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=The Buccaneers =

"For the first time in our voyage I was glad we had our four little guns and the little man that worked them, as strange as he was" said John.

John felt small compared to the size of the ocean and when the life raft was coming toward them he felt a little less small because of the guns on his ship.

"The action on the seas is as constant as the waves." --KLIATT

"Not a human one," said I. "I'll carry sugar, but I'll have no part in slavery."

John was disgusted that the man at the port told him that he needed slaves to do his work on the ship and that it was ok.

"The suction," said Horn. "It will hold them all down. Davy Jones won't give up on of that lot."

Now that the other ships crew, that was chasing them, are being eaten by the sharks they can stop worrying about the pirates chasing them, killing them and cutting off their arms and get back to their original reason for the trip, to make money.

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All pirates lived by a code of their own. They didn't like it when anyone crossed them or stole from them, even though that is what they did for a living. Punishment was harsh and quick. Like the picture of the skull and cross bones above that is usually how the other person was punished. They either cut off some part of their body, like in the book they cut off arms for payment of a debt (each arm was worth 10 guineas), or made them walk the plank in shark infested waters so the sharks would kill them.



The pirate ship had to sail through all kinds of weather and like the picture above it was pretty rough sometimes. In the book they had to sail through alot of bad weather and they blamed alot of it on superstition and the evil eye. Sometimes the weather is so rough that the ships break apart or take on water or sometimes even sink, leaving the crew out on the big ocean in a small dingy trying not to capsize. The pirate life was not an easy life.