Leituras

«For the supression of piracy, the Portuguese, in their early intercourse with India, had a summary punishment, and accompanied it with a terrible example to deter others from the commission of the crime. Whenever they took a pirate ship, they instantly hanged every man, carried away the sails, rudder, and everything that was valuable in the ship, and left her to be buffeted about the winds and the waves, with the carcasses of the criminals dangling from the yards, a horrid object of terror to all who might chance to fall in with her.»

Sir John Barrow, Mutiny!: The Real Story of the H. M. S. Bounty (1831), pp. 141-142

Ed. Folio Society, Londres, 3.ª ed, 1999