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Speaker 1: Cutthroat. According to Dictionary entries, it's someone so ruthless they

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Speaker 1: would cut the throat of another, a murderer, a person

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Speaker 1: of a vicious nature. And believe me, in the world

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Speaker 1: of piracy, there were plenty of cutthroats. Sure, pirates lived

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Speaker 1: on the fringes of the societal boundaries. Many stole without conscience,

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Speaker 1: But to most of them, there were rules and behavioral expectations,

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Speaker 1: even among pirates. Edward Lowe, however, didn't subscribe to any

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Speaker 1: of that. If a fraction of the stories about his

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Speaker 1: cruelty are true, then it's a small wonder his crew

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Speaker 1: didn't hang him. His meanness and depravity, according to the tales,

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Speaker 1: at least could shame the devil. Low was born sometime

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Speaker 1: in the sixteen nineties in Westminster, London. As a teen,

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Speaker 1: he found work as a sailor on a ship heading

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Speaker 1: at a rigging house. Accounts say that low married in

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Speaker 1: seventeen fourteen. Tragedy struck when his son died in infancy

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Speaker 1: their second child, a daughter. Low then lost his job

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Speaker 1: and spiraled into a manic a bout of depression, he

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Speaker 1: along with his baby daughter. During the ship's voyage, Low

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Speaker 1: ended up in a brawl with a captain. Some of

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Speaker 1: the crew said Low insisted on more breaks, while others

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Speaker 1: claimed that he had grown tired of manual labor altogether.

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Speaker 1: When life aboard the ship did not improve to his liking,

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Speaker 1: Low convinced a handful of the crew to attempt a mutiny.

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Speaker 1: He killed a crewman while trying to shoot the captain.

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Speaker 1: The coup failed, and Low and his collaborators fled in

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Speaker 1: a rowboat. The group joined forces with another pirate, George Lowther.

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Speaker 1: While in Honduras, the crew attacked the Greyhound. Lowther and

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Speaker 1: Low ordered their crew to beat the men aboard the

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Speaker 1: merchant ship violently. Afterward, they joyfully set the Greyhound on fire.

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Speaker 1: With additional raids came upgrades to their ships. Lowther took

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Speaker 1: a vessel of his own, christening it the Ranger. Any

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Speaker 1: ablaze simply for having new Englanders on board, but things

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Speaker 1: weren't perfect in Paradise. Lowther and Low fought constantly and

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Speaker 1: finally parted ways. In seventeen twenty two, Low sailed for

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Speaker 1: Block Island. He flew various flags designed to instill a

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Speaker 1: sense of false security in his victims. His other ships

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Speaker 1: helped corral the unsuspecting vessel. If the captain refused to surrender,

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Speaker 1: Low open fire on the ship. Not that there was

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Speaker 1: anything out of the ordinary about that. No, it was

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Speaker 1: Lowe's cruelty that made him stand out. This was a

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Speaker 1: being sizzling in flames, and so one time he ordered

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Speaker 1: and then set the whole vessel ablaze. He strung up friars,

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Speaker 1: jerking them from their feet, and how they died. He

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Speaker 1: of Low's rampages, murder and the removal and roasting of

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Speaker 1: body parts reached the Boston papers. He had earned a

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Speaker 1: reputation as the most barbaric pirate to sail the Caribbean.

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Speaker 1: He was a cutthroat in the end, though his deeds

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Speaker 1: proved too much even for his own crew. After Low

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Speaker 1: ever saw him again. I'm Aaron Manky and welcome two pirates. Pirates,

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Speaker 1: the rogues of the sea, with reputations for giving no quarter,

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Speaker 1: meaning to grant to no mercy. The sight of a

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Speaker 1: pirate ship instilled fear in many sailors, and for good reason.

