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work work is custom today. Thank

2:03

you for joining us now. We

2:05

want to extend our attention to the open- renting architects to the Welcome

2:31

to the Pirate History Podcast. My

2:33

name is Matt. Thank you for listening. So

2:38

today's episode is late,

2:40

and I'm not particularly happy with it.

2:44

Which is a shame because I've been

2:46

through three or four drafts of this

2:48

episode and one recorded version that I

2:50

scrapped. I'm really

2:52

beginning to see and internalize why

2:55

so many writers stay away from

2:57

this story. I feel

2:59

like I spend at least a couple of

3:01

minutes every episode we've talked about these characters

3:03

saying stuff like, we need

3:05

to remember that this story is

3:07

mostly unadulterated fiction, and

3:09

the fiction itself is internally inconsistent

3:12

and contradicts itself on a regular

3:14

basis. And I

3:16

know I don't necessarily need to do that. I mean, you

3:18

guys get it, but I have this

3:20

image of some kid coming along, picking up

3:23

an episode of the show, turning it on

3:25

and thinking, wow, these sound like amazing pirates.

3:28

And I want to be clear

3:30

to anybody who might not have

3:32

listened to past episodes that this

3:34

is mostly fiction and internally inconsistent.

3:37

With that in mind, the previous

3:40

versions of this episode were a

3:42

pretty in-depth play-by-play of what was

3:44

happening over the course of the

3:46

narrative. But I was never

3:48

happy with it. I had

3:50

to stop the flow of the story every

3:52

so often and mention that this is in

3:54

fact contradicted by something that was said in

3:57

a different part of the book. Or

3:59

that. was contradicted by reality. It's

4:03

a frustrating tale to try to tell. So

4:07

I've made something of an executive decision here. We're going

4:09

to finish talking about these pirates. I won't leave you

4:11

in the lurch, and there is some interesting stuff that's

4:13

going to happen. But we've got

4:15

so much bigger and better things to come

4:17

that I'm really looking forward to getting to,

4:19

so we're kind of going

4:22

to brush past this last couple of

4:24

years and these pirates of the round.

4:27

We've talked about most of the stuff that

4:29

I really wanted to talk about already anyway.

4:32

The really fascinating part of this

4:34

story is all of these pirate

4:36

utopias, these havens that they built

4:39

on Madagascar. And we're

4:41

going to kind of finish up with

4:43

that topic today. At

4:46

which point we're really just going to be a

4:48

hop, skip, and a jump to Benjamin Hornigold. When

4:51

we last caught up with John

4:54

Bowen, he had just been elected

4:56

captain of the Speaker. A

4:59

Mr. Pickering was elected the master,

5:02

Samuel Heralt, a Frenchman, was

5:04

made quartermaster, and

5:06

Thomas Howard was chosen

5:08

captain quartermaster. Now

5:11

I can't figure out what a captain

5:13

quartermaster is. It's

5:15

all in caps, so it's clearly

5:17

a title, Captain Quartermaster. I

5:20

guess it might be an officer who

5:22

was responsible for the captain's

5:25

quarters, sort of his personal lieutenant,

5:27

but maybe isn't in

5:30

the line of succession should the

5:32

captain die. Or maybe,

5:34

and this one seems a little bit more

5:36

likely, maybe it put the

5:39

captain quartermaster in the line of

5:41

succession, maybe right behind the captain,

5:43

but without the same duties of

5:46

the sailing master or quartermaster. What

5:49

I think is happening here is that Thomas

5:51

Howard had his own cadre of

5:53

loyal pirates, loyal to him. They

5:56

may have expected, maybe even demanded that

5:58

he be given a position of authority.

6:00

However, Howard's men would still have been

6:02

a minority among the crew of Speaker.

6:06

Since they didn't have the numbers to

6:08

get him elected quartermaster, they may have

6:11

insisted he was given this kind of

6:13

lieutenant captain ship under the main captain.

