The Spanish and Portuguese, followed by the French, were the first seafarers and explorers of new lands. These people are also known worldwide for their…
The world is full of mysteries. After the rain, a rainbow shines in the sky. It mesmerizes and beckons over the horizon. How many colors…
An atoll is a ring of islands with a lagoon in the middle. The lagoon is the crater of a volcano that died millions of…
Preface. Much has been written about the Pirates of the Caribbean, literary and colorful and written by such masters as Daniel Defoe and Robert Lewis…
Piracy has existed since ancient times when a man put a sail on a boat and went to sea. Immediately there were sea robbers who…
In the spring of 1718, the two-masted Bristol brig ‘Cadogan’, commanded by Captain Skinner, was loading slaves in the port of Gambia on the Sierra…
John Roberts was an assistant captain on the English ship Princess, which carried black slaves from Africa to the New World. In June 1719, after…
It is generally accepted that pirates are bandits and murderers, the scum of society. Most of them were, and still are. But if some thieves,…
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the colonial wars in the New World came to an end. The Spanish, French, English, and Dutch, who…
Years ago I was a commercial industrial fisherman. Once I was fishing for pleasure and caught a young white shark, five feet long. The big…
