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Contents
Whot
ore
pirotes?
Pirqte
ships
Life
on
boord
Pirote
weopons
Fernole
pirotes
Pirqte
treosure
Pirqte
lows
Life
qshore
A
pirqte's
fote
Fornous
pirotes
Fontqstic
fqcts

Amqzing
pirote
owords
Glossory
Index
page
6
8
10
L2
L4
16
18
20
22
24
26
28
30
31
Some
words
qppeff
in
bold
in
this
book.
Turn
to

the
glossory
to leorn
qbout
them.
Whot
dre
pirdtes?
The
word
pirote
meons
'ottocker'.
Pirotes
were
men,
ond
Sometimes
women,
who
coptured
merchcrnt
ships.
They
stole
o
ship's
treqsure
ond
goods,

plus
sometimes
the
ship
os
well.
Some
lorge
merchqnt
ships
corried
o
lot
of
gold
qnd
treqsure.
Pirotes
who
coptured
these
ships
could
become
very
rich,
very
quickly.
Some
merchant

ships
didn't
just
coruy gold.
They
were
decorqted
with
it,
too!
Pirates
fought
fiercely.
They
could
olso
be
very
cruel
to
coptured
soilors.
Others
were
smoll,
with
just
o
few
guns

ond
o smoll
crew.
Smoll
ships
were
colled
sloops
or
cutters.
Pirdte
ships
Pirote
ships
come
in
mony
shopes
ond
srzes.
Some
were
big,
with
over
twenty
ctrnnons
ond
200
men.

Pirqte
copto.ins
flew
frightening
flogs
on
their
ships.
These
were
used
to
scqre
the
crews
of
merchont
ships,
so
they
would
surrender
without
o
fight.
Pirete
flags
were
cqlled
Jolly

rogers'.
Blockbeqrd's
flog
Thomos
!
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Lorge
pirote
ships
ottocked
big
merchont
ships
corrying
mony
goods.
Thot meont
more treosure
for
the
pirotes!
lorge
pirote
ship
ll
"#
inlet

-
sloop
Ioops
or
cutters
were
smqll
enough
,
hide
in
inlets,
but
they
could
only
It,ock
smoll
merchqnt
boots.
I
8
Stede
Bonnet's
flog
Henry
Avery's
flog
Pirqtes
sqng

shcrnties
to
keep
time
with
eqch
other
os
they
worked.
Pirdte
wedPonS
Pirotes
usuolly
tried
to
boord
o
merchont
shiP,
rother
thon
dctmoge
it
in
bqttle.
TheY
fought
Pirqtes
used

cD(es
to
help
them climb
up
o
ship's
wooden
sides.
the
crew
with
swords
cqlled
cutlcrsses
ond
doggers.
In
bqttle,
pirote
shiPs
fired
cqnnonbcrlls
of
merchqnt
shiPs'
The
botls
ripped
through

soils
qnd
rigging.
The
domoge
to
its scrils
stopped
the
shiP
from
soiling
owoy.
Spiked
pieces
of metol
shoped
like
o
storfish were thrown
onto the
deck
of
q
merchont
ship.
They
were
colled
crow's

feet
ond coused
terrible injuries if
someone
trod on them.
Femole
pirdtes
Most
women
only
went
to
seo
to
be
with
their
soilor
husbqnds.
However,
cr
few
of
these
women
joined
pirote
crews
ond
become

pirotes.
The
most
fqmous
femole
pirotes
were
Anne
Bonny
qnd
Mory
Reqd.
heod scorf
Women
were
not
usuolly
qllowed
on
pirote
ships.
They
dressed
in men's
clothes
to
Alf,
dissuise
f
themselves.

woist
sqsh
shoel
stocking
-
L4
Anne
Bonny
ond
Mory
Reod
fought
with
o
crew
run
by
{
Jqck
Rqckhqm
MoryReqd
I
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I
Anne
Bo
Mory
ond
Anne
were

eventuolly
cought
by
the
British
norr5r.
Mory
died
in
prison,
but
Anne
wcrs
loter
releqsed.
""[
Pirdte
tredsure
Pirotes
stole
oll sorts
of
things,
but
gold
ond
treosure
were
most
vqluoble.

Pirotes
qlso
stole
goods
such
os
socks of
rice
ond sugor,
bqrrels
of
molqsses or
dried
fish
ond
even
cloth.
Pirotes
sold
the
goods
when
they
sailed
into
port.
Pirotes often
wore
foncy,
brightly

coloured
clothes.
They
bought
them with
the
money they
stole.
Pirotes
stole
ony
coins
they
could
find.
Doubloons
were
coins
mqde
from
heovy gold.
Pieces
of
eight
were
smoller
coins
mode
from
silver.

