Swashbuckler 1700

Yes we can indeed say that gaop ended in 1725 but there is interesting later pirates like Henry Johnson who operated in 1730.

If you mean the buccaneer no I am pretty sure that is ptg there is even thread loop on the top. Some PTGs had quite stiff brim like that that Peter the Great had. What are others beliefs?

I don't think it's at all different. In either case we ask three questions: 1. Is it possible they did it? 2. Is there any evidence they did it? 3. Is there any logical reason that they might or might not do it? Whether earrings, tattoos, bucket boots, or daggers in the teeth, the answer to all three questions is the same: 1. Yes. 2. No.( well in most cases no or only not 100% valid evidence (like Dutch sailors' earrings but they were not pirates so not clear evidence of pirate earrings. Pirate owning riding boots was a solitary happening and so was L. Wafer having tribal paintings/ tattoos of indians) 3. Logic suggests not. With my logic I would say that daggers in teeth would be logical but some may disagree Nose-picking is different of course: 1. Yes 2. No 3. Logic suggests probably.

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This is not an insult of any kind I think those are myth too but I don't count this dagger thing as one. It is just so different. We can debate stuff like "did pirates do nose picking" and then say it as a myth since it was not " common pirate behaviour". Did pirates had daggers. they had. did they had teeth. eyes they had. What is the deal! It is a quite different to do something as simple as what we are talking about than take ear piercings that needed lots of work, or get tattoos that were unknown in western culture.

I wil never think this kind of stuff (keepind blades in your mouth) as myths Still we can wonder were pirates literally armed to the teeth. And we must remenber that while someting is stupid it does not mean that people would not do it or has not done it....

http://jcb.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/detail/JCB~1~1~3744~5860004:-Title-page-?sort=Normalized_date%2CCreators%2CPublisher%2CTitle&qvq=q:pirates;sort:Normalized_date%2CCreators%2CPublisher%2CTitle;lc:JCB~1~1,JCBBOOKS~1~1,JCBMAPS~1~1,JCBMAPS~2~2&mi=26&trs=78 Here artist in 1700 has put a buccaneer in clear PTG

Sorry for multiple posting Here is Dutch picture (frontpiece of BoA from 1700) there is a slave with an earring (he seems to be African rather that indian) I believe that dutch were the biggets earring users since many pictures of Dutch and Dutch sailors show them. So small pearl earrings in Ducth use are not an errors but looking pirates there was a few Dutch pirates but no really many. http://jcb.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/detail/JCB~1~1~3744~5860004:-Title-page-?sort=Normalized_date%2CCreators%2CPublisher%2CTitle&qvq=q:pirates;sort:Normalized_date%2CCreators%2CPublisher%2CTitle;lc:JCB~1~1,JCBBOOKS~1~1,JCBMAPS~1~1,JCBMAPS~2~2&mi=26&trs=78

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I think Mission exaggerate the the risks of holding the blade in the mouth. But indeed it is a bit risky indeed skeleton pirates at least don't have any problem with that. cursed pirate don't feel .. Not the wind on face, nor the spray of the sea...nor the warmth of a woman's flesh.

I wonder is that hat in right a ptg (I also wonder what is the green hat on the left)

In Port Royal inventories of stores slaves are there like any other stuff http://nautarch.tamu.edu/portroyal/archives/invent.htm here is one list from it 4 Stone Juggs 1 Swinging Glass Crackt 2 Silver Tankards 2 Muggs 3 Silver Spoons 1 Silver Peper Box a Snuff Box one Medall a little of Silver Chain at 79 Ounces at 5/qt Ounce amounting to A Negro Boy A pair of Seales with 2 Weights A Pocket Book with a Silver Pen A Bedstead A Silver Watch

Oh I know that man but with other writing style (I have read Mansvelt) then I know that man.

well to me it is the same what tread it is fuse or what ever Well not too often but just for that I could be annoying I did it with a quite big knife and climbed around and run and if there is only one sharp edge it does not hurt your mouth nor cause any risks. Many gaop blades as far as I know had only one really sharp edge (swords at least).

In what time that happened? In gaop?

Bart is keeping those fuses for the grenades that the sailor is holding. Interesting I see some sence in it. I carry many thing in my mouth (rather stupid habit) when walking in stairs and carryign lots of stuff. But belt or sash would be better.

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Jean Bart in circa 1700 is having crenade fuses in his mouth

Call me anything you like but I think that as basic things like that don’t need “evidence” people have probably done it in Stone Age and I see it being doing nowdays as well. I am a person who likes using teeth when I can so I would have done it. Still let us look to history. But if you want to carry daggers etc. in your mouth you need to be sure that your teeth is up to the task. Daggers etc. are quite heavy and I think that many sailors would not even have good teeth enough to carry something such heavy. Writing in the mid-1720s the Swiss Cesar de Saussure described RN issue biscuits, "as large as a plate, white, and so hard that those sailors who have no teeth, or bad ones, must crush them or soften them with water. I found them, however, very much to my taste, and they reminded me of nuts."

Too bad that I don't have many of the books that I used in my school work (for slave trade) I would have nice stuff there...

I wonder how many captains were actually jacobites since it was perhaps the crews that were more jacobitical. Why would Royal Fortune be jacobite name?

I am not a racist. This is just historican thinking Hogarth again shows us what was the usual status of African aboard ships. He is certainly a slave while he is dressed well (He looks like sailor and he has nice red tie.... wondering still tie colors) and he has also a turban thing... no wait that is a wig. He is captains personal servant. Avery in period art is having a slave too and this from buccaneer articles and it tells something about how slaves were treated "Thus they order for the loss of a right arm six hundred pieces of eight, or six slaves ; for the loss of a left arm five hundred pieces of eight, or five slaves ; for a right leg five hundred pieces of eight, or five slaves ; for the left leg four hundred pieces of eight, or four slaves ; for an eye one hundred pieces of eight, or one slave ; for a finger of the hand the same reward as for the eye." We can also count from that that a slave in late 1600s cost 100 Pesos.

The thing about black pirates is a two edged sword often there were slaves of the pirates but there were also some of those Africans who were consired as crewmen with the others. But it seems that really often clack men were slaves or they were considered as lower people. like Foxe said before "Undoubtedly there were some free black pirates who were valued members of the company, bore arms, and shared in the plunder" but like he said often pirates sold Africans as slaves and so on.

But earlier nets seems to be more like roofs over the middle ship section Later (late 18th C and early 19th C) nets were at ship's sides