While one might take it as some secret anti-pirate propaganda piece, this goes beyond good and evil. As my prompt secretly coughed that the pirate’s interests where at threat and neither side being the good or bad, the diary entry really completes that cough and repaints the prompt. As to suggest the prompt was a mental diary while this is the mere physical diary on the other side. To that, I like that aspect.

To go further, I like how the Cap’n does have his wonders and moral interpretations. The Cap’n indeed is living in the phemenon of golden-age pirating; which is having major effects in the rising global economy and politics. But more-so that it chooses to treat them as human beings and not nusiances. Thus this ending could serve as a striking docx of its time (without the Young New English accent of course) and one that attempts to take a materialist approach. With such, it also reminds the reader of the immediacy of life with the cannon shots and ongoing battle.

Thus, though a conscious pro-Empire leaning. This is an unconscious damning of the current material conditions and societies, even if the Cap’n has no way to figure out how to effectively change it. Aye, I buy rum for that. Upvot’d and resteem’d.