Dead man's chest: Legend has it that Blackbeard marooned a shipload of mutineers on an island known as Dead Man's Chest (which earned its name through its resemblance to a floating coffin and is actually little more than a rock outcropping in Deadman's Bay on Peter Island, near Tortola), leaving them each a cutlass and a bottle of rum, assuming that the traitors would murder each other in a drunken brawl. Upon Blackbeard's return a month later, he was surprised to see that fifteen men had survived the grisly ordeal. The legend was memorialized in verse by Robert Louis Stevenson.