Click2Flicks - Pirates of the Caribbean - Chapter 7 - Pirate-Age Port Royal

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN</p> <p><font size=4>CHAPTER 7 - PIRATE-AGE PORT ROYAL</p></b></font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3"><a href="http://www.noquartergiven.net/jamaica.htm" target="_blank"><b>Today</b></a>, Port Royal is the scene of amazing archeological excavation. Although much of the work is done under water, the results allow us to see the <a href="http://nautarch.tamu.edu/portroyal/archives/bldg4-5detail.htm" target="_blank"><b>town</b></a> (and its homes) that was the center of Caribbean pirate activity. It is, like Pompeii, a kind of museum that was frozen in time.</p> <p>The darkly shaded areas in this <a href="images/drawing.gif" target="_blank"><b>drawing</b></a> depict what was <a target="_blank" href="images/left.jpg"><b>left</b></a> of <a target="_blank" href="images/portroyal.gif"><b>Port Royal</b></a> after the town slid into the sea. Why was the damage so widespread? According to experts:</p> <blockquote><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>...two-thirds of Port Royal plunged/submerged beneath the sea due to the widespread failure of water saturated unconsolidated sands. Heavy brick houses were built on the sand, and during the earthquake "the ground gave way as far as the houses stood, and no further, part of the fort and the Palisades on the other end of the houses standing. The whole neck of land being sandy (except for the fort, which was built on a rock, and stood) on which the town was built"</i></b> (Philosophical Transactions, 1694)</font></blockquote> <p align="justify">As four decades of underwater <a href="http://nautarch.tamu.edu/portroyal/archhist.htm" target="_blank"><b>excavations</b></a> continue, who knows what additional <a href="http://nautarch.tamu.edu/portroyal/artifacts.html" target="_blank"><b>artifacts</b></a> will be found from the heyday of Pirates of the Caribbean? Of one thing we can sure: Our collective fascination with the time, place and people will continue well into the future.</p> <blockquote>NOTE: Angus Konstam's book, <a href="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1841764523.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" target="_blank"><b><i>Pirates: Terror on the High Seas</i></b></a>, which is beautifully illustrated by Angus McBride, is an especially useful guide on the subject of Caribbean pirates.</blockquote> </div> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><a href="pirates_caribbean_ch6.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>     <a href="pirates_caribbean_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>    <a href="pirates_caribbean_ch8.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body>