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Speaker 1: Codes and rules regarding the pirates crews treatment did not

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Speaker 1: extend to those aboard targeted ships. A rare few, like

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Speaker 1: Steve Bonnet, had the reputation of being kinder than most.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't known as the gentleman pirate for nothing. Others, though,

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Speaker 1: like Blackbeard, struck fear in all who crossed their paths,

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Speaker 1: yet treated their crewman well. But some pirate captains treated

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Speaker 1: Phillips had taken to pirate life aboard the Good Fortune

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Speaker 1: the other crewmates were busily working on a frigate to

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Speaker 1: captained by Sir John Flowers approached Phillips and the others

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Speaker 1: With most of the crew gone, they returned to England

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Speaker 1: to take the King's pardon while visiting family, though Phillips

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Speaker 1: the group stole a schooner from Austin Harbor and named

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Speaker 1: it the Revenge. With Phillips as captain, the pirates raided

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Speaker 1: While some went willingly, others, like John Fillmore, great grandfather

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Speaker 1: leaving was not an option. While some captains had would

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Speaker 1: He killed two men who tried to escape, violating the

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Speaker 1: and by April eighteenth of seventeen twenty four, they'd had enough.

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Speaker 1: Fillmore and three more took action. While repairing the ship,

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Speaker 1: expect for their story. While most captains treated their crew fairly,

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Speaker 1: others went too far, even for the most ruthless legends

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Speaker 1: of pirate lore. Like many pirates, there's not a lot

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Speaker 1: of information about Charles Vane's early life, although there are

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Speaker 1: some assertions. Notably, he was likely born in London around

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Speaker 1: sixteen eighty, and his surname suggests French ancestry. As a

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Speaker 1: child and teen Vain most likely witnessed a pirate hanging

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Speaker 1: in public. Public hangings gathered quite a crowd back then,

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Speaker 1: and entire families would make their way to the gallows

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Speaker 1: found his way to Port Royal. There he met privateer

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Speaker 1: Henry Jennings and joined his crew. Vain discovered that they

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Speaker 1: the norm among sailors. Vain looked up to his mentor.

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Speaker 1: Jennings was a devout patriot and wealthy landowner with a

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Speaker 1: who was sent by Jamaica's governor, Lord Archibald Hamilton's to

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Speaker 1: they also attacked the Spanish camps and made off with

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Speaker 1: jennings unwillingness to give up raids made him a pirate,

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Speaker 1: and to complicate matters further, the authorities in England had

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Speaker 1: But Jennings hadn't started out intending to become a pirate.

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Speaker 1: The king would soon offer him and others away out

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Speaker 1: much to their relief. Pirates in the Caribbean cross paths regularly,

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Speaker 1: took note of Jenning's dislike of Benjamin Hornegald, and following

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Speaker 1: his origins in a much lower class. Vain despise as

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Speaker 1: he clashed with pirates and privateers a lake. In fact,

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Speaker 1: Vain spent much of his time in Nassau drinking, fighting

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Speaker 1: as an act of war on the pirate republic, and

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Speaker 1: Charles Vane was ready for a fight. Unlike Jennings, Vain

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Speaker 1: heirs or King George the First. His loyalties were to

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Speaker 1: who refused to sign the pardon. He continued to cause

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Speaker 1: trouble in Nassau, putting himself in Britain's crosshairs. While making

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Speaker 1: his displeasure well heard, Vain also knew that it was

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Speaker 1: just a matter of time before someone came looking for him.

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Speaker 1: Ambitious and young British captain Vincent Pierce set out to

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Speaker 1: found the rebel pirate aboard the sloop called the Lark.

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Speaker 1: Pierce's own ship, the Phoenix, greatly outmatched the Lark, leaving

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Speaker 1: Vain no choice but to surrender. Pierce returned to Nassa

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Speaker 1: with the pirates instead of jailing them. Though authorities thought

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Speaker 1: considering a pardon, Vain and his crew immediately returned to piracy,

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Speaker 1: though collecting forty of the most cutthroat pirates on the island,

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Speaker 1: as they ventured back out to see By spring, Vain

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Speaker 1: and his men had attacked twelve ships. Some of their

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Speaker 1: treated with absolute cruelty. Vain and his men bound one

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Speaker 1: word of Vein's brutality and acts of violence spread far

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Speaker 1: his ego. In mid April of seventeen eighteen, Vein spotted

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Speaker 1: the sloop William and Mary near rum K and gave chase.

