Flames flicker everywhere. He stands tall and lean. Pieces of rope burn like fuses among coils of his black hair. Sashes stuffed with pistols and daggers crisscross his huge chest. Black ribbons flap from the braids in his beard.
Terrified sailors flee.
Blackbeard and his fierce crew have pirated another ship. Blackbeard and his crew of pirates terrorized sailors on the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea from 1716 through 1718. They ambushed ships carrying passengers and cargo in the dim light of dawn and dusk when the pirates' ship was hard to see. The pirates often determined a ship's nationality first. Now able to draw close to the unsuspecting ship, the pirates hoisted Blackbeard's flag only at the last moment.