Samuel ("Black") Bellamy, beard down to his chest and black hair to his shoulders, looked every bit the pirate that he was. In the winter of 1716-17 near Cuba, Bellamy seized the Whydah, an English slave galley named for a West African port. He turned it into a carrier for tons of silver and gold but $ never lived to enjoy his hoard. The Whydah broke up in a storm off Cape Cod, its crew drunk on pirated wine, its cargo lost, its very existence doubted.
Not by Barry Clifford. A high school teacher turned treasure hunter, Clifford, 40, found the...
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