St. Mary (Ile Sainte-Marie) is an island off the coast of Madagascar, small but with great potential appreciated by such famous pirates as Captain Kidd, Thomas Tew and Henry Every. It was an ideal location for raids on European and Asian merchant ships. Here, too, in 1695, Henry Every organized one of the largest pirate attacks in history – on the Fateh Mohammed Gang-i-sawai ships – in which he got a loot of over 200 million dollars worth! Legends say that on St. Mary’s Island they established a colony called Libertalia where pirates settled with their entire families and even formed a democratic government. How much truth is there – it is difficult to judge, but it is certain that the island created ideal conditions for living, because it was full of real treasures …