contents Pirate A Pirate Ship Life on Board 10 Blackbeard 12 Walking the Plank 14 Cutlass and Flintlock 16 18 Sneaky Tactics Stand by to Board Booty Haul 20 Pirate Haunts 24 Dressed Like a Pirate 26 That's Your Lot 28 Ten Peculiar Pirate Facts 3 Glossary 31
Pirate It's the year 1717 and you re in the city of Charleston in the North Carolina colony My name is Jamie Flynn There's a forest of ships tied up against the pier Some ships have slaves from Africa Others are headed back to Europe But who are those shifty looking men over there Uh oh They've spotted me listening They're coming this way Agh too late Before I can struggle they've put a sack over my head and thrown me into a rowboat Sharp eyes eh He's just what we need for a lookout Then it all goes black I've been kidnapped by pirates III
WW HHHHI Florida Do Golden Age of Piracy Between 1716 and 1726 pirate ships roamed the seas near America and into the Caribbean Many a lone ship caught sight of a pirate ship racing toward them over the waves and knew they were doomed Historians now call it the Golden Age of Piracy But for at the victims of pirates Gulf of Mexico CH it was anything but THE golden Pirate leaders IHL such as Black Bart Black Sam Bellamy and Calico Jack were ruthless cutthroats and you didn't want to be on a ship attacked Hby one of them Dominican Republic 10 Caribbean Sea D WARNING If you live in a seaport you d better watch out for press gangs ruthless gangs that recruit pirates by
