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"You'd better get so to babble"

"This is no Disneyland," said Renee, suppressing a yawn

Pitt turned and nodded his head and pointed toward the sea beyond the bow "Then why are we about to enter the Pirates of the Caribbean?"

All heads turned in unison, and all eyes stared into the dark water that ended where the stars began They saw a faint yello that slowly increased in brilliance as Poco Bonito moved steadily toward it They stood there frozen in silence as the glolyship that beca minute

For atouch with reality, until Pitt spoke in a quiet,to show up"

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The ed For nearly a minute, no one moved No one spoke as they stared uneasily at the bizarre phenomenon Finally, Gunn broke the silence

"The same Hunt the pirate the admiral warned us about?"

"No, Hunt the buccaneer"

"It can't be real" Renee stared in awe, refusing to believe what her eyes relayed to her brain "Are we really looking at a ghost ship?"

Pitt's lips curled in a vague smile "Only in the eye of the beholder" Then he paraphrased from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner "With never a whisper in the sea, oft darts the Odyssey ship"

"Who was Hunt?" asked Dodge, in a voice close to a quaver

"A buccaneer who roahty, when he was captured by a British Royal Navy ship and fed to the sharks"

Not wanting to look at the phanto, and muttered, "What's the difference between a pirate and buccaneer?"

"Very little," answered Pitt "Pirate is a general term that covers British, Dutch and French seafarers who captured merchant ships for prize money and treasure The term buccaneer comes frorill their meat and dry it Unlike privateers, who had valid coovernment, buccaneers preyed on any ship, mostly Spanish, without papers They were also known as freebooters"