6:15

He had the experience, after all. We

6:19

should remember, though, that Thomas White

6:21

was also on board. However, his

6:23

rank, if he had one, isn't

6:25

mentioned. If the

6:27

election's out of the way and the ship ready

6:29

to sail, the pirates set a

6:31

heading for India. There

6:34

they ministered the Malabar coast for a few

6:36

months. The details

6:38

here are sketchy at best, but

6:40

the pirates captured quite a few

6:42

significant prizes while they were in

6:44

India. The most significant,

6:47

and the one about which we know

6:49

the most, was probably an

6:51

East Indianman under a Captain

6:53

Conway. I don't

6:55

have any details about the cargo that

6:58

the pirates plundered from this East India

7:00

Company ship, but we can guess. See,

7:03

she was captured just outside the port

7:05

city of Quilon. Quilon

7:07

was an old Portuguese trading

7:09

post that specialized in one

7:12

particular export. Cashews

7:16

Back in the 1500s, Portuguese

7:18

sailors transplanted cashew trees from

7:20

Brazil. Initially, they

7:22

were mostly there to shore up loose,

7:25

sandy soil along the coast, but in

7:28

and around Quilon, the trees really

7:30

took off. By

7:33

1700, Quilon was the largest exporter

7:35

of cashews in the world, and

7:38

that's a distinction that it still

7:40

holds to this day, and cashews

7:42

were crazy popular back then. The

7:46

Chinese had discovered a voracious

7:48

appetite for cashews, but back

7:51

in Europe, the upper and middle classes had

7:53

also discovered they were pretty good, and wanted

7:55

as many as possible. There

7:58

are actually some pretty fun stories.

8:00

from this period where Chinese spies

8:02

tried to infiltrate Quilong to steal

8:04

some of the saplings. Cashews,

8:08

though, were a closely guarded

8:10

agricultural secret. No, I

8:12

love cashews, but if I were to come

8:14

across a ship full of them, you know,

8:17

several hundred tons of cashews, that might

8:20

be a little bit too much even for me. However,

8:22

the pirates would have been exuberant with a

8:24

haul like that. They

8:27

would have been extremely easy to sell

8:29

for an extremely good price. See,

8:31

the pirates received a very warm welcome

8:33

from some of the other ports in

8:35

the region. The

8:38

merchants at some of the nearby port

8:40

cities were more than happy to buy

8:42

their plunder, no matter where

8:44

it may have come from. In fact,

8:46

in this case, the pirated source of

8:48

these goods may have been a big

8:50

selling point. Mostly here,

8:52

we're talking about Indians who would have,

8:54

I imagine, gotten a pretty big kick

8:56

out of making a profit off of

8:58

goods stolen from the English. According

9:01

to General History of the Pirates,

9:03

Volume 2, the

9:05

people in those nearby port cities were

9:07

happy to provide the pirates with food

9:10

and drink, any other amenities the pirates

9:12

were likely craving, and

9:14

even the most important commodity of

9:16

all, information. These

9:19

merchants had quite a bit of

9:21

inside knowledge about ships that were

9:23

preparing to depart from other

9:26

ports. They could tell

9:28

the pirates what those ships were carrying,

9:30

how much the merchants here in town

9:32

would be willing to pay for those

9:34

goods, and even in some cases, you

9:36

know, what kind of strength they had

9:38

on board. And in

9:40

a few cases, these merchants

9:42

probably knew all of these

9:44

in-depth details about ship movements

9:47

and cargo and strength on

9:49

board, because these merchants

9:51

themselves had sold them the cargo

9:53

in the first place. You

9:56

know, they Sell a few sacks of

9:58

pepper to a merchant ship, And

10:00

in tell the pirates about it, the

10:02

pirates go out and steal the sacks

10:05

of pepper, then bring it back to

10:07

the original merchant who would then sell

10:09

it a second time for even more

10:12

profit on the same sack of pepper.

10:15

So. These were easy in

10:17

profitable times for the pirates

10:19

of the speaker. But.

10:21

Eventually, the East India Company and some

10:24

less friendly locals began to catch on

10:26

to what was happening and the pirates

10:28

had to be to retreat. On

10:32

to return voyage to Madagascar,

10:34

the pirates quote meeting with

10:36

adverse wins and being negligent

10:38

in their steerage, they ran

10:40

upon St. Thomas' Wreath at

10:42

the Island of Mauritius. Where.

10:44

The ship. Was. Last. This

10:47

is Episode Three Thirty Two. Without.

10:50

Striking a stroke. Reckon.

10:53

On a reef and losing your ship was

10:55

never a good thing. But. It

10:57

could have been a lot worse for the men

11:00

of speaker. Murray. Says was

11:02

a Dutch colony and seventeen no one

11:04

was. It had been for just about

11:06

a century now. It. Was

11:08

named after Maurice Prince of

11:10

Orange that would be the

11:13

son of William the Silent

11:15

and the grand uncle of

11:17

William the Third. But.

