Cap ' n Dugal ' s Journal , Book II Cap ' n Dugal ' s Journal , Book II is a book in ' s official plug - in , " The Thieves Den " , and is an autobiographical work by a pirate named Captain Torradan ap Dugal , who was the captain of the infamous Black Flag . He and his Red Sabre pirates now defend the remains of the Black Flag in Dunbarrow Cove as skeletons . Acquisition . Before he died , he wrote a journal separated into four books which are located on the floor in the captain ' s quarters of the Black Flag . Content . After the cap ' n were hung , I got around Hammerfell a lot . Fell in with a few crews here an ' there , an ' after a time got myself hired on as midshipman on Cap ' n Kaladas ' s rig . A ' course , Kaladas was a drunkard and the damn fool ran his own ship a ' ground in Anvil a ' fore we could any real piratin ' done . So embarrassed were he that he drank hisself to death in one of the pisshole taverns in this flat little seawater town . So there I were , in a backwater port when the war against the Usurper broke out . I were out on hire with a rickety tub and her worthless rot of a cap ' n when The Imperial Navy stole ev ' ry private ship in port to go an ' fight their war . We was comin ' back in to dock when we heard about it . Now , only a fool doesn ' t bite when he smells blood in the water and that cap ' n o ' ours was gonna hand his rudder over to the Navy . The rest of us , well , we didn ' t so much like that . We cut his throat and tossed his worthless carcass to the depths for Herm ' us Mora to feast on . The rest of us put keel to this mudhole and broke for the nearest cove to lay low for a while . Now , the thing that I learned about war is that it ' s profit ' ble for just about everyone except for the poor bastards that actually have to go an ' fight it . While the Navy were busy puttin ' down the rev ' lution , they were too busy to worry about a bunch o ' pirates runnin ' up and down the Gold Coast . And even better for us , the Navy was needin ' a stream of supplies up in High Rock to fight and dinna have the ships to escort ' em . . In case you don ' t be knowin ' , cargo vessels without escort is a pirate ' s best friend . In just a couple of years , I had ev ' ry buccaneer from here to Valenwood flyin ' under me flag . We had dozens of ships and crew and more men joined on e ' ry day . Soldiers and sailors , castoffs from the war , escaped prisoners - - they were the best cutthroats and sons o ' whores that a pirate cap ' n could ever wish for . It brings a tear to me eye to think of ' em all . But even better than the men were the ships : Captured navy cutters . Refitted priv ' teer Galleons . Even had a few of them bosmer ships with the funny living sails in my fleet . The finest ship I saved for meself . " The Black Flag " . Ye ' ll find her rotting hull around here . She don ' t look like much now , but I can tell ye that in her day , there weren ' t no vessel she couldn ' t out run . All these men and ships , we called ourselves the Red Sabre . The merchant ships called us death on the seas . We gots to be so feared that most crews jus ' abandoned ship when they seen our flag on the horizon . With no Navy to stop us , Captain Torradan ap Dugal and the Red Sabre was known all over the east . Now , I ain ' t one to brag , but the empire had a bounty on me of forty thousand coins . Now that ' s somthin ' to be proud of . A ' course , the poor bastards couldn ' t never collect on it . Anvil being the wretched den that it is - an mos ' sailors there worked for me anyhow - - the Legion couldn ’ t never get no one to give me up . I wish those days coulda lasted fore ' er , but you know how it is , friend . Ain ' t nothing good can ever last .