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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: names, no doubt, still standing in a row in the provincial
records.
But did Blackbeard really bury treasures, as tradition says,
along the sandy shores he haunted?
Master Clement Downing, midshipman aboard the Salisbury, wrote a
book after his return from the cruise to Madagascar, whither the
Salisbury had been ordered, to put an end to the piracy with
which those waters were infested. He says:
"At Guzarat I met with a Portuguese named Anthony de Sylvestre;
he came with two other Portuguese and two Dutchmen to take on in
the Moor's service, as many Europeans do. This Anthony told me
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