The profession of "pirate-hunter" is ultimately based on the simple fact that things get lost.
It's a little-known fact that, just as ships have been lost in the undersea world, so too are things lost in the publishing world.
After the manuscript for The Lost Fleet:The Discovery of a Sunken Armada From the Golden Age was first submitted, the editor requested that we replace one of the chapters. The editor felt that it should be reserved for use in the book that eventually became Return to Treasure Island and the Search for Captain Kidd.
To make a long story short, the chapter in question did not--for a variety of reasons--make it into "RTTI" either!
Rather than letting it suffer the fate of permanent relegation to the "Island of Lost Labors" we've accordingly posted it here.
It has been modified somewhat in the years since 2002--for example, extensive footnotes have been added as substantiation for some rather startling points that are not normally encountered in other sources on piracy.
The material will be of most interest to those who wish to learn more about the pirates Thomas Paine, Samuel Bellamy, Palgrave Williams and how they proved to be connected.
The chapter also has a bearing on the famouse legend of Goody Hallett and Black Sam Bellamy--"the Witch and the Pirate".
The Lost Chapter
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