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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: chanced that way--a certain Major Stede Bonnet, of whom more will
presently be said. About that time a royal proclamation had been
issued offering pardon to all pirates in arms who would surrender
to the king's authority before a given date. So up goes Master
Blackbeard to the Governor of North Carolina and makes his neck
safe by surrendering to the proclamation--albeit he kept tight
clutch upon what he had already gained.
And now we find our bold Captain Blackbeard established in the
good province of North Carolina, where he and His Worship the
Governor struck up a vast deal of intimacy, as profitable as it
was pleasant. There is something very pretty in the thought of
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