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Pirates of Madagascar
The LRB Podcast
The Myth of Ratzimala
There were lots of fantasies and panic about huge pirate navies amassing in the Indian Ocean. The Betsymis Seraka exists as the people that are still identified by the term Rat Similar. So something happened. And if it survived this confederate, I mean it's interesting that there's a confederation and what that implies about the way power is distributed. But if it depended on this one charismatic, apparently charismatic leader to hold it all together, was he more than a knight in despot or different from that?
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