The Purple Paw: A Letter From the Past in the Eye of....a Carthaginian Warrior of Hannibal

Monday, December 3, 2012

A Letter From the Past in the Eye of....a Carthaginian Warrior of Hannibal

Dear Selena,

I miss you so much, Selena. How are you doing? How is the rest of the family? I have so many questions....
Well, scene it's so hard to send letters, I suppose that I'll write a little on what I'm doing right now. Although I really do wish that I could be home right now, instead of being precariously balanced on this awful, narrow ledge....
      I know that I sound like I'm complaining, and I probably am, merely using this letter as an excuse to bemoan about it. Though, I must say in me defense, it is hard not to bellyache
   Anyway, Sis, right now me and the rest of the warriors are camping on what there is to camp on. I fear for my and my many companions' lives. Every day, someone falls of the edge into the impervious hands of Fate. Or dies of overexposure or of something equally likely and awful as that.
   Germelqart, I sorrowfully and tearfully say, died yesterday. As he was making is way along this calamitous and sender ledge. His horse...lost its footing on the slippery and icy 'trail', as Hunnibal calls it. They plunged into the ravine.
   At first, when I was writing my letter to you, I put it off, for I knew that you would be as distraught as I was. After all, there are enough hardships to face as it is. I hope that you understand, Sis.
    Anyway, We must get onto the less negative things, for there is only so much paper to write on. We shall send our blessings to our poor lost friend, but we must move on. As I know, there are many who suffer just as we do, some suffer even worse.
     We are nearing Rome now. Abut, though Hunnibal is positive, I know that there are others who fear what I fear. What if we have lost to many? What if we are overcome by the massive rankings of the Roman army, who is superior to us? What if all of those lost warriors died in vain...?
      I know that it is wrong to lose faith in our leader, but I don't see how we can keep the trust we once had in Hunnibal. It is the impossible, as most of us believe.
       And now I think of all of those happy times we and the rest of the family spent together, as you told me to. I shall forever cherish these wondrous, dream-like memories, but they just seem to make me sadder and wish to be back home even more....

Yours sincerely,

Kanmi

-KittyLover8
© 2012

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Famous Pirates

Blackbeard, also Edward Teach:

Blackbeard is one of the most well-known pirates, and one of the most terrifying, at that. When he was about to pillage a ship, Blackbeard would light fuses in is large black beard to strike fear into the hearts of the crewmen abroad the fellow ship. He strapped pistols to himself as that he would be able to quickly kill. Many people that saw him thought that he was the devil!

Blackbeard was killed on November 22, 1718 in a fight with the Royal Navy of Britton. It took five gunshots and more then twenty sward cuts to kill him!

Calico Jack, also John Rackham:

Calico Jack was known by this name for the calico coats that he would ware. He has mostly been remembered by his work with two famous female pirates, Anne Bonny and Mary Read, and was only moderately successful in his life as a pirate.

Calico Jack was caught by the British Navy. It was much for the Navy easier then it normally would have normally been. Calico Jack's crew was drunk, so the fight was lost quickly. On November 16, 1720, Jack was sentenced to being hung. This was carried out the next day.

Mary Read:

Mary Read was a tomboy girl who dressed and acted like a man. She ran away at 13 to sail away abroad a ship. A few years later, she enlisted in the army. It was then that she fell in love with a fellow soldier. Mary Read was wedded to him, began to dress like women did, and opened a hotel with her husband. Later, when her husband died, she went back to sea. Calico Jack then captured her ship and she befriended him and Anne Bonny. She became a pirate along with her two friends.

Many Read was captured with Calico Jack and Anne Bonny by the British Navy. She and Anne escaped being hung due to their possibly feigned pregnancy. They were both imprisoned instead. Mary died, still in prison, not long after this from sickness.

Anne Bonny:

Anne Bonny was a courageous, independent and headstrong woman. Like Mary Read, Anne Bonny married a young soldier by the name of James Bonny. She was stolen from her husband by Calico Jack, resulting to her unlikely friendship with him. She, Mary Read and Calico Jack. Anne Bonny disguised herself as a man and joined Jack in a life of piracy.

Later, as described above, the three of them were captured, and she and Marry said that they were pregnant (which was possibly untrue), and their hanging was postponed and they were put in prison until they gave birth. Anne Bonny mysteriously disappeared and was never seen or heard from again.

-KittyLover8

Cat Facts

• Purebred cats normally have amber eyes.

• Cats can see well in just a sixth of the light humans need to see in.

• Cats always will blink when you touch their hyper-sensitive whiskers.

•Milk is not good for cats, most are allergic to it. Feeding milk to your cat can cause him or her to have diarrhea. Cats can have Soy milk, Almond milk, and Coconut milk without any allergic reactions.

• Unneutered male cats may be less affectionate and may spray household objects such as couches and chairs and may also develop cheek jowls and thick neck skin.

•The sound of bats fluttering their wings sounds like a drum roll to a cat's ears.

-KittyLover8
© 2012