,-but the master was an Englishman ; his name was Parker. Kidd forced him and a Portuguese that was called Don Antonio, which were all the Europeans on board, to take on with him ; the first he designed. as a pilot, and the last as an interpreter. He also used the men very cruelly, causing them to be hoisted up by the arms; and drubbed with a naked cutlass, to force them to discover whether they had money on board, and where it lay ; but as they had neither gold nor silver on board, he got nothing by his cruelty; however, he took from them a bale of pepper, and a bale of coffee, and so let them go.
A little time after he touched a Caraway, a place upon the same coast, where, before he arrived, the news of what he had done to the Moorish ship had reached them; for some of the English merchants there had received an account of it from the owners who coresponded with them ; wherefore, as soon as Kidd came in, he was suspected to be the person who committed this piracy ; and one Mr. Harvey and Mr Mason, two of the English factory, came on board and asked for Parker, and Antonio, the Portuguese ; but Kidd denied that he knew any such persons,having secured them both in a private place in the hold, where they were kept for seven or eight days, that is, till Kidd, sailed from thence.
However, the coast was alarmed, and a Portuguese man of war was sent out to cruise. Kidd met with her, and fought her about six hours, gallantly enough ; but finding her too strong to be taken he quitted her ; for he was able to run away from her when he would. Then he went to a place called Porca, where he watered the ship, and bought a number of hogs of the natives to victual his company.
Soon after this, be came up with a Moorish, ship, the master whereof was a Dutchman, called Schipper Mitchell, and chased her under French colours, which they observing, hoisted French colours too; when he came up with her, be hailed her in French, and they having a Frenchman on board, answered him in the same language; upon which be ordered them to send their boat on board ; they were obliged to do so, and having examined who they were, and from whence they came, he asked the Frenchman, who was a passenger, if he had a French pass for himself; the Frenchman gave him to understand that he had. Then be told the Frenchman he must pass for captain, and by says he, you are the captain : the Frenchman durst not refuse doing as he would have him. The meaning of this was, that he would seize the ship as fair prize, and as if she had belonged to French subjects, according to a commission he had for that purpose ; though, one would think, after what he had already done, theft, he need not have recourse to a quibble to give his actions a colour.
In short, he took the cargo, and Sold it some time after; yet still he seemed to have some fears upon him, lest these proceedings should have a bad end; for, coming up with a Dutch ship sometime after, when his men thought of nothingbut attacking her, Kidd opposed it; upon which a mutiny arose, and the majority being for taking the said ship, and arming themselves to man the boat to go and seize her, he told them, such as did, never should come on board him again; which put an-end to the design, so that he kept company with the said ship some time, without offering her any violence. However, this dispute was the occasion of an accident, upon which an indictment was after wards grounded against Kidd; for Moor, the gun- ner, being one day upon deck, and talking with Kidd, about the said Dutch ship, some words arose between them, and Moor told Kidd, that he had ruined them all; upon which, Kidd, calling him a dog, took up a bucket and struck him with it, which breaking his scull, he died the next day.
But Kidd's penitential fit did not last long, for coasting along Malabar, he met with a great number of boats, all which he plundered. Upon the same coast he also fell in with a Portuguese ship, which he kept possession ofa week, and then having taken out of her some chests of India goods, thirty jars of butter, with some wax, iron, and a hundred bags of rice, he let her go.
Much about the same time he went to one of the Malabar islands for wood and water, and his cooper being ashore, was-murdered by the natives ; upon which Kidd himself landed, and burnt and pillaged several of their houses, the people running away but having taken one, he caused him to be tied to a tree, and commanded one of his men to shoot him ; then putting to sea again he took the greatest prize which fell into his hands while he followed this trade : this was a Moorish ship of 400 tons, richly laden, named the Queda Merchant, the master whereof was an Englishman, by the name of Wright ; for the Indians often make use of English or Dutchmen to command their ships, their own mariners not being so good artists in navigation. Kidd chased her under French colours, and having come up with her, he ordered her to hoist out her boat, and to send on board of him, which being done, he told Wright he was his prisoner ; and informing himself concerning the said ship, he understood there were no Europeans on board, except two Dutch, and one Frenchman, all the rest being Indians or Armenians, and that the Armenians were part owners of the cargo. Kidd gave the Armenians to understand, that if they would offer any thing that was worth his taking for their ransom, he would hearken to it. Upon which, they proposed to pay him 20,000 rupees, not quite ?3000 sterling ; but Kidd judged this would be making a bad bargain, wherefore he rejected it, and setting the crew on shore, at different places on the coast, he soon sold as much of the cargo as came to ten thousand pounds. With part of it he also trafficked, receiving in exchange provisions, or such other goods as he wanted ; by degrees he disposed of the whole cargo, and when the division was made, it came to about ?200 a man ; and having reserved forty shares to himself, his dividend amounted to about ?8000 sterling.
The Indians along the coast came on board and trafficked with all freedom, and he punctually performed his bargains, till about the time he was ready to sail ; and then thinking he should have no further occasion for them, he made no scruple of taking their goads, and setting them on shore with out any payment in money or goods, which they little expected; for as they had been need to deal with pirates, they always found them men of honour in the way of trade; a people, enemies to deceit, and that scorned to rob but in their own way.
Kidd put some of his men on board the Queda Merchant, and with this ship and his own, sailed for Madagascar. As soon as he bad arrived and cast anchor, there came on board of him a canoe, in which were several Englishmen, who had formerly been wen acquainted with Kidd. As soon as they saw him they saluted him, and told him, they were informed he was come to take them, and hang them, which would be a little unkind in suck an old acquaintance. Kidd soon dissipated their doubts, by swearing he had no such design, and that he was now in every respect their brother, and just as bad as they; and calling for a cup of bomboo, drank their captain's health.
These men belonged to a pirate ship, called the Resolution, formerly the Mocha Merchant, whereof one Capt. Culliford was commander, and which lay at anchor not far from them. Kidd went on board with them, promising them his friendship and assistance, and Culliford in his turn came on board of Kidd ; and Kidd to testify his sincerity hi iniquity, finding Culliford in want of some necessaries, made him a present of an anchor and some guns, to fit him out for sea again.
The Adventure galley was now so old and leaky, that they were forced to keep two pumps continually going; whereforeKidd shifted all the guns and tackle out of her into the Queda Merchant, intend- ing her for his man of war; and as he had divided the money before, he now made a division of the remainder of the cargo : soon after which, the greatest part of the company left him, some going on board Capt. Culliford, and others absconding into the country, so that he had not above 40 men left.
He put to sea, and happened to touch at Amboyna, one of the Dutch spice islands, where he was told, that the news of his actions had reached England, and that he was there declared a pirate.
