If you want to find out which was considered to be the wickedest city on earth, read the article and see some photos here.
Nowadays, Port Royal – to give this former hellhole a name – is a sleepy fishing area, almost lost in its remote position south of the Jamaican mainland.
“Wine and women drained their wealth to such a degree that… some of them became reduced to beggary. They have been known to spend two- or three thousand pieces of eight in one night; and one gave a strumpet five hundred to see her naked. They used to buy a pipe of wine, place it in the street, and oblige everyone that passed to drink.”
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The Wickedest City on Earth!
Jan 2 2010, 11:54 AM
