Show L DT ELMO SCOTT WATSON ha western union captain roberts the unique OUT 0 UT of 0 the sinister ranks of the bloody brethren of the coast eliose careers form the long history lil story of piracy there emerges the unique per son sodality sona lity allty ot of capt bartholomew roberts there are ninny many factors which go to justify tills characterization of unique here are but a few forced into piracy himself be never forced a man to become a pirate himself upon hla his election to leadership he be spoke laconically and to the point albeit not very gracefully nor gratefully as fol follows lovis since L I 1 have dipped my hands bonds in muddy water and must be a gyrate it Is better to his be a commander colum linler than a common man ile iio was the only total abstainer abB talner known to the history of piracy lie he drank only tea on board his big ship all lights had to be out by eight at night and any of the crew who w wished to continue drinking after that hour had to do so on deck regardless of the neather ue ile would allow no women on his ship find and tile the man who brought a woman aboard disguised as a man did so under penalty of death ue he always protected women prisoners he allowed no games of cards or dice to be played for money since he be disapproved of gambling ue ile was a strict observer of the sabbath and allowed his musicians to have a rest on the seventh day this in face of pirate custom that every pirate brother who felt the irresistible urge to sing or dance had the right to demand a tune at any hour day or night lie ile had a particular hatred tor for natives tives of barbados and Marti martinice martinica nica because he had been roughly handled in encounters with ships from those places so when he designed his ling flog he be displayed upon it a huge figure of himself standing sword in hand upon two skulls under these were the letters A B H and A 11 IT ft A bar bacians bad ians nead head and a head his motto was a short life and a merry one and he often sold said that he wished to die fighting nis ills wish was granted and when he be was finally killed hilled la in battle in accordance with hla his oft repeated request his body will was thrown overboard fully dressed in all his regalia reg filla ile he was a tall dark man and he wore a rich damask waistcoat and breeches a red feather in his cap agold a gold chain around his neck with a big diamond cross hanging from it he was invariably seen with a sword in hand band and two pairs of pistols hanging banging at the end of a silk sash across his chest not so eye filling a spectacle as a blackboard blackbeard perhaps but picturesque enough these ore are the things which distinguished capt bartholomew roberts a welshman bivel hman born in 1682 and killed in 1722 10 1 0 who nho made a name for himself as a pirate in ills his forty years of life |