AHOY
Matey,
So ye be huntin
for my Pirates Booty? It won’t be as easy as ye think. I
hornswaggled some of the bloodiest pirates on the seven seas to
amass such a booty, and I will join them in Davey Jones’ Locker
before ye get the secrets from me. Avast ye, if you are lucky
enough to find me map, ye will still have to decipher me code to
find the spot for The Booty. Each spot contains a clue to
deciphering the map. There is no beginning or middle but there are
two ends, one filled with riches and glory, the other just might
have ye Dancin the Hempen Jig. If ye find all me clues, the map,
and the legend , ye have proven worthy to tempt ye fate with The
Booty. Study thy enemies well, for it might just keep ye from
walking the plank. If ye do happen to find me treasure, ye be
cursed with the Black Spot for a 1000 years if you take more than
ye’s share.
Ye have been
WORNED!!
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Jean David Nau
was born in France around 1635. After a period of indentured
servitude in ended in the early 1650's, he spent a time on
Hispaniola hunting game with the Buccaneers before moving to nearby
Tortuga to pursue the more profitable route of piracy. Tortuaga's
governor La Place, a pirate himself, gave Nau his own ship around
1655, which he used cruel pursuit of any Spanish ships and sailors
that he found. His merciless treatment earned him nickname, "The
Flail of the Spaniards", but it also produced more resistance when
his victims believed death was fighting would hurt no less. An
early setback came when he suffered shipwreck during a storm off
the Yucatan peninsula. Though most of the crew made it to shore,
they were then slaughtered by Spanish soldiers. In a clever display
of survival, L'Olonnais escaped by hiding among the dead until he
could enter Campeche dressed like a Spaniard and find assistance.
With the help of some slaves, he was able to steal away in a canoe
under cover of darkness and return to Tortuga, thereafter pouring
out his increasing hatred of the Spanish by increasing the scale
and severity of his land raids. With Michel de Basco as a partner,
L'Olonnais sailed for the Gulf of Venezuela in 1667 with a flotilla
of eight ships and around 600 men. A land-based attack on the small
fortifications the outskirts of Lake Maracaibo proved effective,
and the cities of Maracaibo Gibraltar were taken and plundered over
the next few weeks. Many who fled were captured and tortured to
reveal their hidden valuables. There was no one to stop the brutal
rape and murder of countless souls throughout the countryside. Upon
returning to Tortuga to divide over a quarter-million pieces of
eight, gems, silks, silver, L'Olonnais began planning an even
greater assault at Lake Nicaragua while the plunder was being
redistributed to the local taverns and prostitutes. After beginning
with six ships and 700 men, uncooperative winds led them to the
impoverished town of Puerto Caballos, where tortured citizens
offered neighboring San Pedro as a better target. An ambush of
Spanish soldiers on the way killed many of the pirates. L'Olonnais'
solution was allegedly to cut out and gnaw on the heart of one of
the prisoners in hopes one of the others would offer a safer route.
For all his bloody effort, San Pedro proved to be just as poor, and
the commanders of the other ships began to desert. The 'Flail' held
his own crew together enough to attempt the raid in Nicaragua, but
they wound up merely running aground south of their destination.
Everyone but L'Olonnais and a few others sailed a small boat home
to Tortuga; he actually took the time to build a smaller ship from
scrap, holding to his plans of another great venture. It was
decided to march to the Gulf of Darien, but the Darien Indians
caught them near the Nicaragua River. L'Olonnais was literally torn
apart, and some report that these cannibals ate him... in a fitting
twist of irony.
The Pirate's Booty Series:
Pirate’s Booty: Black Bart
Pirate’s Booty: Black Beard
Pirate’s Booty: Captain Kidd
Pirate’s Booty: Francois L. Ollonais
Pirate’s Booty: Samuel Bellamy
Pirate’s Booty: Sir Francis Drake
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Pirate’s Booty: Sir Henry Morgan
Pirate’s Booty: Sir John Hawkins
Pirate’s Booty: Stede Bonnet
Pirate’s Booty: Barbarossa Brothers
Pirate’s Booty: The Plunder
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