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| | Pirate Strongholds & Hideouts |
 | | When the Spanish arrived in Jamaica, there were somewhere between 60,000 and 100,000 Arawaks inhabiting the island. |
 | | By the time the English took over the island in 1655, they had disappeared — killed off by imported diseases or the cruel treatment from their Castilian overlords. |
 | | Some, it is said, chose to kill their children and commit suicide by drinking poisonous cassava juice rather than succumb to the ordeal of Spanish rule. |
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