A man starts out as a slave, rowing in the hull of a pirate ship. He is an intelligent man, and a hard worker, so eventually he manages to work his way up, until he becomes captain of the ship, and the leader of the pirates.

His ship is the terror of the high seas, and feared by all. But as time goes on, he begins to wish he was a simple slave again, and didn’t have to feel the shame, from the acts of his crew, and himself.

So he appoints one of his best men as the new captain. Soon he is made to walk the plank, and is eaten by sharks.

And the moral of the story is: Don’t strive to be good at something you don’t believe in!