• If any man shall offer to run away, or keep any Secret from the Company, he shall be marroon’d with one Bottle of Powder, one Bottle of Water, one small Arm and shot.
    • If any Many shall steel any Thing in the Company, or game, to the Value of a Piece of Eight, he shall be marroon’d or shot.


 Caribbean Pirates, at their peak in 1716, had a life of drinking and debauchery. They lived hard and died young. And they did NOT hide their treasure with maps marked with an X. Author Robert Louis Stevenson made that up in “Treasure Island” (1883)

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