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| | Captain Kidd |
 | | On the fourth of July, 1696, Captain Kidd in the Adventure Galley glided into the harbor, and greeted the people of Manhattan with a couple of shots from his cannon to announce his triumphant return home. |
 | | Only a man with towering self-confidence (or a death wish) would dare to load his ship with former pirates or friends of pirates who, mid-voyage, with any ill luck, might find themselves shooting at cousins or neighbors. |
 | | Captain Kidd, on this summer day in 1696, was forty-two years old, in the prime of his life, physically vigorous, able to outmuscle most of his crew. |
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