Seas of Pirates Destiny

* Ye may have noted the Towne Hall Meeting weekly has changed from Sundays to Saturdays at the same appointed hour of eleven o'clock in Pabo and Fluer's Tavern on Nassau Docks. Your scrupulous editors have not yet learned of the reason but it is rumored the Majority of the Towne has been drinking of the excellent Rum to great excess on Saturdays. Soon we will learn if the morn is more sober or the Friday night is just as wild. * An Olde Tradition in these parts is to celebrate the All Hallow's Eve with a large parade of festooned tall ships and boats, with plenty of ghosts and goblins to scare the whole region to a more righteous path. We celebrate again this year on Sunday, 25th October at 11 AM SLT. The parade starting point is in Bounty. The town folk will again vote favorites and many prizes will be awarded at a great feast to follow. Strict rules this year mean you should read them all or get disqualified. Pick up yer rules at the Nassau Tavern. 3 October 1720 Beloved

You be in Jamaica Forest and see all the hills and it is beauty. But you look sharp and you listen even sharper. You hear clanking of chains in distance. I hope you have rice. There be Rolling-Cow in Jamaica. Man say he ghost of cruel butcher them lived nearby. You see large bull with eye sockets spewing fire and dragging chains behind him. He roll down the hills. Cow sometime look like dark human pitch black with hooves. You throw handful of rice and Rolling-Cow have to stop and count each grain. Some say there be good Rolling-Cow that keep the drunks safe when they roll back to home after too much rum. I not see these yet, but i no drink rum. All duppies be afraid of light mostly, they come out in night. Rolling-Cow do not like full moon. Some say rolling cow is jus a cow get loose. Some say is duppy who was slave who die when escape. I see a momma with her babies they out play pick up sticks and it late and get dark. Ching-ching. Ching-ching, they hear chains coming near. “Ru

Traders on Barbados always get paid. You see them with their wares and they look so confident trading with the crafty pirates, but you see no weapons. And you think, why they look so assured? They keep Bacoo. Is very small man this Bacoo. He eat fruit and drink milk. Large amounts. Bacoo has an empty tummy and must be fed all the time. As long as he have full belly is fine. Is dangerous game these Bajan merchants play with the Bacoo. If his belly is empty he makes all kinds of mischief. But Bacoo is most loyal. You feed him always and he do bad things to people who no pay when they say they pay. Bacoo is said to be baby who died before he got his name. Bacoo means little brother. When Bacoo is mad he rain stones on your house and make you crazy moving all things around each night. Bacoo very hard to get rid of. You got two choices. Feed him lots of milk and fruit. Or catch him in a bottle and take it to deep sea for a proper burial.

  If you are in this region very long, you hear the stories of strange goings on, Items gone missing, People scared white as death, even of those that meet an Untimely End. The natives believe it is due to the "duppy dem live here," Ghosts, Spirits, Demons. As a publick service to you our Dear Readers, we offer the top ten Haunts in this region, to be avoided, but to be avoided on All Hallow's Eve especially. You grow up on dis island and you learn dem duppy names and where you walk fast. I tell you about some and hope you never find them. 10. Always keep the bag o' salt by your bed.  You ever see that ball of light on Trinidad? I know you did, you just never tell anyone. Is like a large fireball and make it way through the island and forest. You ever see it under your door, be a warned and run way fast. She is the Soucouyant. You mebbe think she is old nice woman in daytime, sweeping the path, but she watching you. At night she shed her skin like her old sleeping shi