BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Memoirs of a Pyrate Captain
by Captain Bartholomew Roberts

Unvarnished historical account of the life of the famous Pirate Captain. Told in Diary form.

FORWARD The preface and prologue that follows hath inspired me to tell ye here, a summation of why I became a pyrate.

My life and them reasons for becoming a pyrate hath bin a subject of much controversy, tho’ one in particular, who after examining the events logically, concludes, considering the moral feelings I possessed when taken by Hywel Davis, is that I, after much contemplation, belieeved wholeheartedly that a life as a pyrate was preordained, though having no idea untill later, just what was to be the true nature of that what I held to be my inescapable future, beyond the joining of their ranks, but ‘tis belieeved, indubitably, by this woman who I have chosen to relate my story, as it was to meselfe, to be my Destiny.

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