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cuando se internó en la selva junto con sus hombres,
fueron capturados por los indígenas Kuna. Esta tribu
de caníbales, mataron, destazaron y cocinaron al gru-
po de piratas, excepto a uno de sus hombres que con-
siguió escapar y contar lo sucedido.
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sumamente exitoso en sus correrías y, caso raro en la
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capturar más de 200 barcos (de los 456 que se dice ase-
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bien a los vencidos, a menos que fueran franceses, pues
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capturado por los ingleses, quienes encontraron más de
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Fame and fortune
One of the most vicious pirates was, certainly,
François l’Olonnais, a French who became an au-
thentic psychopath, who murdered for pleasure,
and raped and quartered his victims; it is even said
that, once, he ripped the heart off a man to eat it in
front of all of his crew. After several years of piracy,
his life ended up in a way very suitable with his
existence. His boat stranded at the coast of Darién,
and when he entered the jungle along with his
men, they were captured by the Kuna aborigines.
This tribe of cannibals killed, dismembered and
cooked the group of pirates but one, who managed
to escape, and told what had happened.
On the contrary, Bartholomew Roberts, better
known as Black Bart, was a chivalrous pirate, ex-
tremely successful in his incursions and, a rare case
in that era, entirely teetotal. In just a couple of years
he seized more than 200 boats (out of the 456 it is
said he besieged), including several battleships. He
used to treat the defeated very well but the French,
who he always irrationally loathed; he even hanged
the French governor of the Martinique Island, in his
own ship. He was the Scourge of the Caribbean Sea,
Brazil and the Coastal East Africa until his sailboat
was detained by the British who found more than
300 hundred tons of gold dust in the ship’s hold.
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