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Re: My pirate lexicon.
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Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:19:15 GMT
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On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> And rather than refer to various books myself, the interested reader
> should check out:
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> http://www.discover.net/~nqgiven/bibl.htm
Great link! Thanks.
Want to hear a mindblower? I didn't really start to read up on Carribean
or pirate history until the mid-nineties. It wasn't until then that I
read about Sir Francis Drake and the buccaneer raids on Panama.
What's interesting about that? In 1991, while with the National Guard, I
went to Panama to build roads and bridges and repair schools in a poor
area east of Colon. Our compound was in a thicket near a circular bay,
which was necessary because the heavy bulldozers and earth movers had to
be amphibiously landed. There was a nice little town on the shore of this
bay, near the compound. We would buy sodas and other goods in this town.
I remember the name of the town quite well, given that I was acting as
translator for my company and I really liked the unique name this town
had, "Name Of God". I had wondered what those ruins at the tips of the
bay were.
What was the Spanish name? Nombre De Dios.
I wish to this day that I had driven one of our deuce-and-a-halfs out
there. I do have a decent shot of some fortifications along the coast
about mid-way to Colon, taken from the bus. Get this, I think they were
at Portobelo. *sigh*
Jeffrey.
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| (...) Ack, yes. I wrote on the Circumnavigation (1577-80) as a lowly undergraduate. ;) I've always wondered if Drake can be considered a true "buccaneer" or pyrate; he was operating under marque from Elizabeth, and was a privateer very much in the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) We be the Jerky Boyz 2 Pyrates. We be cool. (...) Under the Black Flag was good general overview of Pirates and their mythification. A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates by Captain Charles Johnson (there (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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