Anne Bonny in abundant treasure. Bonny took part in combat alongside the men, and the accounts of her exploits present her as competent, effective in combat, and respected by her shipmates. Governor Rogers had named her in a "Wanted Pirates" circular published in the continent's only newspaper, "The Boston News-Letter". Although Bonny was historically renowned as a Caribbean pirate, she never commanded a ship of her own. In October 1720, Rackham and his crew were attacked by a "King's ship", a sloop captained by Jonathan Barnet under a commission from Nicholas Lawes, Governor of Jamaica. Most of Rackham's pirates put up little
Ern Malley the Heide Circle fell for the hoax, and, enraptured by the poetry, devoted the next issue of "Angry Penguins" to Malley. The hoax was revealed soon after, resulting in a "cause célèbre" and the humiliation of Harris, who was put on trial, convicted and fined for publishing the poems on the grounds that they contained obscene content. "Angry Penguins" folded in 1946. In the decades that followed, the hoax proved to be a significant setback for modernist poetry in Australia. Since the 1970s, however, the Ern Malley poems, though known to be a hoax, became celebrated as a successful example