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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.
Dr. Zi Yang Jiang, a head
and neck surgeon at Univer-
sity of Texas Health Science
Center at Houston, said he sees
one or two cases arising from
repressed sneezes each year,
making them an “exceedingly
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he said. Jiang said in most
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