Pistoleer: Pirates by Smith Skye

Author:Smith, Skye
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: plantation, dragon, best, slavers, pistol, bermuda, spanish main, flintlock, earl of warwick, providence company
Publisher: Skye Smith

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The Pistoleer - Pirates by Skye Smith Copyright 2013-14

Chapter 12 - An all woman crew in the Wash in October 1641

The women on the oars rowed along the length of the big cargo fluyt, which seemed very tall and very fat compared to their low slung single masted coastal ship, the Freisburn. Daniel tried to ignore the whistles and cat calls from the fluyt's crew. It used to be rare for a large ship such as this fluyt to be taking on cargo at Lynn, or King's Lynn as it was named on navy charts, but not anymore. Was it any wonder that the small coastal ships of The Wash such as the Freisburn were no longer paying for themselves.

Daniel and the only other two men on board were embarrassed by the lewd calls, but the oarsmen, err, oarswomen were eating it up as they rowed slowly along the length of the fluyt. The crew of the fluyt had a bird's eye view down their heaving cleavage every time the women pulled on the oars.

"Kill me now," old Cleff muttered from his position on the tiller. Davey on the bow watch was hiding his face from the locals on Lynn quay. Poor Davey was but fifteen and had just lost his mother to the complications of a late pregnancy. On this ship, that meant that he was the darling of the oars.. er..women, most of whom had offered to comfort the pretty lad in their beds since his mothers funeral.

That was the tradition in their village of Wellenhay, and Wellenhay was nothing if it was not traditional. The women accepted their role of teaching the young men how to be with a woman. This was certainly not a tradition of English Christians, but was very common amongst Anglo-Frisian pagans. It was also the tradition of the village women to use the olde North Sea trading language of Frisian as the cradle language of their children. This not only kept the olde tongue alive, but it made it easier for the children to learn other North Sea languages like English and Dutch and Danish, all of which were related through similar Frisian roots.

The Frisian folk on both sides of the North Sea were renown for two things ... their absolute pig headedness, and for breeding the finest of bloodlines. Frisian cattle and Frisian horses were always in demand in the Low Countries, but Frisian women were in demand all over Europe. Not that the women were pretty. Davey was prettier than most of the oarswomen, but only because he was still in his teens.

Frisian babies were born cute, became gangly as children, pretty as teens, but handsome as adults. As for old age, most men did not see it, and the old women were best left described as formidable. The Frisian bloodlines meant fair hair and eyes, but skin with more color than the milky white skin of the blonde English, and clearer than the freckled skin of the redheads.

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