Pirates - by Eh Htoo Wah

                                                              Pirates

‘’Pirates’’ when people hear this word most think of a person with a wooden leg and wooden teeth and they behave like animals. Well that is not entirely true, most were just poor people that may have lost their jobs or had their belongings stolen from them. They had to find a job to make money so they could eat and feed their family and some choose to be pirates. Although some were very cruel and only cared about money and would do anything to get it and some just wanted the money. At the end of a raid they would get a share of the loot they stole but the rules are that the captain got more than the crew and the cook and cleaners get less than the crew. Cooks were mainly just crew members who lost an arm or a leg in battle.

In battle they must be scary and loud because they want the people to surrender so they can have a quick raid. But raids don’t always go smoothly because some of the people will fight back and in the end some of the pirates will die. There are two flags that the pirates had: the red one means that they will show no mercy and will kill anyone but the black means that if you surrender then that will not hurt you but steal your loot.

Life as a pirate is not easy. Sometimes they will get lost at sea and just have to sail blindly and also control the food stock so they don’t die of hunger or dehydration. The problem when they are short of food is that they hardly ever fish. They think it is a waste of their time and even if they caught some fish it may not be worth it. 

Scurvy was big then with pirates because they could not eat a lot of fruits and veggies and so they lacked vitamin C and this would cause a slow death. Also the Spanish, British and English started hunting down Pirates with steam powered ships and so they could not escape because they used sailboats. That was the end of the golden age of pirates.

Today's pirates are more dangerous with guns and with motor boats. Also they do not steal 

From ships and boats instead they kidnap people and demand a high amount of money to set the people free.