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Pirates drank Rum?- Who Woulda Thunk It! |
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Aug 8, 07 - 2:25 PM |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/us/08pirate.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin |
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Excerpt from NY Times:
PROVINCETOWN, Mass., Aug. 7 — As pirate treasure goes, it does not look like much.
About the size of a small car, the mass of fused black metal is spotted with rust and studded with barnacles. It smells like low tide, and at one point Tuesday morning a crab scurried from under it.
But to Barry Clifford, an underwater explorer, and the two dozen or so people gathered at MacMillan Pier here on Tuesday morning to see it raised from the ocean after 290 years, the object is a treasure, a tangible piece of pirate lore.
“Look, it’s a piece of glass,” Mr. Clifford said excitedly as he scrutinized the object, which lay on a flatbed.
“I bet it’s a bottle of rum,” said Nelson Disco of Merrimack, N.H., who is vacationing here and watched the salvage operation....
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