Only
q
few
pirotes
buried
their
treqsure.
Most
spent
it.
Pirdte
lows
Articles
were
rules
thot
pirotes
ogreed
to before they
could
join
o crew.
The
rules
explqined
how
treqsure
would
be
divided

up
qnd
how
pirotes
should
behove.
Pirotes
were
punished
if
they
broke the
rules
especiolly
if
they
stole
from
crnother
pirote.
One
punishment
wos colled
'wolking
the
plonk'.
Pirotes
were
mqde
to

jump
into
the
oceon
-
then the ship
scriled
owqy!
Sometimes
pirotes
were left
on
lcrr-owoy
islonds
on
their
own.
This
1runishment
wos colled morooning.
Treqsure
wqs
divided
:
i
!':-
into
piles
qt
the end

:
'
of
q
trip.
Often, o
blindfolded
pirote
chose
who
got
eqch
pile.
19
Life
clShore
Pirotes
soiled
into
ports
to
find
food
ond
wotey,
ond
to
repoir
their
ships.

They
olso
sold
their
treosure
in
ports.
Pirotes
hod
to
be coreful
oshore.
If
they
were
cctught,
they
could
be
orrested
ond
put
on
triql.
Pirqtes
hod
fun in
ports.
They
spent

the money
they
rnode
of
seo
on wild
porties,
food
ond
drink!
Seoweed
qnd
bcrrnccles
grew
on
the
bottom
of
pirote
ships.
They
were
scroped
off
the
ship
while
it
wos
qshore.

Modogoscor
is
on
islond
off
the
coost
of
Africo.
Between
1680
ond
L7L0,
it
becqme
o
pirqte
islond.
Pirotes
set
up
home
there
with
their
fqmilies.
Some
pirotes
gombled
rll

of
their
money
when
I
hey
come
qshore.
2L
A
pirdte's
f
ate
Some
pirotes
were
lucky.
They
mode
o
lot
of
money ond
retired
to
enjoy
it.
Others
were
not

so
fortunote.
Some
died
in
bottle
or
were
killed by
other
pirotes.
If
cought,
pirotes
were
punished
horribly.
Coptured
pirotes
were usuolly
honged. Sometimes
their bodies
were
put
in
ct
metql
frqme 0s o
worning
to

other
pirotes.
This wos
known os being
hung
in
irons.
Pirotes
were often
meosured
to
fit
their
frome
before
they
were
honged.
o
Sometimes,
pirotes
were
brqnded
os o
punishment.
This
meqnt
being
burned
with

o hot iron
shope,
to
mork
them
for
life.
pillory
h
il
Pillories were
wooden
boords
thot
held
people
by
their
wrists
ond necks.
Pirotes were
choined
to
them
so
people
could
throw
things
of

them,
or
coll them nornes.
22
metol frorne
23
Edwqrd
Low
wqs
such o
cruel
coptoin
thot his own
crew
set
him
crdrift
in
o rowing
boot
with
no
food
ond
woter!
Ching
Shih
wos
the
wife

of
q
Chinese
pirote
coptain.
When he
died,
she
took
control
of his
crew
qnd
becqme
o.n even
greoter
coptoin
thqn
her
husbond.
Ching
Shih
ruled
1,800
ships
qnd
their
crews,
ond
stole

treosure
from
everywhere
olong
the
coost
of
Chino.
;i;
Fontostic
facts
Sometimes
pirote
ships flew
o
red
flog. The
flog
told
other
ships
thqt
the
pirotes
would
fight
to
the deqth
qnd
kill

everyone
on
boord.
Pirqtes
were not
qllowed
to
steql from
eqch
other.
If
they
did,
their
eors
ond nose
were
cut
off
0s
q
punishment.
A
pirote
crew
could
use
their
coptoin's
cobin

whenever
they
wqnted.
Blqckbeqrd's
fovourite
drink
wqs rum
mixed
with
gunpowder!
Pirqte
ccptoins
poid
their crew
for
ony injuries
received
in
bottle.
A
finger
or tln
eye
could
be worth
100
silver
pieces.
Some
pirotes

moy
hove
been
poid
600
silver
pieces
for
on injured
leg
or
orm.
Christopher
Moody's
flog
If
they
didn't
like
their
coptoin,
pirote
crews
could
vote
for
q
new
one.
Eqch pirote

coptoin
designed
his
own
flog.
O
Coptured
pirotes
were
not
olwoys
honged.
Some
were
pordoned.
Thqt
meqnt
their
king
forgcve
them.
o
Coptoin
Kidd
mode
qbout
two
million pounds
crs
q

pirote.
He
wos
one
of
the richest pirotes.
a
shipurecked
or
morooned
pirotes
often
found
very
little
food
on
desert
islcrnds.
Rqther
thqn
storve,
they
sometimes
ote
their
belongings,
or
eoch
other!

