Buccaneer Mystery Cache

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tuppergurl: Arrrrrrrrrchived by the evil pirates tuppArrrrrrrgurl an' crackArrrrrrrrrjackie an' =Ge-HoJoe= in honor o' th' 2015 Cache Like a Pirate V (5th Annual) event. Arr, me heaties n'er be findin' th' loot!

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Hidden : 9/29/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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A cache placed for the event GC3WA85 - Cache Like a Pirate (2nd Annual) as part of a race to the final event cache.  Please disregard the letters on the lid of the cache as the final for the race is not published.

The term buccaneer derives from the Caribbean Arawak word buccan, a wooden frame for smoking meat, preferably manatee. From this became derived in French the word boucane and hence the name boucanier for French hunters who used such frames to smoke meat from feral cattle and pigs on Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic). English colonists anglicised the word boucanier to buccaneer.
 
About 1630, some Frenchmen who were driven away from the island of Hispaniola fled to nearby Tortuga. The Spaniards tried to drive them out of Tortuga, but the buccaneers were joined by many other French, Dutch and English and turned to piracy against Spanish shipping, generally using small craft to attack galleons in the vicinity of the Windward Passage. Finally they became so strong that they even sailed to the mainland of Spanish America and sacked cities.
 
English settlers occupying Jamaica began to spread the name buccaneers with the meaning of pirates. The name became universally adopted later in 1684 when the first English translation of Alexandre Exquemelin’s book The Buccaneers of America was published.

N     49  KN PFE
W   097 RD SMA

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