George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
When Admiral Perry opened Japan to Western commerce, he also opened it to Western piracy.
George tried his hand at robbing Japanese ships.
But all he ever got were boatloads of fish, swords, and kimonos.
The kimonos were too small to fit George or his shipmates, not that pirates wear kimonos.
The swords looked cool, but they were horribly fragile.
George went through a crate of them in a week.
Which left George with a lot of dead fish.
George left them in the captain’s bunk as a prank.