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James Buffitt was a minstrel in Blackpool, but singing warn’t covering his head at night. He signed on with the East India Trading Company to earn some money to try and get his career off the ground. Lo and behold the EITC sent him on a galleon to the Caribbean. His first night in Port Royal he got drunk in the Rowdy Rooster with some guy named Jack. They had a grand time singing about Changes in attitude and Changes in latitude and a song about being the Son of a Son of a Sailor.
Jack and James decided to head to another tavern and exited the Rowdy Rooster only to encounter a Navy soldier outside. The soldier yelled “Jack Sparrow!!!” Two other soldiers that were standing in the archway down the road came running. James turned to go back into the Rowdy Rooster thinking of nothing but getting away from this “Jack” character that the Navy was after, but as he turned the soldier hit poor James in the head with the butt of his rifle. Out went James.
He woke up the next morning in a jail cell with this Jack Sparrow guy. Jack told him “You look like I feel, mate.” Jack then proceeded to help young James escape with instructions to meet up with him in some tavern in a place called Tortuga. James, knowing his time with the EITC was at an end and that he would no longer be welcomed back in England, decided that the best course would be to find this Jack Sparrow and begin a new life as a pirate.
And thus began the adventure....
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