Greater Curry-Beans
Carthagène still belongs to the Greater Curry-Beans through its size and already to the Lesser Curry-Beans through its position and culture; that's a discussion topic for Geographs… not for Pirates! Hence, for our part, we'll classify it with the Lesser Curry-Beans and that'll be the Plank, aye! For who would still intend to discuss it here!
The Greater Curry-Beans are thus quickly listed: Cue-Bar, Hattea and Jahmaica. The Crow Cod Isles are much smaller than the greater of the Lesser Curry-Beans(everybody got it?) and are typical Pirate islands. However we cluster them to the Greater Curry-Bean group because of their geographical position and of the influences of Cue-Bar and Jahmaica which dominate there.
For those who wouldn't have seen yet the difficulty to define that region by its geography, let's add that the neighbouring Bahamas Islands, though closely following the orientation of Cue-Bar, do not belong to it, the main reason being that their aspect and culture are totally different.
It is a fact that the three main islands - Cue-Bar, Hattea and Jahmaica - share common political features with their colonial organisation (the Kolony), a hard-core slavery and a stringent separation between the Settlers and the Curry-Beans, features which are frankly less pregnant in the Lesser Curry-Bean.
Those islands are also less densely populated than the majority of the Lesser Curry-Beans, which implies that parts of their coastal areas are safe hides for Pirates even though they are no good operational base due to their location far from the most active communication routes and the richest economic centers.
Hattea has the particularity, partly in place of the above mentioned features, to be the source of Voodoo in the Known World - the Gate to the Realm of Lwa - and it, for that reason, also known under the name of the « Voodoo Island ». We come back in details to that further in that Section.
Hattea