The truth of it is, his piracies so alarmed our merchants, that some motions were made in parliament, to inquire into the commission that was given him, and the persons who fitted him out These proceedings seemed to lean a little hard upon Lord Bellamont, who thought himself so much touched thereby, that he published a justification of himself in a pamphlet, after Kidd's execution. In a mean time it was thought advisable, in order to stop the course of these piracies, to publish a proclamation, offering the kin's free pardon to all such pirates as should voluntarily surrender themselves, whatever piracies they had been guilty of, at any time before the last day of April, 1699 that is to say, for all piracies committed eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, to the longitude and meridian of Socatora, and Cape Cormorin ; in which proclamation, Avery and Kidd were excepted by name.
When Kidd left Amboyna he knew nothing of this proclamation, for certainly had he had notice of his being excepted in it, he would not have heen so infatuated, as to run himself into the very jaws of danger ; but relying upon his interest with the lord BellamOnt, and fancying that a French pass or two he found on board some of the ships he took, would serve to countenance the matter, and that part of the booty he got would gain him new friends. I say all these things made him flatter himself that all would be bushed, and that justice would but wink at him. Wherefore he sailed directly for New York, where he was no s6oner arrived, but by the Lord
Bellamont's orders, he was secured with all his papers and effects. Many of his fellow adventurers, who had forsook him at Madagascar, came over from thence passengers, some to New England and some to Jersey; where hearing of the king's proclamation for pardoning of pirates, they surrendered themselves to the governor of those places At first they were admitted to bail, but soon after laid in strict confinement, where they were kept for some time, till an opportunity happened of sending them with their captain over to England to be tried.
Accordingly a sessions of admiralty being held at the Old Bailey, in May, 1701, Capt. Kidd, Nicho- las Churchill, James How, Robert Lumley, William Jenkins, Gabriel Loff, Hugh Parrot, Richard Barlicorn, Abel Owens, and Darby Mullins, were arraigned for piracy and robbery on the high seas, and all found guilty except three : these were Robert Lumley, William Jenkins, and Richard Barb-corn, who proving themselves to be apprentices to some of the officers of the ship, and producing their indentures in court, where acquitted.
The three above mentioned, though they were proved to be concerned in taking and sharing the ship and goods mentioned in the indictment, yet, as the gentlemen of the long robe rightly distinguished, there was a great difference between their circumstances and the rest; for then must go an intention of the mind and a freedom of the will to the committing an act of felony or piracy. A pirate is not to be understood to be under constraint, but a free agent ; for in this case, the bare act will not make a man guilty, unless the will make it so.
Now a servant, it is true, if he go voluntarily, and. have his proportion, he must be accounted-a pirate, for then he acts upon his own account, and not by compulsion ; and these persons, according to the evidence, received their part, but whether they accounted to their masters for their shares afterwards, is the matter in question, and what distinguishes them as free agents, or men that did go under the compulsion of their masters, which being left to the consideration of the jury, they found them not guilty.
Kidd was tried upon an indictment of murder also, viz. for killing Moor, the gunner, and found guilty of the same. Nicholas Churchill, and James How pleaded the king's pardon, as having surrendered themselves within the time limited in the proclama, tion, and Col. Bass, governor of West-Jersey, to whom they surrendered, being in court, and. called upon, proved the same. However, this plea was over-ruled by the court, because there being four commissioners named in the proclamation, viz. Capt. Thomas Warren, Israel Hayes, Peter Delannoye, and Christopher Pollard, Esqrs. who were appointed commissioners, and sent over on purpose to receive the submission of such pirates as should surrender, it was adjudged no other person was qualified to receive their surrender, and that they could not be entitled to the benefit of the said proclamation, because they bad not in all circumstances complied with the conditions of it.
Darby Mullins urged in his defence, that he served under the king's commission, and therefore could not disobey his commander without incurring great punishments; that whenever a ship or ships went out upon any expedition under the king's commission, the men were never allowed to call their officers to an account, why they did this, or why they did that, because such a liberty would destroy all discipline; that if any thing was done which was unlawful, the officers were to answer it, for the men did no more than their duty in obeying orders. He was told by the court, that acting under the commission justified in what was lawful, but not in what
was unlawful. He answered he stood in need of nothing to justify him in what was lawful, but the ease of seamen must he very hard, if they must be brought into such danger for obeying the commands of their officers, and punished for not obeying them, and if they were allowed to dispute the orders, there could be no such thing as command kept up at sea.
This seemed to be the best defence the thing could bear; but his taking a share of the plunder, the seamen's mutinying on board several times, and taking upon them to control the captain, showed there was no obedience paid to the commission; and that they acted in all things according to the custom of pirates and free-boot ers, which weighing with the jury, they brought him in guilty with the rest.
As to Capt. Kidd's defence, he insisted much on his own innocence, and the vill any of his men. He said, he went out in a laudable employment and bad no occasion, being then in good circumstances, to go a pirating ; that the men often mutinied against him, and did as they pleased; that he was threatened to be shot in the cabin, and that ninety-five left him at one time, and set fire to his boat, so that he was disabled from bringing his ship home, or the prizes he took, to have them regularly condemned, which he said were taken by virtue of a commission under the broad seal, they having French passes. The captain called one Col. Hewson to his reputation, who gave him an extraordinary character, and declared to the court, that he had. served under his command, and been in two engagements with him against the French, in which he fought as well as any man he ever saw; that there were only Kidd's ship and his own against Monsieur du Cass, who commanded a squadron of six sail, and they got the better of him. But this being several years before the facts mentioned in the indictment were committed, proved of no manner of service to the prisoner on his trial.
As to the friendship shown to CulWord, a notorious pirate, Kidd. denied, and said, he intended
to have taken him, but his men being a parcel of rogues and. villains refused to stand by him, and several of them ran away from his ship to the said. pirate. But the evidence being fall and particular- against him, he was found guilty as before mentioned.
When Kidd was asked what he had to say why sentence should not pass against him, he answered, that he had nothing to say, but that he had been sworn, against by perjured and wicked people. And when sentence was pronounced, he said, my Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the most innocent person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.
Wherefore about a week after, Capt. Kidd, Nicholas hurch ill, James How, Gabriel Loff, Hugh Parrot, Abel Owen, and Darby Mullins, were executed at Execution Dock, and afterwards hung up in chains, at some distance from each other, down the river, where their bodies hung exposed for many years.