In 1695
pirote
coptoin
Henry
Avery
stole
qll
the
treqsure
on
boqrd the
Gang
-I-
Sawai
.
It
wqs
worth
qbout
I40
million
pounds
in
todoy's money!
In 17L8
Blockbeord
qnd
his
pirote
friend

Chqrles
Vqne
threw
o
porty
for
their crews.
It lqsted
for
over
q
week!
Edword
Englond's
crew
thought he
wcrs
too
kind.
They
socked
him
ond left
him
on o
desert islond!
Am
o'zi
n9
pirdte

dwdrds
*
sh@ffir@st
c@m@@m
Just
one hour
ofter
John
Eoton
become
o
pirote,
he
wos
coptured
by
the no\y.
He
wos honged
for
being
port
of
q
pirote
crew.
{
I
The
Royal

Fortune
wos
the
most
powerful
pirqte
ship.
It
wqs
o
worship
ond hod
52
guns.
Johnny Bleord
become
q.
pirote
when he
wqs
just
13
yeors
old!
Closso
ry
adrift
-
when
someone

is
put
in
o boot
ond
left
of
seo.
orrested
-
to
be held
in
prison
for
breoking
the lqw.
barnocles
-
smqll
onimols
that
con
glue
themselves
to
rocks
qnd
ships.
ccnnon

-
o
big
gun
thqt
fires
metql
bqlls.
cdnnonboll
-
q
metol
bolt
fired
from
o cqnnon.
cutlosS-oheorysword
with
q
short
blode.
desert
island
-
on islond
thqt no
one
lives
on.
gomble

-
to
bet
money,
or
possessions.
goods
-
onything
thqt
con
be
bought,
such
qs
food
clothes
ond furniture.
gunpowder
-
o
powder
thqt
mokes
explosions
when it
is lit.
inlet
-
where

the
seo
reoches
further
inlond
thon
the rest
of the
coqst.
merchant
shiF
-
q
ship
thot
conies
goods.
molasses
-
q
type
of
thick,
dork
syrup.
ncvy
-
soilors
ond
ships

thot
work
for
the
king
or
government
of
o country.
port
-
o town
next
to
o
horbour.
retire
-
when
someone
stops
working.
rigging
-
ropes
thot hold
up mosts.
Shanty
-
o song

thot hos
o
strong
rhythm
ond
is
used
to help
people
work.
shipwrecked
-
when
o
ship
is
destroyed
ond
the
crew
ore
forced
to
qbondon
it.
tricrl
-
when
o court
heors

how
tr
person
hqs
broken
the
low
ond
decides
how
they
will
be
punished.
wcrrship
-
o ship
built
to fight
bottles
of
seq.
30
31
Index
A
orticles
Avery
Henry
18

9,28
B
Blockbeqrd
9,24,26,28
Bleord,
Johnny
Zg
Bonnet,
Stede
g
Bonny,
Anne
L4-L5
c
ccrnnons
8, 12,80
connonbolls
LZ,
B0
clothes
10,
14,
16
cutlqsses
L2,
g0
D
desert
islqnds
27,

28,
B0
E
Eoton,
John
Zg
Englond,
Edword
28
F
flogs
g,
26-27
food
11,
lG,
20,25,27
G
gombling
ZL,
B0
gold
G-7,
I6-L7
guns
8,29
gunpowder
2G,90
L
Low,

Edword
25
tr
mcrooning
19,27
merchont
ships
G-7,8-9,
12-13,
30
Moody,
Christopher
26
ltt
novy,
the
L5,29
P
pirote
ships
8-9,
10-11,
L2,2L,29
ports
16,
20,
g0
punishment
1b,
18-19,

22-23,26-27
R
Rqckhqm,
Jock
15
Reod,
Mary
L4-I5
s
shonties
Shih,
Ching
shipwrecks
T
treosure
6,
8, I6-L7,
Lg,
20,29
Tew,
Thomqs
g
w
worships
weevils
11,
30
25
27,
30

29,30
11
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lor
qll
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who
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