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Fortunes were made by respected Bahamian families turned liquor merchants, rum-running boat captains, notorious criminals, shady ladies, and the Bahamas government (which collected duty on temporarily imported drink).
By my reckoning, Charlton Heston has played: a CIA director, two prophets (Moses, twice, and Brigham Young), two saints (Thomas More and John the Baptist), an admiral, two generals (as well as six captains and three majors), a cardinal (Richelieu), two kings (Macbeth and Henry VIII), and three presidents of the United States (Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, and Franklin Roosevelt's voice).
The so-called Untouchables have greater opportunities now to rise on the social scale, a few of them becoming captains of industry or cabinet ministers, but it’s still their brethren who sweep the streets.
English sea captains also came to know the beautiful but deserted Bahamian islands during the 17th century.
The area around the south end of Columbus Avenue was once known as the Barbary Coast, a seedy and boisterous waterfront district, with sailors on shore leave haunting the bars and brothels, while their captains shanghaied drunken civilians to make up lost crew.