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Subject: happy? – Dec 29 (N. Fernandez hanged) From: Abby Sale Date: 29 Dec 05 - 08:24 AM As y'all know, the great clipper, the Flying Cloud, was never involved in slave trade or piracy – every hour of its entire life was logged and the logs still exist. Further there was no other sailing ship since the 1600's of this name. (Launched April 15, 1851; went ashore June 19,1874 and was condemned and sold.) William Doerflinger suggests (Shantymen and Shantyboys, pp. 135, 334-35) that the ballad, "The Flying Cloud", could be inspired by a temperance tract purporting to be the confession of one of the crew of the notorious Benito de Soto. See Library of Congress Control Number: 42043486: "Dying declaration of Nicholas Fernandez, who with nine others was executed in front of Cadiz harbour, December 29, 1829 for piracy and murder on the high seas. Translated from a Spanish copy by Ferdinand Bayer. Annexed is a solemn warning to youth (and others) to beware of the baneful habit of intemperance"
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