Show L DT hy 11 ma amu WATSON 0 1926 western newspaper Naw unions union captain roberts Robert 3 the unique 0 OUT of the minister eln lster ranks of the bloody bret brethren brethren bren of the coast whose careers form the long history of piracy there emerges the unique personality sona lity at 0 capt bartholomew roberts thero there are ninny many factors which KO go to justify this characterization of unique here are but a few forced into piracy himself lie ho never forced a man to become a pirate himself upon tile hla election to leader leadership shIpp he spoke laconically anil and to the point albeit not very gracefully nor gratefully as follows since I 1 have dipped my hands in muddy water and roust must bo be a it la Is better to be a commander than a common mant man ile he was the only toltan to tal abstainer known to the history of piracy ile he drank only teal on board hla his ship all lights had find to be out by eight at night and oily any of the crew who wished to continue drinking after that hour had to do so on deck regardless of tile the weather lie ile would allow no women on ills his ship and the man who brought a woman aboard disguised as aa a man did to so under penalty of deth death always protected protect d women prisoners lie ila allowed no games of cards or dice to be played for money since ho he disapproved of gambling lie he was A strict observer of the and allowed ills his musicians lans to have a n rest on tile the seventh day tills this in face of pirate custom that every pirate brother brollier brot lier who felt tile tho irresistible urge to sing or danco dance had the right to demand a tune nt at any hour day or night ue had it a particular hatred for natives of barbados and because lie he had been roughly handled in encounters counters zi with ships from those places so when he designed tits hla flag be displayed upon it a huge figure of himself standing sword in hand upon two skulls under these were the letters A n B 11 and A it II 11 IA A bar ba ballana dlana bad tana head and a head ills motto wax was a short life and a merry one and he often said that lie he wished to tile die fighting ills his at A was granted and when lie was finally killed in battle in accordance with his oft repeated request tits ills b bady I 1 bay was thrown overboard fully dressed in all reg nIla lla ile he wao waa a man and lie wore a rich derrr k waistcoat end and breeches a red f in hla his cap a cold chain around teck ick with a big diamond cross it ing from it ila ho was vas invariably sett set with a sword in hand and two pairs of pistols hang ing nt at the end of a silk sash across ills hla chest not so BO eye filling a spectacle as a perhaps but picturesque enough these are the things which distinguished capt bartholomew roberts a Wel born in 1682 and killed in 1722 who dio made a name for himself as a pirate in ills his forty years of life morgans only rival tle A pirate Is to be reckoned by JL i tile the amount of damage lie he does and the number of ships he takes there can be no doubt that capt bartholo bertholo mew roberts roberta should be placed at the very head of his film profession so BO says one historian who continues ile he la IR said to have taken over vessels the only ninn man who cin can be said bald to rival him la Is sir henry morgan but morgan although in somo some ways an unmitigated blackguard was a man of much greater breadth of 0 outlook than roberts ever was and moreover ars acs a buccaneer rather than a pirate roberts roberta a welshman started out honestly enouf enough it even though the ship upon which lie he was barst employed was engaged la in a questionable occupation lie ile was wad master of the princess which sailed from london in november 1710 for the coast of guinea to get a cargo of black ivory slaves at malloe maboe the was captured CRp turca the me welsh pirate howel davis who forced roberts to join his crew six sir weeks afterwards davis died violently of course and the leaders among the crew who hoped to succeed him lords till nil they called themselves vea 1 finally elected lord roberts the new leader immediately sailed for brazil and there in the bay ol of found a fleet of at 42 portuguese ships loaded and ready to sail with unprecedented boldness the pirate sailed in among them to the heaviest laden which he att attacked acted boarded and sailed bulled out of the harbor ills booty was some in money much rich merchandise and a cross of diamonds for the lie king of portugal soon afterwards lin took a dutch ship then a britten british vessel and with supreme audacity sailed back to 13 urn ra zil to clean and rent refit his hig vessel after that he began preying upon the commerce in the west indies in april 1721 he was buck back on the guinea coast robbing and burning on one occasion lie he captured a minister whom lie he tried to pers persuade itale to become tits his choplan explaining that nil all he would have to do would bo be to say oily prayers anti and make punch but the minister begged oft off and roberts allowed him to go of Us his belongings longings s except three prayer books and it a corkscrew the pirate lender leader explained that those articles were sorely needed on the royal fortune his phlp roberts end came irly the next year in february 12 1 lie was wn nt at tacked incised by 11 II M S swallow and ahr pirate I 1 was struck in tb alln throat by a grapes grapeshot bot und and killed |