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Set on the side of a rocky ravine and incorporating several caves, the monastery was sacked by pirates, after which the community moved to higher ground and founded Gouvernétou.
Scores of lighthouses along Nova Scotia’s south shore trace a sawtoothed route of coves that over the ages offered shelter to pirates, rum-runners, and fishermen.
With the orang laut pirates as allies, Srivijaya controlled the Straits of Melaka (known in colonial times as Malacca), a key link between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea.
While Byzantine land was being divided, there was no one in control of the seas, so pirates raided towns on many of the islands.
And the forbidding, fortified cathedral that stands just inland from the waterfront Paseo de Almería was built during the 16th century, when Barbary pirates were terrorizing the coast (see page 18).