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In the late ith Century piracy was a flourishing business-not only in the Spanish Main but off the North American coast, in the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and the East Indies. And the line between pirate and privateer was as thin as the line between hijacker and bootlegger...
With luck, Author Wilkins thinks Kidd might have stayed on the right side of the law. But his luck was out. His crew, a hard lot, was mutinous, more than half piratical from the start. And when he did bump into a pirate he sometimes embarrassingly turned out to be...
Lord Bellomont wrote Kidd two weasel letters to lure him ashore, then clapped him in jail, sent him to London. At his trial Kidd was not allowed counsel. As evidence that the prizes he had taken were legitimate, he had kept their French "passes" (commissions); but these vital papers had...
No sooner had Kidd been laid by the heels than rumors of his buried treasure spread like wildfire, set amateur treasure-seekers (and still does) searching and digging. One reason: the "treasure" captured with Kidd was disappointingly small, indicated to optimists that more must be cached somewhere. Another: in a...
In recent years a friend of his who collects buccaneering relics has acquired at different times four maps, ostensibly initialled and annotated by Kidd himself, of an island in "a certain remote Far Eastern sea." The first three maps gave no latitude or longitude; the fourth, strangely enough, gave both...