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NATION/WORLD East Oregonian Page 6A Tuesday, January 16, 2018 New discovery finds pirates liked books with their booty “People always assume pirates are ruffians from bad backgrounds, and that wasn’t always the case.” By MARTHA WAGGONER Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. — Dead men tell no tales, but there’s new evidence that somebody aboard the pirate Black- beard’s flagship harbored books among the booty. In an unusual find, researchers have discovered shreds of paper bearing legible printing that somehow survived three centuries underwater on the sunken vessel. And after more than a year of research that ranged as far as Scotland, they managed to identify them as fragments of a book about nautical voyages published in the early 1700s. Conservators for Black- beard’s ship the Queen Anne’s Revenge found the 16 fragments of paper wedged inside the chamber for a breech-loading cannon, with the largest piece being the size of a quarter. The Queen Anne’s Revenge had been a French slave ship when Blackbeard captured it in 1717 and renamed it. The vessel ran aground in Beaufort, in what was then the colony of North Carolina, in June 1718. Volunteers with the Royal Navy killed Blackbeard in Ocracoke Inlet that same year. — Kimberly Kenyon, conservator of Queen Anne’s Revenge North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources via AP This undated photo made available by the North Car- olina Department of Natural Resources shows a piece of paper from books found on board Blackbeard’s ship the Queen Anne’s Revenge. To find paper in the 300-year-old shipwreck in warm waters is “almost un- heard of,” said Erik Farrell, a conservator at the QAR Conservation Lab in Greenville. Tens of thousands of artifacts have been recovered since Florida-based research firm Intersal Inc. located the shipwreck off the North Carolina coast in 1996 but few, if any, are as surprising as pieces of paper. To find paper in a 300-year-old shipwreck in warm waters is “almost unheard of,” said Erik Farrell, a conservator at the QAR Conservation Lab in Greenville. Eventually, the conser- vators determined that the words “south” and “fathom” were in the text, suggesting a maritime or navigational book. But one word, Hilo, stood out because it was both capitalized and in italics, said Kimberly Kenyon, also a conservator at the lab. They turned to Johanna Green, a specialist in the history of printed text at the University of Glasgow, who pointed them to the Spanish settlement of Ilo — or Hilo — on the coast of Peru. The fragments eventually were determined to be from a 1712 first edition of a book by Capt. Edward Cooke titled “A Voyage to the South Seas, and Round the World, Peform’d in the years 1708, 1709, 1710 and 1711.” It’s impossible to say who aboard Blackbeard’s ship would have been reading the voyage narrative — a form popular in England in the 17th and 18th century — or whether it belonged to a pirate or some terrified captive. But some pirates were known to be literate, Kenyon said. For example, Stede Bonnett, the “gentleman pirate” who joined Black- beard in 1717, had his own library. It’s not known if he brought his books on the Queen Anne’s Revenge. A history of pirates written in 1724 mentions a journal belonging to Blackbeard that was taken when he was killed. And when Blackbeard captured a ship called the Margaret in December 1717, the list of items taken from the ship included books, Farrell said. “They were literate men,” Kenyon said. “People always assume pirates are ruffians from bad backgrounds, and that wasn’t always the case.” The survival of the paper fragments is perhaps even more unusual than their existence aboard the pirate vessel. The chamber in which they were found was a sepa- rate piece of a breech-loading swivel gun that was likely kept on the top deck because it was used as an anti-per- sonnel weapon, Farrell said. Conservators don’t have the cannon itself, which likely was salvaged or stolen when the Queen Anne’s Revenge ran aground. In cannons of that period, “wadding” material such as cloth or paper would usually be stuffed behind a cannonball. So it’s also possible someone just tore up the book without reading it to use it for fire- power. Conservators had removed a wooden plug from the chamber so they could clean it when they discovered the paper fragments stuffed in there, along with pieces of fabric in May 2016, Farrell said. That mass was removed easily enough, but prying the fragments from the fabric was more tedious and time-consuming, he said. The combination of fabric and the plug likely protected the paper, which normally would have disintegrated in water, Farrell said. Warning: Stifling sneezes can be health hazard in rare cases By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer AP Photo/Roberto Pfeil, File According to a case study published Monday, in the journal BMJ Case Reports, doctors in England say sti- fling a big sneeze can be hazardous for your health in rare cases, based on the very unusual experience of a man who ruptured the back of his throat when he tried to stop a sneeze. LONDON — Tempted to stifle a loud or untimely sneeze? Let it out instead, doctors in England warned Monday based on the very unusual case of a man who ruptured the back of his throat when he tried to suppress a sneeze. In a case study published in the journal BMJ Case Reports, doctors described their initial confusion when the previously healthy man turned up in the emergency room of a Leicester hospital, complaining of swallowing difficulties and “a popping sensation” in his swollen neck. The 34-year-old patient told them his problems started after he tried to stop a forceful sneeze by pinching his nose and closing his mouth. He eventually lost his voice and spent a week in the hospital. “When you sneeze, air comes out of you at about 150 miles per hour,” said Dr. Anthony Aymat, director for ear, nose and throat services at London’s University Hospital Lewisham, who was not involved in the case. “If you retain all that pressure, it could do a lot of damage and you could end up like the Michelin Man with air trapped in your body.” While examining the sneeze-averse patient, doctors in Leicester heard “crackling in the neck” down to his ribcage, a sign that air bubbles had seeped into his chest. Worried about infection and other possible complications, they admitted him to the hospital, gave him a feeding tube and adminis- tered antibiotics, according to details published in BMJ Case Reports. 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