Since the world entered the Ages, pirates have had their own place to witness their power. The sea is the only region on earth that can accommodate these crazed water bands.
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Among the pirate stories that have been told by adventurers, Captain William Kidd is one of the most famous pirates, thanks to the legend of a great treasure belonging to which is still hidden today.
The story of Captain Kidd's treasure has invited treasure hunters to look for it. Since the 1700s, they have searched everywhere, from Nova Scotia, to the South China Sea.
William Kidd was the son of a Scottish-born priest, who began his career as a “privateer” – a ship captain employed by the government to attack intruder ships – for the British empire in the West Indies.
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After moving to America, Kidd was again hired as a privateer to fight French ships and pirates who harassed British ships. Kidd received a sizeable fee from the British government, including the right to loot all the goods on enemy ships before being sunk.
After completing his duties as a privateer, in November 1696, Captain Kidd and his crew sailed to the Indian Ocean using the ship "Adventure Galley". However, after sailing for a year, he did not find good results.
In his voyage, Kidd found many events and adventures, which inspired him to continue sailing in the ocean. In order to achieve his wish, Captain Kidd needs a lot of money for his various needs. Finally Kidd decided to become a pirate, a "profession" that he had always destroyed.
As a novice pirate, Kidd started by sailing a lot in the Red Sea region. At that time, he attacked every ship that passed in these waters, including merchant ships belonging to the government, which he previously protected.
In a dispute that occurred on his ship, Kidd killed his gunman. Most of the crew finally agreed to leave Kidd while in Madagascar. When his ship has reached the West Indies, Kidd finds out that he has been declared a famous pirate, who is being hunted by many kingdoms.
Captain Kidd then returned to America in 1698 to explain to the British government that he was innocent. While in New York, Kidd met the Gardiner family, and kept a large amount of treasure from his voyage with the family, which some believe had been hidden on one of the islands in the Long Island Strait.
Kidd then sailed to Boston, where he was captured by British troops. He was then sent to Old Bailey, England, for trial. In his defense, Kidd said that he was forced by his men to hijack the merchants' ships, but that statement could not be substantiated. The British government found Kidd guilty of the crime of pirates, and he was sentenced to hang on May 23, 1701.
After his death, the British government confiscated all of Kidd's possessions they could find. However, they believe that the confiscated property is only a small part of all Kidd's assets. Since then, the name of the Pirate Captain Kidd became very famous throughout the world because of the existence of a very mysterious treasure.
More than a century after his death, Edgar Allen Poe was convinced that Captain Kidd had secretly buried most of his treasure on the island of Gardiner. According to him, Kidd made a cryptogram map in the form of numbers to keep the location of the island a secret.
But after some time of searching without success, Poe turned his experience into the material for the book The Golden Bug.
According to another story, Captain Kidd's treasure resides on the uninhabited island of Screecham, located off the coast of Cape Cod, where according to a developing story, the treasure is guarded by a very ferocious creature.
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