7 myths about pirates (photo + 7 letters) Bashny.Net

Our understanding of the pirates, alas, badly marred by books such as "Treasure Island" Stevenson where neprosyhayuschie pirates eventually quickly find themselves without a ship on the island.
The reality was quite different, of course, there were also frost-bitten tramps that software were removed drank and walked, but this audience quickly enough, hung on the waterfront and the resin body - that they are better preserved and enjoy respectable public walk on the waterfront among the gallows could last at least a couple of months (the poor man hung Kidd quarter century).
Read heroes "Treasure Island," a clear example of the pirates it's like to make a film about the Mafia guided by stories about Gopnik.





These pirates were serious guys. Get at least a co-driver Billy Bones - a real Billy Bones would be very honorable gentleman. Do not believe? Then try to learn how to determine longitude by lunar distances tables. I assure you, is not for the fools, and certainly not for alcoholics - the navigator had to be constantly on the alert, and his slightest mistake could lead to disaster - before the invention of the chronometer and a simple algorithm for determining longitude at him, hundreds of British ships were lost in the ocean due to the navigation errors, and to make them inadvertently was very easy. Actually why the British Admiralty and has promised to those who invent a simple and reliable method of determining longitude lot of money and paid their inventor chronometer (longitude was determined by the difference between local and Greenwich time).



Discipline on ships venerable pirates almost equal to the discipline of military ships, and the first pirate statutes, known as "Jamaican mandate" appeared 200 years before the first statutes for the sailors of merchant ships. "Jamaican mandate" with various additions and changes apply to all without exception, known pirates. Terms were very interesting - for example, while swimming was forbidden to get drunk, and some ships were any general prohibition. In the evening at 8 o'clock on a ship put out all the lights, and if anyone wanted to continue the conversation, they went up on deck so as not to interfere with other comrades to sleep. Or, for example, the iron rule of Pirates - no explanation of the relationship on the board. Otherwise find out the relationship stretched under the keel - for cooling. If showdown pirates had to go to the quartermaster and complain about the offender. To sort things out and get drunk three sheets only allowed on the beach - that's why pirates have been waiting for the moment to return to shore.



Rules clearly defined as to who gets the loot. Most received capital - up to 10 lobes, least of all - the ship's carpenter, who was not involved in the battles. Swag shared by all the pirates elected quartermaster. Moreover, the rules are numbers compensation for each wound and so on. Each pirate had to sign a rule, his hand on the Bible. Or at least put a fingerprint. Unfortunately, there is still quite a little pirate rules - at risk of being immediately thrown overboard - after all there were the signatures that could be used in court.



Pirate captains were also uneasy people. Bartholomew Roberts never swore to abstain from alcohol and smoking, elegantly dressed and arranged every Sunday for their Sunday service goons on board. Cavendish, for whom there was no problem to throw prisoners overboard into the open sea, free time devoted to science - with his servant he collected herbarium, stuffed stuffed animals, conducted scientific observations and loved philosophical debates. This wonderful man first found and described several species of plants then unknown to science.



Or, for example, Henry Morgan - he seriously considered himself a decent man and all ears buzzed with stories of his contemporaries decency. When his ship's surgeon Alexander Ekskvemelin wrote the book "Pirates of America," which describes the raid Henry Morgan, who was very offended and sued him in court. Lawyers Morgan were good and they proved that Morgan - no honest sailor and not a pirate, and Ekskvemelin - a liar. The court ruled to pay Morgan £ 200 in damages and ordered the author to withdraw from its future editions of this cowardly lie. Then Morgan was able to visit the vice-governor of Jamaica, in this position, he even caught fellow pirates and London promised to eradicate the evil, which is a piracy. He died the famous robber plantations ... venerable planter in Port Royal.
In the 1730s the glorious era of the pirates is over, and with it went, and many certificates of pirate life in those days ...



7 myths about pirates

1. Pirates of the buried treasures
In fact, the life of a pirate was short and they did it only when absolutely necessary. Pirate treasure known not so much
2. Pirates of the prisoners were forced to walk the plank
In fact, they loved to stretch through the keel, the first walk on the board mentioned after the golden age of piracy - in 1785.
3. The pirates were notions of honor
There were, but only for themselves. With respect to prisoners allowed anything. Blackbeard not impede remove rings from fingers ladies - it is their right hand chopped and thrown into the bag.
4. Pirates got nicknames instead of names for the ship started a new life
Nothing like that, they just did not want law enforcement know their real name - is unsafe.
5. Pirates stormed every ship
Nothing like this - on the whole respectable merchant ships cargo was insured, and they simply gave it to pirates, hoping to agree. And dogovorivatsya in most cases.
6. Pirates used the "Jolly Roger" as the flag
Not at all. Many of them simply use the flag to the patron saint of
7. The pirates had black mark
No, the Black label came up with Stevenson.

Text sabpost



Source: