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Old 29th March 2008, 07:01 AM   #37
M ELEY
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001- Finally, a little ethnographic items thrown in to give a nod to other pirate brethren!
I included the Malaitan club as an occupational hazard to mariners and privateers alike! It is an odd fact that with so many sailors raoming around the ocean, many of them couldn't swim! Most who fell overboard went to the bottom like a stone. The reason that the great explorer Captain Cooke really died on that beach in Hawaii was because he couldn't swim out to the waiting rowboat just alittle ways off-shore. He met an end from a club probably similar to this one...
Well, that ends my pics. Hope some of you enjoyed them!
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