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...eventually cool. The mysteries of the confessional stripped away, the couple see each other for what they are: rather drab, aging, unattractive people. The "holy night of love" turns into a quarrelsome hell. The lady returns to the church. Giovanni, now defrocked, joins a ship of cutthroats, who plunder and murder but who, at least, have no illusions about themselves. "The sea is the only thing I do feel is holy," says Giovanni. "However it may storm and rage, I thank it. Because it's cruel and hard and ruthless, and yet gives peace. Surrender utterly...
French administrators tamed the Tuaregs only by treating them with moderation. In return for giving up their rez-zous-raids for slaves and plunder-and such practices as impaling thieves on spikes placed under their chins and armpits, the Tuaregs were permitted to roam the Sahara as if there were no boundaries. And the French always winked when the Tuaregs cheated on their cattle taxes...
Talented Bedouins. A leading expert on the Nabataeans, Dr. Philip C. Hammond Jr. of Princeton Theological Seminary, is watching this operation with quiet satisfaction. The Nabataeans, he explains, were a wave of Bedouins who swept out of the Arabian Desert about 300 B.C. At first they lived by plunder, with a sideline of piracy on the Red Sea; later they saw the advantages of civilization and proved to be both talented and adaptable. They took the unpromising lands that had fallen to them -the Sinai Peninsula and the dry fringes around Palestine-and made them amazingly fruitful...
...free-wheeling pirate in a hoard of plunder...
...buccaneering days of the 17th century, Jamaica was the lustiest port of call on the Spanish Main. Out of old Port Royal, in its time the "wickedest city in Christendom," Henry Morgan and his marauding mates sailed to wreck and plunder. On their return, the pirates swaggered through the narrow streets with barrels of rum on their shoulders, harlots on their arms, daggers in their belts and ill-gotten pieces of eight in their pockets. An appalled visitor once described it as a place where "the body of a murdered man would remain in a dancing room until the dancing...