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hostly vessel was only a half a ave the apparition a surrealistic ie As it neared and the details of the ship beca across the water began to be heard aboard the phantom

She was a square-rigged barque with three masts and a shallow draft, a favorite vessel of pirates before the seventeen hundreds The foresails and topsails were billowing in a nonexistent breeze She uns, five run out on the main deck on both sides Men with bandanas around their head were standing on the quarterdeck, waving swords High on herskull dripping blood stood straight out as if the ship was sailing against a headwind

The expressions on the faces of those on the Poco Bonito varied fro to acade at cold pizza, while Pitt peered through binoculars at the phantas a science fiction h "Are you mad?" Renee demanded

He handed her the glasses "Look at theon the quarterdeck and tell me what you see"

She stared through the lenses "A man with a feathered hat"

"What else sets him apart from the others"

"He has a peg leg and a hook on his right hand"

"Don't forget the eye patch"

"Yes There's that too"

"All that'sis a parrot on one shoulder"

She lowered the binoculars "I don't understand"

"A bit stereotyped, don't you think?"

An old Navy host ship's change of course al to cross our bow"

"I hope she isn't planning on giving us a broadside," Giordino said half in jest, half seriously