11:19

In seventy no one the Governor of

11:22

Murray says was a man named Roelof

11:24

Deal donte. He was

11:26

the grandson of Italian immigrants to

11:29

the Netherlands. Do

11:31

you not? He began his career

11:33

as a Dutch East India Company

11:35

officials, but will he continue to

11:37

serve in his role in the

11:39

East India Company? He moved on

11:41

to a more overtly political career.

11:43

His first job there was the

11:45

Governor of Cape Town and after

11:47

distant here and Murray says he

11:49

would go on to command the

11:51

Dutch outpost in Japan. And.

11:53

sexually that job for which is most

11:55

well known you know the japanese only

11:57

had the one european outpost the one

12:00

European colonial holding in their territory

12:02

with which they would trade, and

12:04

that was this Dutch holding. Now

12:08

commanding a tiny little island in the

12:10

middle of the Indian Ocean might seem

12:12

like a demotion after a place like

12:14

Cape Town, but it really wasn't.

12:18

When Diodati took command of Mauritius, the

12:20

world was marching to war. It

12:22

was clear to everyone that England and

12:24

Holland would soon be fighting the French,

12:27

and Mauritius was an incredibly

12:30

important stop for Allied ships

12:33

that would, moreover, be under constant

12:35

threat from the nearby French island

12:37

of Réunion. It

12:39

was Diodati's job, and a big

12:41

job that was to protect Mauritius.

12:45

Now this is one of the first areas and

12:47

the scrapped versions of this

12:50

episode that I've cut a lot from.

12:53

There was a lot more analysis here about the

12:55

war and the role of a place like Mauritius,

12:57

but none of that was very interesting. Instead

13:00

of all of that, I'll just say that

13:03

it's a good idea to keep

13:06

a group of heavily armed English

13:08

and Dutch pirates in your good

13:10

graces when you're in

13:12

a precarious situation like Diodati's. So

13:16

when Speaker crashed on the St. Thomas

13:18

Reef, Diodati invited the pirates

13:21

in with open arms. They

13:24

had a hospital there that specialized

13:27

in treating tropical diseases and new

13:29

arrivals. They also kept

13:31

a large store of citrus fruit

13:33

around because they knew that was important

13:35

for curing scurvy. There

13:38

were a bunch of pirates who weren't

13:40

exactly well, some who were actually sick,

13:43

and they were all seen and treated

13:45

by the doctors at the hospital there.

13:48

Once that bit of business had been taken care

13:50

of, the crew of Speaker

13:52

were fated. They

13:55

were served fine wine, good food,

13:57

all of the pleasures of civilization that

13:59

precious had to offer were offered to

14:02

the pirates. Governor

14:04

Diodati, and I should

14:06

be clear here, his title wasn't actually

14:09

Governor. I can't pronounce

14:11

the title into Dutch, and it wasn't exactly

14:13

a Governor's ship. You know, there was no

14:15

king to appoint him, and really

14:17

he got his role from the East

14:20

India Company, which was more closely enmeshed

14:22

with the Dutch than it was in

14:24

England, but we're just going to

14:26

call him Governor, which is basically what he was doing.

14:29

Well, the Governor allocated men and

14:31

ships to transfer all of the

14:33

cargo from the beached speaker to

14:36

the shore, but the

14:38

pirates were still without a ship. So

14:41

the pirates decided to buy a local

14:43

salute and convert it into a brigantine,

14:46

a process which basically breaks down

14:49

to taking the latin rig of

14:51

the mainsail and replacing it with

14:53

a square rig. They also

14:55

transferred over some of their guns from the

14:57

speaker. Now, the brigantine

15:00

wasn't going to be able to

15:02

hold all of the guns that

15:04

had been aboard the speaker, so

15:06

Governor Diodati happily accepted a gift

15:08

of the excess guns to put

15:10

atop his fortress wall. He

15:13

also accepted a very gracious gift of

15:15

2,500 pieces of eight. Beyond all of

15:17

that, the

15:21

speaker was just sitting out there,

15:23

beached, unable to sail, but still,

15:25

you know, mostly intact. As

15:28

it turned out, there would be enough

15:30

wood and fittings in the wreck of

15:32

the speaker to make basically a whole

15:34

new sloop. So this

15:36

whole affair turned out pretty well for

15:39

Governor Diodati. That's

15:41

the other bit that I cut from this episode.

