CHAPTER FIVE
Smoke & Mirrors
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Tobacco spread to England in 1565 by way of Portugal. By 1603, England had become the wealthiest country in Europe (partly thanks to its dominant role in the tobacco trade) and was taxing the crop at 2 shillings per pound weight. It wasn’t until 1614 that King James I granted the exclusive rights to importing tobacco - paying £3,500 for the first year, rising to £7,000 each year for the next decade to the father of the man William Kidd and his Irish wife—standing beside him in a flowing white and blue gown--were now before. The man, after an extensive draw and expulsion of smoke from his highly wrought pipe, spoke with a bottomless & British sound: “King James once said, ‘The wife must either take up smoking or resolve to live in a perpetual smoking torment’”. He drew his tobacco cylinder again. “You’ve treated my Sara well, young William. "
“I’m honored, Sir,” Kidd responded in kind. He was anticipating something. The man signaled Sara to leave the lavish library the three were the compliment of. Nearby, a chest of drawers festooned with candles and a navigational globe had scattered athwart it well-spined books, pamphlets, and maps.
The gentlemen walked to the chest. The man reached beneath a stack of leaflets and pulled out an opulently designed booklet. He carefully handed it to William who examined its contents; sheets of carefully scripted English, charts, annotations, etc… Kidd centered on some curious navigational graphs. One craftily drawn inset boasted two identically round cryptograms. The one on the left had a crucifix above it and the one on the right—a crucifix overturned.
CHAPTER SIX
Chapters
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 & 22, 23, 24, 25, Epilogue
Smoke & Mirrors
Copyright 2004, All Rights Reserved
Tobacco spread to England in 1565 by way of Portugal. By 1603, England had become the wealthiest country in Europe (partly thanks to its dominant role in the tobacco trade) and was taxing the crop at 2 shillings per pound weight. It wasn’t until 1614 that King James I granted the exclusive rights to importing tobacco - paying £3,500 for the first year, rising to £7,000 each year for the next decade to the father of the man William Kidd and his Irish wife—standing beside him in a flowing white and blue gown--were now before. The man, after an extensive draw and expulsion of smoke from his highly wrought pipe, spoke with a bottomless & British sound: “King James once said, ‘The wife must either take up smoking or resolve to live in a perpetual smoking torment’”. He drew his tobacco cylinder again. “You’ve treated my Sara well, young William. "
“I’m honored, Sir,” Kidd responded in kind. He was anticipating something. The man signaled Sara to leave the lavish library the three were the compliment of. Nearby, a chest of drawers festooned with candles and a navigational globe had scattered athwart it well-spined books, pamphlets, and maps.
The gentlemen walked to the chest. The man reached beneath a stack of leaflets and pulled out an opulently designed booklet. He carefully handed it to William who examined its contents; sheets of carefully scripted English, charts, annotations, etc… Kidd centered on some curious navigational graphs. One craftily drawn inset boasted two identically round cryptograms. The one on the left had a crucifix above it and the one on the right—a crucifix overturned.
CHAPTER SIX
Chapters
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 & 22, 23, 24, 25, Epilogue
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