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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Not having much else to do during the Charleston, SC blockade, the pirates of Blackbeard's flotilla spent their time hunting, sleeping, cooking, drinking, and fornicating. (Many pirates were gay and Blackbeard did have some female pirates in his flotilla). One favorite staple of their diet were sea turtles found in abundance in SC at that time. They would get a large number of sea turtles for turtle soup. A number of cauldrons were placed by many fires with at least a bushel of auburn and other colored vegtables collected locally to add to the soup. One pirate would serve as a wiper of the vegetables as they were added to the pots. They could not have any dirt or other contaminants in their soup. Many did lament that they did not have any of the onions made perfect in Bermuda to put into the turtle soup. The onions of Bermuda were too far away for the pirates to take the trip. What Bermuda onions they might find off of a travelling ship from Bermuda were soon eaten. Rise And Fall Of The Bermuda Onion | Bernews.com |
Blackbeard had to
think of a
locale for a
bunker to hold the riches stolen from the hostages he had taken from the ships exiting and trying to enter Charleston harbor. From his kidnapping victims he took every coin he could find even the dump ha'
penny from 4 year old William Wragg and then stuck every innocent into the hold of the captured ship
the Crowley. This was not enough treasure though and he demanded that the citizens of Charleston provide him and his pirate force with a treasure chest of medicine as the pirates' very heavy partying had spread various diseases within their ranks.
(William Wragg would become a staunch loyalist during the Revolutionary War, give up his SC estates and drown while trying to resettle in England in 1777
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our.../william-wragg).