1670, Caribbean Sea. She's the daughter of a legendary pirate. He's a Spanish captain. Their countries are at war. Their fathers killed each other. And they were destined to follow on their steps.
But sometimes destiny isn't written in stone: it's w...
The first map is a quick look at the most important places the story visits.
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**New Spain: The viceroyalty that later became Mexico. **Spanish Main: South America. **La Hispaniola: the island currently divided in Rep. Dominicana and Haiti **Bajamar Islands: Original Spanish name the English tried to adopt, and over time changed into Bahamas. Bajamar = low tide. **Windward Islands: Lesser Antilles.
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The French stronghold, berthing of the Brethren of the Coast, is a tiny slice of land ten miles north of modern Haiti. Pretty much a long hill stretching from east to west with good timberland and some patches and strips of flat land with good soil for growing tobacco. The tiny square under the words "bien cultivée" points at the location of Fort-de-Rocher, a 40-gun fortress built by Governor Jean Le Vasseur about 1635. Cayona was located between Fort-de-Rocher and the coast, and it was the larger of two towns --the other one is believed to have been on the west end of the island, and it was the English basecamp until the French kicked them out. Then they took over Jamaica in 1655 and moved there. If you take a look at the map, you'll see the crosses all along the northern coast, pointing at reefs and shoals that make it almost unreachable from the sea. Cayona Bay, on the south coast, was enclosed by two massive reefs you can also see on the map, and pilots needed to know their thing on the steering wheel to slip a boat between them in order to reach the port.