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Speaker 1: Captain Edward North surrendered without a fight. Despite this, Vein's

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Speaker 1: men savagely beat North's crew. After that, Vain randomly selected

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Speaker 1: one of North's men's and had his hands and feet

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Speaker 1: pirate rammed the end of a loaded musket into his mouth.

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Speaker 1: Vain threatened to like them if the sailor did not

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Speaker 1: William and Mary had nothing of real value on board,

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Speaker 1: so Vein took what cargo they had anyway, and then

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Speaker 1: also took the black sailors on board for enslavement. Aboard

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Speaker 1: the Lark, Vein captured another ship, the Diamond, and viciously

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Speaker 1: beat their crew as well. After taking whatever valuables they found,

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Speaker 1: The pirates put a noose around a sail ER's neck

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Speaker 1: Then they set the diamond ablaze. Later, they celebrated into

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Speaker 1: the night, drinking and cursing King George the first. The

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Speaker 1: raids continued in the same manner. Vain promised their victims quarter,

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Speaker 1: then unleashed his men to beat and torture anyone on board.

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Speaker 1: The violence caused tensions among other pirates, who relied on

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Speaker 1: give them quarter. Vain, however, genuinely seemed to delight in

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Speaker 1: each torture and saved his most violent acts of terror

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Speaker 1: for ships originating from Bermuda. For Vain, these acts were

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Speaker 1: in retaliation for the governor arresting a pirate. There was

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Speaker 1: one calendar month where Vain and his pirates raided a

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Speaker 1: dozen ships, terrorizing the crew each time. Survivors gave accounts

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Speaker 1: of Vein's cruelty and delight in delivering the most brutal assaults.

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Speaker 1: A few pirates in Nassau admitted that the atrocities the

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Speaker 1: Vein and his crew committed were dark even by their

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Speaker 1: own standards. In Bermuda, mariner Nathaniel Katling, a survivor of

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Speaker 1: the ill fated Diamond, testified before Governor Bennett. He'd been

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Speaker 1: but miraculously he had somehow survived. The sights of Vein's

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Speaker 1: the Caribbean suffered, nearly coming to a halt. By now,

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Speaker 1: Pierce had left Nassa, but Vain had another problem. Woods Rogers,

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Speaker 1: when Vain returned in April, he doubled down on his efforts,

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Speaker 1: recruiting even more men, and then their spree of violence continued.

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Speaker 1: When the lane stormed the town, he found it empty

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Speaker 1: thousand pieces of eight and heading towards their next port.

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Speaker 1: Gibraltar put up a fight, managing to kill seventy Buccaneers,

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Speaker 1: but it wouldn't be enough, and the Lenaie his men

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Speaker 1: spent four weeks, raiding and brutalizing the town. In the end,

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Speaker 1: they killed two hundred people and took another hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty hostage for a hefty ransom. Then they returned to Maricaibo,

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Speaker 1: whose residence had just begun, to creep out of the woods,

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Speaker 1: only to find the buccaneers had returned. They looted and

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Speaker 1: pillaged them before returning to Tortuga with another thirty thousand

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Speaker 1: pieces of eight. Lolani and the crew met disaster once

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Speaker 1: more on the Mosquito coast of Nicaragua. During a losing

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Speaker 1: battle with the Spanish, Lolani and a few of his

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Speaker 1: men fled on a makeshift raft. The indigenous tribe they

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Speaker 1: met this time was not as friendly and captured the buccaneers.

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Speaker 1: One of Loloni's men managed to escape and eventually returned

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Speaker 1: to safety. He reported that the tribe had been cannibals,

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Speaker 1: that they cut Lolany to bits and ate him. Pirates

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Speaker 1: was executive produced by Aaron Manky and narrated by Aaron

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Speaker 1: Manky and Alexander Steid. Writing for this season was provid

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Speaker 1: fended by Michelle Muto, with research by Alexander Steide and

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Speaker 1: Sam Alberty. Production assistance was provided by Josh Thain, Jesse Funk,

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Speaker 1: Alex Williams, and Matt Frederick. To learn more about this

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