Disclaimer: If I owned them, I wouldn't be writing this. I'd be in Scotland. Or Hawaii. Or the Caribbean, come to think of it.
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25 April,
Ma finally told me who da is! He's a pirate! His ship's the Black Pearl! His name's Jack Sparrow. He likes you to say "captain" Jack Sparrow, if you don't He gets mad. It's fun to watch!
There's only one girl on the ship, (don't call the Pearl a boat, it makes the Captain mad) her name's Anamaria. She 'as to work twice as hard as the guys, and only cause she's a girl!
There be a pirate that's very superstitious. His name's Gibbs. He thinks girls are bad luck when on a ship!! The Captain says it be worse to leave him. Ha! So there Gibbs!
I can't call the Captain da yet. I dunno if he's ready to be called da yet.
The girl pirate – Anamaria – thinks it be funny Jack has a daughter. She likes to make fun of him. She's nice to me, though. I like her.
We're on the way to Port Royal. I dunno what Jack plans on doing with me. Probably drop me in a orphanage somewhere.
I have to share a cabin with Anamaria. Well, it sure beats having' to listen to Ma and her "clients". Yuck.
I'll write later.
Jackie
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27 April,
You'd be surprised how dull it is on the ship. Nothing new happens. Well, besides the pranks Anamaria and Jack pull on each other.
I dunno why Jack lets Ana Maria stay on the ship. Maybe he likes her more than he'd admit… Hm, I'll have to think about that…
Anamaria tells me that we'll be reaching this Port Royal in the next few days. Like, three. I told her, "Good" and she said, "don't let Jack hear you talking like that. It hurts his feeling's when you insult his ship like that," I told her that I thought she was supposed to call him Captain. She didn't think it was very funny.
Jack also likes to drink rum. The thing is, you can hardly tell when he's drunk and when he isn't. That's how he walks the whole time. It is very entertaining.
I am going. Anamaria's calling me for supper. I hope it's better than last time.
---Jackie
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April 27, continued
Jack taught me a song. He said a girl named Elizabeth taught it to him on a island somewhere. I'm not sure I believe him.
Here are the words:
"Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me
We
pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot
Drink up me hearties, yo
ho
We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot
Drink up me
hearties, yo ho
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me
We
extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack
Drink up me hearties, yo
ho
Maraud and embezzle and even high-jack
Drink up me hearties
yo ho
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me
We
kindle and char, inflame and ignite
Drink up me hearties, yo ho
We
burn up the city, we're really a fright
Drink up me hearties, yo
ho
We're
rascals, scoundrels, villains, and knaves
Drink up me hearties, yo
ho
We're devils and black sheep, really bad eggs
Drink up me
hearties, yo ho
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me
We're
beggars and blighters and ne'er do-well cads
Drink up me hearties,
yo ho
Aye, but we're loved by our mommies and dads
Drink up me
hearties, yo ho"
He said when he was being taught it; he was on a desert island somewhere. He said it was the second time he'd been put there. He never did say WHY he was on the island, though. Anamaria will probably tell me.
He also told me that the last captain of the Black Pearl was a man named Barbossa. HE said that when the moonlight hit him and his crew that they turned into skeletons. I don't believe him. Anamaria says it's true, though…
-Jackie
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29 April, early morning,
I can see Port Royal in the distance. Jack says that there be a cave around the side of it that he'll park the boat in.
He says that me and him will go alone and he'll take me to where we're he's planning on taking me. E still hasn't told' me yet. It can get annoying, not knowing things like that.
Whatever he's planning on doing with me, I hope it's something I'll like.
O, Jack told' me a story. I'm not sure if I believe him, but it was entertaining. I'm gonna start from the middle, where it's the most interesting:
"After the mutinous crew dropped me off on the Island, I stood in the water for 3 days an' 3 nights. An' all sorts of sea animals came to me. So I tied together 2 sea turtles, an' floated of the Island."
"What' did you tie them with?"
"Human hair. From my back."
"Wouldn't 2 turtles be too small?"
He blinked. I don't think it dawned on him that someone would ask. "No."
"Mhmm."
I smirked at him, and walked off. I think I was the first one who didn't believe him.