PoD Posted May 28, 2011 Posted May 28, 2011 Just found this excellent book on google books. Its full of really useful info: De jure maritimo et navali or a Treatise of Affaires Maritime and of commerce by Charles Molloy 1682 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4xCYDg6BjZMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false ...and then I discovered the wine...
Mission Posted May 28, 2011 Posted May 28, 2011 "I. Pirates What." I like that. This is actually quite readable; much more so than many of the medical books I've found from the same period. Mycroft: "My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What might we deduce about his heart?" John: "I don't know." Mycroft: "Neither do I. But initially he wanted to be a pirate."
Capt. Sterling Posted May 28, 2011 Posted May 28, 2011 THANK YE PoD!!!!!!!!!!!!! "I being shot through the left cheek, the bullet striking away great part of my upper jaw, and several teeth which dropt down the deck where I fell... I was forced to write what I would say to prevent the loss of blood, and because of the pain I suffered by speaking."~ Woodes Rogers Crewe of the Archangel http://jcsterlingcptarchang.wix.com/creweofthearchangel# http://creweofthearchangel.wordpress.com/
Elena Posted May 28, 2011 Posted May 28, 2011 Thank you too! -A swashbuckling adventures RPG, set in 1720 in West Indies; winner of Distant Fantasies& RPG-D Member's Choice Award; RPG Conference's Originality Award; 2011 & 2012 Simming Prizes-
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