Jon Hagadorn

And then, just this month in January, researchers confirmed the discovery of the Nossa Senhora de Cabo, a Portuguese ship captured by the pirate Olivier Lavasseur in 1721.

That's a shipwreck, a shipwreck just discovered a few days ago.

Over 3,300 artifacts have been recovered from this and other wrecks near Ile Sainte-Marie, including gold coins and Chinese porcelain.

also discovered archaeological sites.

Recent excavations have uncovered foundations of buildings and smuggling outposts on land, providing tangible evidence of these 18th century pirate communities.

So in short, although Libertalia is just a legend, the fact that there were pirates on Madagascar was very, very real.

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A General History of Pirates, of which there were many editions.

The one at Gutenberg, which I'm referencing, is called A General History of the Robberies and Murders of Pirates.

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Today, the final chapter from The Count of Monte Cristo.

Chapter 117 The Fifth of October It was about six o'clock in the evening, an opal-colored light, through which an autumnal sun shed its golden rays, descended on the blue ocean.

the heat of the day had gradually decreased and a light breeze arose, seeming like the respiration of nature on awakening from the burning siesta of the south.

A delicious zephyr played along the coasts of the Mediterranean and wafted from shore to shore the sweet perfume of plants mingled with the fresh smell of the sea.