15:43

There was a lot more detail in the book,

15:45

and I shared a lot more of that previously,

15:48

which was kind of fun, but not

15:50

terribly relevant. But

15:52

at this point, though, that the

15:55

crew of speaker, formerly of speaker,

15:58

here they split up. Brigantine

16:00

just didn't have enough space to

16:02

carry everyone. At

16:05

this point the crew split up.

16:08

The sloop, the Brigantine just didn't have

16:10

enough space to carry everyone's so Thomas

16:12

Howard and his card re of loyal

16:15

pirates chose to stick around my recess

16:17

for a while. We're gonna catch up

16:19

with them here to a minute for

16:22

now. John Bowen steered his men to

16:24

Madagascar. The. Brigantine

16:26

put in at a place called

16:28

Mara Pam. Now.

16:31

I can't find anything on a

16:33

settlement named Mara Tan on Madagascar

16:35

outside of a general history of

16:38

the pirates. Volume Two: And

16:41

it only shows up right here. When.

16:43

John Bowen landed his brigantine. their

16:45

it looks kind of like the

16:48

pirates named it themselves. For.

16:50

The remainder of seventeen or

16:53

one the pirates said about

16:55

building a fortress. That.

16:57

I wouldn't they put guns on

16:59

top. They had houses inside. they

17:01

set up a farm and employed

17:04

some of the locals know that's

17:06

the word the book uses employ.

17:09

And. Weird is going to pretend that

17:11

that means they actually paid out fair

17:13

wages. which if so, I mean that

17:16

be wild. We've. Talked

17:18

about a number of other pirates

17:20

settlements that each in their own

17:22

specific way were pretty socio political

17:24

radical. Setting. Up. Courts.

17:27

Of Justice with Jerry's and stuff.

17:30

A. Place that actually paid black

17:32

people. Honest pay for honest work.

17:35

That might have been the most radical of

17:37

all. When.

17:39

We first started talking about the

17:41

Pirates of the Round something like

17:43

three years ago. Now we started

17:45

with Captain James Me. so. But.

17:48

It wasn't really captain Me saw

17:51

that took the forefront of those

17:53

first few episodes. Mostly we talked

17:55

about utopia. And. The pirate

17:57

haven of Libertarian. And

18:00

as we said, these are the really fascinating

18:02

elements of the Red Sea Men. To me,

18:05

St. Mary's the island where

18:08

Adam Baldwin our house real

18:10

the pirate settlement at St.

18:12

Augustine be was also real.

18:17

This for that and member Tan

18:19

and the settlement we talked about

18:21

last time built by Nathaniel North.

18:23

We don't have any archaeological evidence

18:26

that those places were real, Not.

18:28

There is a lot of Dna

18:30

evidence that suggests Europeans were in

18:32

the region long enough to spread

18:34

that Dna evidence around. And.

18:37

We can assume that they had

18:39

somewhere to make that happen. When.

18:43

I very much doubt though. Is

18:45

that they had the Advanced

18:47

Justice System. That. Nathaniel North's

18:50

settlement was reported to have

18:52

for the it's a Narco

18:54

christian socialist utopia of libertarian.

18:58

Remember. That was. partly. Established by

19:00

a radical revolutionary Catholic priest

19:03

who sailed with James Me

19:05

so my named Karachi Only

19:07

their slogan for God's Sake

19:09

was for God and Liberty.

19:13

As an aside, I do

19:15

wonder if putting such a

19:17

prominent Catholic character with a

19:19

slogan like that in your

19:21

story and wonder if that

19:23

suggests some pretty strong Jacobite

19:25

leanings in the author. Or

19:27

on that later. But.

19:30

Here at Merit Hand, there's less

19:32

of that utopianism. And

19:34

to me that makes me feel like

19:36

this is more real. Than.

19:39

North Settlement or Libertarian. you know

19:41

there's no god and liberty here.

19:43

They're not right in the constitution.

