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Life Aboard a Pirate Ship

Captain:

A pirate became captain of a ship if he was elected by the crew. The captain was only in command of the ship either when attacking another ship or when another ship attacked them. He worked as a regular crew member when the ship was not in battle. If the captain would not attack other ships and take booty, then he was removed as captain.

Quartermaster:

The quartermaster actually had more power than the captain of the ship. He was also elected by the crew. The quartermaster was responsible for dividing the loot evenly between crewmembers, watching over prisoners until the crew could decide what to do with them, and to punish pirates who broke rules.

Pirate Crew:

All pirates sailed with the understanding that if they didn't help attack ships and colonies, then they would receive no pay. If they continued to refuse to attack they would be put off of the ship in a foreign land. Most pirates did not kill people because they were only interested in the loot. Pirate crews followed a set of rules called the Code of Conduct.

Code of Conduct

1. No women were allowed on board.

2. Captured women were not to be molested.

3. The share of each pirates booty was agreed on.

4. Death was the penalty for killing or stealing from another pirate.

5. A trial was given before punishment was given. The pirate crew was the jury.

6. A pirate could be marooned on a deserted island if he broke too many rules.

7. No lighted lamps or cigarettes were allowed below decks.

Pirate Punishment

Pirates were punished in different ways depending on which rule was broken. Sometimes they were tied to the mast of a ship and whipped. Other times they were hung by either the quartermaster or when they were captured by the Spanish or other enemy. One really gruesome way of punishing a pirate was to maroon them on a deserted island without food or water and be left to die a slow death.

Marooned

Pirate Whipped

Pirate Hung

Jolly Roger

Blackbeard was the first pirate to call his flag the Jolly Roger. One of his ships was called the Jolly Roger and he named his flag after it. All other pirates began to call their ship's flag the Jolly Roger. The Jolly Roger was usually a scary sight. It was designed to scare any ship that it was attacking into surrendering without a battle.

Divides from the time, we regard as the humanity generally, the theory of evolution cultural perspective which American Morgan proposed, the humanity must pass through three stages: One is ignorant, second is barbaric, third is a civilization. I arrive at Northern Europe, they have had a pirate time, the pirate beforehand time are ignorant, will not do the pirate. Then the big ship, I may snatch the thing, little darling arrange the fish to eat. But turns the barbarism, I in Northern Europe felt that their training section entertainers' guild record, the earliest ancestors are a pirate, each country does not avoid this point, they thought that this very loses face. Afterward entered the civilization slowly, entered the civilized a little difficulty, why had the difficulty? Because the cultural idea is completely dissimilar, the pirate highest idea is the revenge. But enters the civilized time, the revenge is definitely not the highest idea. Has a law in Iceland to be very long, they reform the process and our water anchor Liangshan's real man to be similar, the basic idea is takes revenge. But according to the modern idea was mistakenly, you to take revenge one have killed, has also killed the maidservant, this was not right. They have snatched many civilized places, but after having snatched, seizes this place, they are the pirate, their child must remain down studies, therefore their descendant returned to these place complete existing writing sighted person slowly. These three stages enhance one another's beauty, simultaneously exists. For instance our present's civilization, it takes certainly two enemies, one is ignorant, one is barbaric. Why did the civilized person think that is lonely and is worried, two matches pester you, one is ignorant, old also does not explain, one is barbaric, it does not reason with completely, is scholar runs into the soldier, what meets is barbaric. Some look like the stubborn to resemble, that is ignorant, these two become our civilization enemy. Was very sometimes difficult saying that on a person body, including my body on, except had the civilized ingredient, also had the ignorant ingredient, also had the barbaric ingredient. We did not know now that possibly later has known, possibly is this. Therefore, in this case, Morgan's division, he has the value.

从时间上划分的，我们一般看成人类，美国摩根提出的进化论的文化观，人类总要经过三个阶段：一个是蒙昧，第二是野蛮，第三是文明。

我到北欧，他们有过一个海盗时代，海盗以前的时代是蒙昧，连海盗都不会做。那么大的船，我可以抢东西，乖乖自己打点鱼吃吃。但是变成野蛮时代，我在北欧感觉到，他们的教科书会记录，最早祖先都是海盗，每个国家都不回避这一点，他们觉得这个很丢人。后来慢慢进入文明，进入文明有点难度，为什么有难度？因为文化观念完全不一样，海盗最高的观念是复仇。但是进入文明时代，复仇肯定不是最高观念。在冰岛有一个法律很久，它们转型的过程和我们水泊梁山的好汉差不多，基本观念就是复仇。但是按照现代观念是错了，你为了复仇把一家杀了，把丫鬟也杀了，这个不对。他们抢了很多文明的地方，但是抢了以后，占领这个地方，他们是海盗，他们孩子要留下来读书，所以慢慢他们的后代回到那些地方完全成文明人了。

这三个阶段是交相辉映，同时存在的。比如我们现在的文明，它一定要两个对头，一个是蒙昧，一个是野蛮。文明人为什么觉得孤独和苦恼，两个对手纠缠你，一个是蒙昧，老也说不明白，一个是野蛮，它完全不讲理，就是秀才遇到兵，遇到的是野蛮。有的像榆木疙瘩似的，那个是蒙昧，这两个都成为我们文明的对头。有时候很难说，一个人自己身上，包括我身上，除了有文明的成分，也有蒙昧的成分，也有野蛮的成分。我们现在不知道，可能以后就知道了，都可能是这样的。所以，在这种情况下，摩根的划分，他有价值。