![]() ![]() ![]() But it is some days later before Jack meets the dreadful pirate captain himself: I got a great shock, for he was not as I'd ever pictured him. He is spared and put to work with the gin-soaked pirate cook Pobjoy. All the honest crew are dead when he is eventually hauled onto the deck. ![]() And you might think that life has dished up the worst it can offer, until you crouch, terrified, in the blackness of the hold listening to the ship you have stowed away on being seized by pirates. You'd probably run away to sea too, if you were in his position. He doesn't have anything of his own, no family, no home, not even a proper name of his own. ![]()
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