19:45

there is building a fort and

19:48

case some enemies arise. and that's

19:50

sensible. plus since john

19:52

bow and was real on like

19:54

maybe some of the other people

19:56

in this story the author may

19:59

have felt less com comfortable, inventing

20:01

quite as much. By

20:04

the beginning of 1702, the

20:07

pirates were living the easy

20:09

life there at Maritain, but

20:12

early in the year some of them

20:14

began to grow restless with their sedentary

20:17

lifestyle. There had been a

20:19

fortune after all. They needed

20:21

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21:03

Do you remember the Company of

21:06

Scotland, founded back in 1696? Officially

21:11

it was the Company of Scotland for

21:13

trading with Africa and the Indies. It

21:16

was their board of directors that

21:18

were behind the Darien Scheme, the

21:20

Scottish colony of New Caledonia in

21:22

Panama. By this point,

21:25

1702, there was no New Caledonia. The

21:29

Darien Scheme had failed, but the Company

21:31

of Scotland was still chugging along and

21:33

trading with Africa and the Indies. Indeed

21:36

because of the Darien Scheme's failure,

21:39

profitable trading voyages were more important

21:41

than ever. There

21:43

was a real danger that they might go bankrupt

21:46

here, and thanks to the high

21:48

rate of investment from powerful,

21:50

rich noblemen in Scotland, if

21:53

the Company went under, Scotland

21:55

was going under. The

21:58

Scottish Company's profitability. Was

22:00

the only thing keeping Scotland

22:02

independent from England. In

22:06

January seventeen o two two

22:08

ships belonging to the Scottish

22:11

company stopped at Merit Pay.

22:14

The. Smaller of the to was

22:16

the content. Sometimes you'll see it

22:19

called the Continent but I'm gonna

22:21

go with contempt. She was just

22:23

a brigantine carrying mostly guns and

22:25

supply is. The. Larger

22:28

of the to. Carried. Enslaved

22:30

men and women. Her.

22:33

Captain with a man named drama.

22:36

And he had rounded the Cape of Good

22:38

Hope just a few months earlier. He

22:41

sailed over to India where he

22:43

traded the englishman. there's some of

22:45

his English goods. Likely.

22:47

He bought some spices. they are,

22:49

but spices work. The purpose of

22:51

this voyage. He. Was

22:53

here to buy people. He

22:55

stopped at more recess after

22:57

India. And. I wonder if. While.

23:00

He was there Gov Dia.he recommended that

23:02

he stop at this place called Merit.

23:05

There. Were, after all some very nice

23:07

Englishman about. Before.

23:09

That drummond say old for St.

23:12

Mary's Island where he traded with

23:14

Edward Welsh. Then. He headed

23:17

south. First he stopped off at For.fair

23:19

where he met with Abraham Samuel and

23:21

then rounded the Cape heading for Merit

23:23

Pan. When. The ship

23:25

arrived. Captain Drummond lay anchor. Put.

23:28

A boat in the water and made

23:30

for sure with his surgeon, his purser

23:32

and a few men to haul chests

23:34

of cargo. Drummond

23:36

told the men they are that he

23:38

was here to trade and all manner

23:40

of European goods. Anything that gentlemen such

23:42

as yourselves might want could be found

23:44

a board his shit. A

23:47

ship called. The. Speedy. Retire.

23:51

I'm. Going to let Captain Charles Johnson

23:54

relate the next bit. According

23:56

to a general history of the Pirates,

23:59

Volume two, In

24:02

the meanwhile, John Bowen, with four

24:04

of his consorts, goes off in a

24:06

little boat on pretense of

24:08

buying some of their merchandise brought from

24:10

Europe. Finding

24:13

a fair opportunity, the

24:15

chief mate, Bosen, and a hand or

24:17

two more only upon the deck they

24:19

threw off their mask. Each

24:22

drew out a pistol and hanger, and told

24:24

them they were all dead men if they

24:26

did not retire that moment to the cabin.

24:29

The surprise was sudden, and they thought

24:31

it necessary to obey. The

24:34

pirates made a signal to their fellows on

24:36

shore, upon which about forty

24:38

or fifty came on board, and took

24:41

quiet possession of the ship without

24:43

bloodshed or striking a stroke.

24:49

When he says they pulled out their pistols and

24:51

hangers, a hanger is a

24:53

sword. It's a cutlass, really. They

24:56

call them hangers due to the

24:58

sling in which the pirates carried

25:00

their swords. Instead of

25:02

hanging at the hip like a longsword or

25:05

on their back, most pirates

25:07

carried their swords up

25:09

under their arms, slung over the

25:11

shoulder, or maybe up next

25:13

to their chest, places

25:15

where it's easy to get to and less

25:18

likely to get caught up in the rigging. So

25:22

four pirates pulled their pistols and their

25:24

swords, told the men on board to

25:26

surrender, called their friends over, and

25:28

took the ship. No one was

25:30

shot, no one was hurt, and they

25:33

had two new ships in their possession. John

25:36

Bowen and his pirates outfitted their

25:39

two new ships. They filled them

25:41

with guns and provisions, and then

25:43

they made an offer to the captured

25:45

crew, the men who had

25:47

formerly been aboard Speedy Return. Any

25:50

man who wished to join the pirates

25:53

could do so. Right now, today,

25:55

they'd get equal shares, the

25:58

vote, and all the freedom they had. could

26:00

shake a stick at, and some of

26:02

the Scots did take them up on the offer.

