Welcome to Port Royal
This port is open to knaves, privateers, merchantmen, pirates, and any other unseemly character you call yourself. I just ask that you don't fire your thundermug (signal cannon) to summon the harbourmaster. We the people of Port Royal will assume that you won't bring any contraband or plague ashore. Just be sure to sign the ledger quietly. We wouldn't want to notify or alarm any of the residents of the port to your presence. You do NOT have to leave the pier to access the ledger. DO NOT CLIMB ON THE ROCKS.
Port Royal was a city located at the end of the Palisadoes at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica. It was the center of shipping commerce in the Caribbean Sea during the latter half of the 17th century. It was one home port of the privateers employed to nip at superpower Habsburg Spain's empire when smaller European powers dared not directly make war on Spain. As a port city, it was notorious for its gaudy displays of wealth and loose morals, and was a popular place and base (homeport) for the English and Dutch sponsored privateers to bring and spend their treasure during the 17th century. When those governments abandoned the practice of issuing letters of marque against the Spanish treasure fleets and possessions in the later 16th century, many privateers turned pirate and used the city as their main base during the heyday of the Caribbean pirates in the 17th century. Pirates from around the world congregated at Port Royal coming from waters as far away as Madagascar.
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