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The Chums would love the flavor this gives to the story 😁

There are always a handful going on at any given time, and they’re always good for a chuckle. Whether you want a Fate of Atlantis poster for $750, or a factory-sealed copy of Maniac Mansion NES for $3,999.99, this is the thread to document and admire the breathtaking nerve of people who were brought up incorrectly – sort of the evil twin of the bargain thread.

The Portuguese edition includes a glossary for both the nautical terms and and the concepts and words related to vodun. Very helpful. This is the Portuguese edition, although the title translation is awful, it's simply titled Voodoo in the Caribbean:

So I did finish the first chapter. I was impressed by the efficiency of the setup, seemingly beginning in medias res with the characters on the ship already mildly familiar with each other. The narration filling in the details of the journey so far via Chandagnac's disinterested memories, just as they happen to cross his mind and intersect with his present thoughts and motivations, felt very organic. The detail of Captain Chaworth's insurance gambit was teased early enough to be intriguing, revealed just in time to feel tragic in itself, before it was then made largely moot by the captain's untimely death. Chandagnac's backstory as a puppeteer is introduced in a similarly gradual manner, and the imagery of both his actually improvised puppetry with the napkins, as well as his imagined self-puppetry during the swordfight, is quite charming.

All right, I had to do some pretty significant rejiggering to make it work, but in the future if you install from CD images it will pick up and combine the two FullMonkeyMap files. Thanks for hanging in there while we sorted this confusing behavior out!