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The long-established nature of this horizontal suspension method has been documented by Barbot's 1679 drawings of Gold Coast ornaments and by gold ornaments recovered from the 1717 wreckage of the slave ship Whydah, as well as by those taken from the Asante capital by British troops in 1874. Until archeologists began excavating the Whydah (pronounced WID-da), named after the African ``widow bird,'' or the African port of the same name, there was little evidence available to show how the pirates lived. Still, they said the find was historically exciting because only one other pirate ship had ever come to light: the Whydah, the ship of Samuel (Black Sam) Bellamy, which sank off Cape Cod, Mass. |
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