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« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2009, 09:26:45 pm »
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Very interesting

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« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2009, 03:18:41 pm »
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Is this the same Capt. Kidd who hid treasure on Oak Island, also known as the money pit, in Nova Scotia?

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« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2009, 08:12:59 pm »
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Search For Capt. Kidd's Treasure.



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« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2009, 10:37:07 am »
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this cap you talk abut has betrade the great alexander in lattakia for a woman

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hello sir,here in phillipines lot of sign bot i don"t know how to find such treasure because luck of knowledge about signs.

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« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2010, 05:57:07 pm »
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Aargh! Kidd be no Pirate! He was just another scoundrel and had no treasure to speak of, other he would be livin in Jamica and drinking rum to this day... Aargh!!

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« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2010, 01:36:37 pm »
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Ah, those were the days... Fight

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« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2010, 06:32:26 pm »
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I remember reading something about an auction in England back about 15 or 20 years ago.  Capt Kidds furniture was sold and guess what?  A Treassure Map was found secreted in a hollowed out leg of a chair or desk.  It was of an area in the South China sea if I remember right only his map could have been any one of a number of islands.  I don't remember anything else about it.  But in those days of long ago good men turned to being a priveteer [ok'ed by the King to be a pirate].  Perhaps Capt. Kidd didn't give all his loot to the Kings men and stashed treasure all over the world.  The King got wind of his privateer turning pirate and hung him at public execution to put a stop to stealing the ill gotten gains?  Is the Oak Island Treasure one of Capt. Kidds?

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« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2010, 12:09:08 am »
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There was not but his bones on display for a good long time after he  was executed.  One can only wonder why he was so poor at capture...  Aargh!  There be a cave off of ole Acadia that when entered at high tide reaches well into the granite cliffs. It be so dark back there and the waters surge in and out with the waves but it be said that chests of iron filled with bounty lie in the water.  Aargh! Me has swam in but was all but dead trying to swim out. We rigged aline to pull on to our schooner.. it was all that saved us.. Kidd's curse and hiedeous laughter can sometime be heard at the mouth of that cave when the moon is full and the ocean afogged. 'I'll not be back there ever again. I say it a trap for the living to join the pirates who be dead... :Smiley Fight

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