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With the better jurisdiction introduced by this Western power these nests became untenable, and the lucrative trade VOL. CCXXII.-NO. MCCCXLIV. of piracy shifted its headquarters to Bias Bay and West River, where it flourishes till this day. In the old days the pirates used to depend upon stratagems to board the ship they had marked down for their prey. Their usual method with the outer barbarians was to trade on their inexplicable chivalry. The pirates would pretend to be in distress, and when the unsuspecting crew of clipper or barque picked them up, the rescuers would find that they had helped aboard not a crew of distressed brothers of the sea but a gang of insatiable and cruel sea parasites, who would reward their gallantry with death. Different times, other manners. Nowadays the pirate problem has been simplified to Q |