26:05

But it's not like this was a join

26:08

us or die moment. The

26:10

pirates left Fort Meritan

26:12

in the hands of the

26:14

Scottish. They didn't

26:16

leave them any guns, of course, but

26:18

they had food and shelter, fresh water,

26:21

stout walls, and they even

26:23

had a ship. That

26:25

Rigantine that the pirates got from Mauritius

26:27

several months ago, that was still there.

26:30

John Bowen ordered her to be disabled,

26:33

of course. The Scottish would have

26:35

to repair the ship, but if they wanted

26:37

to, they could get her up and running

26:40

and sail back home to Scotland. And

26:42

it looks like they even left the

26:44

men with their cargo, you know, the

26:46

human beings that they were intending to

26:49

sell into slavery. That

26:51

wouldn't work out for Captain Drummond

26:53

or the Scottish Company or Scotland,

26:56

as we will eventually see. But

27:00

the pirates didn't want to ruin them, they just

27:02

wanted their ships, which were better than what they

27:04

had. Almost

27:06

immediately after setting out, Captain

27:09

Bowen spotted sails on the

27:11

horizon. The speedy

27:13

return set out to pursue, but it

27:15

was already dusk when they spotted her.

27:18

They lost sight of her during the night,

27:20

and when the sun rose, the ship was

27:22

gone. Bowen

27:24

decided to return to Madagascar, not

27:26

Maritain, but to, in this case,

27:29

Port Dauphin. Along

27:32

the way, the speedy return lost

27:34

her escort, the content. She'd

27:37

been lagging behind the whole time, and

27:40

thanks to the wind, speedy return didn't have

27:42

time to turn around and look for her.

27:45

A few days after speedy return

27:47

arrived at Port Dauphin, the

27:49

content limped into harbor. Apparently,

27:52

she was a leaky tub that could

27:54

barely stay afloat, so the

27:57

pirates burned the content and everyone

27:59

on board went to the speedy return.

28:02

While they visited Abraham Samuel,

28:04

he had some interesting tales

28:06

to tell. The

28:08

whole country, apparently, was currently at

28:11

war. Some of this has

28:13

to do with what was happening with

28:15

Nathaniel North, who was on the march

28:17

with his Malagasy allies, but

28:19

there was other stuff going on as well. To

28:23

the southwest, Ratsemi Hollow,

28:26

that son of the pirate, Tom

28:28

Collins, had left Madagascar.

28:31

He was in England right

28:33

now attending school, but that

28:35

had left a vacancy on

28:38

his throne, and warfare had broken out

28:40

in his kingdom, and it was a

28:42

war that would span the next decade.

28:46

It would eventually drag Ratsemi Hollow

28:48

back to Madagascar, drag in Abraham

28:50

Samuel, drag in the French, and

28:52

even, at the end of it,

28:54

Woods Rogers. We'll

28:56

get to all that later, though. For

28:58

now, the pirates headed west for St.

29:01

Augustine Bay. When

29:03

the pirates arrived, they spotted an unwelcome

29:06

sight. There was

29:08

an English East India Company ship

29:11

in the harbor there, and Company

29:13

ships were not welcome at

29:15

St. Augustine Bay. Many

29:18

of the pirates feared this was an attack, or

29:20

maybe the attack had already happened, but piracy was

29:22

over in the Red Sea. Captain

29:25

Bowen, though, decided to take his courage

29:27

in his hands and hail

29:30

the East Indianmen. When

29:32

the reply came back, it wasn't

29:34

an East India Company official. It

29:38

was their old friend and crewmate, Thomas

29:41

Howard. And

29:44

that's where we're going to leave it today. Thomas

29:46

Howard has had quite the Odyssey

29:49

getting this powerful East Indianmen to

29:51

St. Augustine Bay. We're going

29:53

to talk about that next time. And

29:56

then we're Going to set up what's

29:58

really the last. Great ride. The Pirates

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